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Encyclopedia > January 17, 2004

January 17, 2004

  • Planned NASA servicing missions for the Hubble Space Telescope are cancelled. Safety concerns are cited as the main reason behind the decision. [1][2]
  • Human cloning: Fertility expert Dr. Panos Zavos claims to have successfully transplanted a two week old embryo into a 35 year old woman. He said he had not done the act anywhere where "the spirit of the law" was against such a procedure. [3]
  • George Papandreou of Greece promised that he will suggest to sign a mutual agreement with Turkey for lowering their defense military expenses. [4] (Greek).
  • Protesters call for resignation of German Federal Police chief Ulrich Kersten: about 6,000 people demonstrates against moving Germany's Federal Police (BKA) headquarters from Wiesbaden to Berlin. [5]
January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in orbit around the Earth. ... Human Cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of an existing, or previously existing human or growing cloned tissue from that individual. ... Dr. Panagiotis Zavos[1] (Παναγιώτης Ζαβός, or Panos Zavos, Πάνος Ζαβός) is a Greek-Cypriot geneticist from Cyprus. ... For George Papandreous grandfather, also called George Papandreou, see George Papandreou, senior. ... Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ... Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ...

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