Good morning.
Our week ends with a high of thirty, and a small amount of snow, of about an inch or two. There wil be 9h 3m of daylight, and 10h 8m of sunlight, with a full moon.
On 12.28.1981, America’s first so-called test tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was born:
For the first time, a ”test-tube” baby, conceived in a laboratory dish, has been born in an American hospital. Elizabeth Jordan Carr, weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces and described as ”perfectly healthy,” was delivered yesterday morning at Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Va.
The birth, which came two weeks ahead of schedule, brings to at least 15 the number of babies born in this manner. The rest were in Britain and Australia, although one was born to American parents in England. About 100 women have become pregnant through the same procedure, five of them in the United States.
At least five American clinics are treating infertile women in this way, but so far with meager success. Nevertheless, reliability seems to be improving rapidly. The time when it becomes standard treatment for several causes of infertility may be drawing near.
On this day in 1938, a moment from the long and checkered career of Joe McCarthy:
1938 – McCarthy Declares Candidacy for Judgeship
On this date future senator Joseph McCarthy announced his candidacy for the Wisconsin 10th Circuit Court judgeship, a position that had been held for 24 years by Edgar V. Werner. The 30-year-old McCarthy used Werner’s age against him, claiming that Werner was 73 while secretly knowing he was 66. In the election, held in April of the following year, McCarthy earned 15,160 votes to Werner’s 11,154. Although McCarthy’s campaign tactics and spending practices were investigated, he was cleared of wrong-doing. [Source: Legal Affairs]
Google-a-Day poses a question on history & cartography: “What famous Alexandrian was responsible for the most popular map printed from movable type in the fifteenth century?”