January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
October 17 – The British House of Lords decides the legal case of Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority[11] which sets the significant precedent of Gillick competence, i.e. that a child of 16 or under may be competent to consent to contraception or – by extension – other medical treatment without requiring parental permission or knowledge.
Publication of a classified bibliography of 3500 reports on controlled trials in perinatal medicine published since 1940.[12]
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