The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, was born in Norfolk, Virginia.
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The Westminster Abbey in London was consecrated.
President Richard Nixon signed the US Endangered Species Act into law.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope began the multi-day process of unfurling its sunshield.
Vladimir Putin signed a law banning the US adoption of Russian children.
Scarlett Johansson made her debut on Broadway.
