Science

Astronmy

Jan 17, 1982

Allan Hills A81005, the first lunar meteorite found on Earth, is discovered in the Allan Hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains by John Schutt and Ian Whillans during the ANSMET meteorite gathering expedition

Syzygy

Mar 10, 1982

all 9 planets align on the same side of the Sun.

Medicine

Jul 20, 1982

Allen Hill and colleagues at the University of Oxford develop a glucose biosensor

Medicine

Sep 21, 1982

First report of anti-human monoclonal antibody production.

HIV

May 20, 1983

First reports of HIV as a possible cause of AIDS, by independent virology teams led by Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo

Neptune

Jun 13, 1983

Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the solar system.

live birth

Feb 3, 1984

Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.

Physics

Jul 4, 1984

Peter Kramer[3] and Dan Shechtman[4] publish their discoveries of what will soon afterwards be named quasicrystals

computer science

Mar 15, 1985

The first commercial Internet domain name, in the top-level domain .com, is registered in the name symbolics.com by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts

first ozone hole discovered

May 16, 1985

Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole