World Embryologists Day

• 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.

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