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* '''October 6''' – [[Star]] "51 Pegasi " is discovered to be the first major star (apart from the [[Sol|Earth's Sun ]] to have a [[planet ]] (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.  * [[Khan Noonien Singh]]'s "Chrysalis Island" is attacked, where the [[Augment]] leader had bred a lethal bacteria for wide-spread use against the world. The island is destroyed, and Khan flees.  * The "Big Ear" at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory ends its full-time search for extraterrestrial intelligence radio survey, having run continuously for 22 years, beginning in [[1973]]. * Project Phoenix begins looking for extraterrestrial transmissions using the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, the largest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere.