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fiat_knox ([personal profile] fiat_knox) wrote2008-07-25 11:41 pm

On This Day (July 25, 2008) ...

This 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!

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