1997 In Science

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The year 1997 in Science and Technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

February 13 - Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery .

October 30 - First successful test flight of the ESA 's Ariane 5 Expendable Launch System

AVIATION

BIOLOGY

February 22 - In Roslin , Scotland , scientists announce that an adult Sheep named Dolly had been successfully Clone d and was born in July 1996

March 4 - United States President Bill Clinton bars federal funding for any research on Human Cloning

July 10 - In London , scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neandertal skeleton which support the Out Of Africa Theory of Human Evolution placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago

November 19 - In Carlisle, Iowa , Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to Septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive

COMPUTER SCIENCE

May 11 - IBM 's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov , the first time a computer defeated a Chess grand master in a match. Deep Blue had defeated Kasparov before, but had never won a match against him.

GEOLOGY

MEDICINE

TECHNOLOGY

October 15 - The first supersonic land speed record is set by the ThrustSSC team from the United Kingdom

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