On December 28, 1981, the first American "test-tube baby,"
a child born as a result of in-vitro fertilization,was born in
Norfolk, Virginia. Considered a miracle at the time, births
like that of Elizabeth Jordan Carr are now common.
Elizabeth Jordan Carr is 42 years young today.
On August 5, 2010, Carr gave birth to her first child, Trevor
James Comeau (below). He was conceived without the
assistance of Artificial Reproductive Technology.
A 13yr Old Melanie Griffith With Her Pet Lion Neil (1971)
She began her career in the 1970s, appearing
in several independent thriller films before
achieving mainstream success in the mid-
1980s.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Mary Badham (71) is a actress who portrayed Jean Louise
"Scout" Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), for which
she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress. At the time, Badham (aged 10) was
the youngest actress ever nominated in this category.
Episode: The Bewitchin Pool, Release Date: 6-19-1964
Near the end of a weeklong national salute to Americans who
served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
was dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by
thousands of veterans of the conflict.
The long-awaited memorial was a simple V-shaped black-granite
wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans who died
in the conflict, arranged in order of death, not rank, as was
common in other memorials.
The designer of the memorial was Maya Lin, a Yale University architecture student who entered a nationwide competition to
create a design for the monument.
Designer and sculptor Maya Ying Lin (64)
The Chinese/American was born in Athens, Ohio.
Maya Lin was still an undergraduate at Yale University
when she beat out more than 1,400 competitors in a
competition to design the memorial.
