On This Day (July 25, 2008) ...
Jul. 25th, 2008 11:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiat_knoxThis taken from the BBC's website:-
• 1939: Nazi Germany begins the systematic 'euthanasia' of disabled children, killing many thousands.
• 1968: All forms of artificial contraception are condemned by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical 'Humanae Vitae'.
• 1978: Britain's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born at Oldham General Hospital in Lancashire.
Happy Birthday, Louise, for proving those historical bastards wrong!
• 1939: Nazi Germany begins the systematic 'euthanasia' of disabled children, killing many thousands.
• 1968: All forms of artificial contraception are condemned by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical 'Humanae Vitae'.
• 1978: Britain's first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born at Oldham General Hospital in Lancashire.
Happy Birthday, Louise, for proving those historical bastards wrong!
