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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1998, Nov. 20 | |
| Zarya, the first module of a planned international space station, was launched into orbit by Russia. On Dec. 4 the U.S. sent Unity, the second module, into space to join the Russian module in the first international connection, from which the space station was planned to expand. | 1 |
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| Two separate organizations, the internationally funded Human Genome Project and the U.S.-based Celera Genomics Corp., jointly announced that each had compiled a working map of the human genome. The achievement was hailed as a revolution for science and medicine and the dawn of a new era for human biology. | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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