1963

• The Beatles
• Australian Drug Evaluation Committee meet first at Sydney's RPA
• Lomotil
• John Eccles shares Nobel Peace Prize for work on synapse
• MIMS makes a modest mark in a year that was very memorable in other respects.

1964

• Zidovudine (AZT) synthesised
• Sydney Gladesville Bridge opens - World's longest concrete arch
• US Surgeon General first reports smoking may be hazardous to health
• Indocid

1965

• APC 'celebrated' in comedy review of A Cup of Tea, A Bex, and a Good Lie Down
• Lasix

1966

• Insulin first synthesised in China
• Isordil
• Australian money goes decimal

1967

• NH & MRC recommends Phenacetin off the PBS
• First national polio immunisation with Salk's oral Sabin
• Christian Barnard - World's first heart transplant, Cape Town

1968

• Death of Howard Florey
• Epilim>
• Musical Hair opens on Broadway

1969

• First case of HIV/AIDS in US (confirmed 1984)
• Dr. Denton Cooley - first temporary artificial heart

1970

• Ventolin first launched in Australia
• Septrin

1971

• Brufen
• World's first microprocessor - Intel 4004

1972

• First paper on recombinant DNA marks birth of modern molecular biology
• Tobicin
• Last major smallpox epidemic in Europe

1973

• Sydney Opera House officially opens
• First handheld mobile phone call made - in New York

1974

• Amoxil
• 40,000 year old Mungo Man uncovered at Lake Mungo, NSW
• Rubik's Cube invented

1975

• Detailing biosynthesis of cholesterol wins Nobel Peace Prize fir Comforth and Prelog
• Microgynin 30
• Lime disease first recognised at Lyme, Connecticut
• Full-time colour TV launched

1976

• Cray - 1, first supercomputer
• Sinemet
• First known outbreak of Ebola virus in Zaire
• Full-time colour TV launched

1977

• Legionnaires' disease bacterium identified
• MIMS Annual launched as a full PI reference for doctors & pharmacists
• Bee Gees release soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever
• Canesten

1978

• Synthetic insulin invented (Humulin in Aust 1986)
• Madopar
• World's first test tube baby is born in Oldham, UK
• Diprosone
• Sydney's first Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras

1979

• Eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, the first and only human disease driven to extinction
• Rocaltrol
• Sony Walkman first on sale in Japan

1980

• GPS time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC
• Pac-Man (best-selling arcade game of all time) released in Japan
• Endone

1981

• First recognised AIDS cases
• Brufen
• Original IBM PC released in US
• First Space Shuttle launch: Columbia

1982

• RBT introduced in NSW
• Capoten
• First CDs released in Germany

1983

• Australia II wins America's Cup
• FDA approves Immunosuppressant cyclosporine - leads to transplantation revolution
• Anafranil

1984

• Nicorette
• First Apple Mac
• Medicare begins in Australia

1985

• DNA first used in criminal case
• Diaformin
• Wreck of Titanic located

1986

• Humulin
• Chernobyl disaster
• Renitec

1987

• AZT approved by FDA in HIV/AIDS
• The Simpsons first appears as a series if shorts

1988

• U.S. Surgeon General states addictive properties of nicotine similar to heroin, cocaine
• Plendil
• Australia's Bicentenary Year
• Pepcidine

1989

• "Tank Man" defies Tiananmen Square massacre
• Gaby Kennard first Australian woman to fly around the world
• 13 killed by earthquake in Newcastle NSW

1990

• Hubble Space Telescope launched
• Zocor
• First broadcast of HDTV - World Cup
• Prozac

1991

• World Wide Web announced
• Dissolution of Soviet Union
• Pulmicort
• MIMS Assist launched

1992

• Fluvax Australian discovery
• Neupogen first biological agent, revolutionalises cancer treatment - recombinant DNA technology
• Coversyl

1993

• Lamisil
• Nelson Mandela South Africa's first black president

1994

• Wollemi Pine discovered alive
• AOL offers first easy access to World Wide Web for average person

1995

• First search engine Yahoo!
• First computer animated feature film "Toy Story"

1996

• Britain announces Bovine spongiform encephalopathy likely transmitted to people
• MIMS on Disk launched - 10 floppy disks

1997

• MIMS Online launched
• Revealed: adult sheep named Dolly successfully cloned, born July 1996
• Lipitor

1998

• Losec
• eMIMS on CD ROM launched
• Fosamax

1999

• Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan, Italy after 22 years restoration

2000

• Herceptin
• Sydney Olympics "best Olympic Games ever"

2001

• World's first self-contained artificial heart implant
• Release of the iPod
• Wikipedia launches

2002

• Nexium
• MIMS on PDA launched
• Terrorists bomb nightclubs in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and injuring over 300

2003

• WHO issues a global alert on SARS
• Human Genome Project completed - 99% genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy
• Pegasys

2004

• Adam Elliot's Harvie Krumpet wins Oscar for Animated Short Film
• Facebook
• 4th Transit of Venus since event Cook observed in 1769

2005

• Nobel Prize for Medicine - Australians Robin Warren, and Barry Marshall show stomach ulcers caused by H pylori
• Gardasil

2006

• Ian Frazer Australian of the Year, discoverer of HPV vaccine

2007

• First iPhone
• Australia ratifies the Kyoto Protocol on climate change

2008

• First operations using bionic eyes, London
• Champix

2009

• Outbreak of H1N1 flu strain ("swine flu"), deemed global pandemic, first thus designated since Hong Kong flu of 1967-1968
• MIMS Mobile launched

2010

• First iPad
• WHO organisation declares H1N1 influenza pandemic over
• 2010 iMIMS Launched

2011

• World's first artificial organ transplant achieved, using artificial windpipe coated with patient's stem cells
• Brilinta

2012

• CERN announces discovery of new particle consistent with the Higgs boson - so called "God particle"
• Australian skydiver Felix Baumgartner first person to break sound barrier without any machine assistance - from 39km

2013

• First time lab grown meat made from muscle stem-cells has been cooked and tasted
• Peter Higgs & Francois Englert awarded Nobel Peace Prize in Physics fir discovery of Higgs Boson
• New eMIMS launched