Today is World Embryologists Day. A day to celebrate the scientists in reproductive medicine.
This day was chosen because it is the birthday of Louise Brown, the first IVF baby.
Louise Joy Brown was born at Oldham General Hospital, Oldham, by planned Caesarean section delivered by registrar John Webster.She weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces (2.608 kg) at birth.
Louise Joy Brown (born 25 July 1978) is an English woman known for being the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
Edwards is the father of Test Tube Baby.
Edwards Earned The Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2010. For his pioneering work on in (IVF) in the 1950s.
Events:
1943– World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1944– World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war.
1946– Nuclear weapons testing: Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll.
1983 – Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese
2007– Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female president.
2010– WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.