Timeline Monday 28 December 1981

Events on Monday 28 December 1981 1

• 1981 First American test-tube baby is born Elizabeth Carr born via IVF in Virginia Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first child conceived through in vitro fertilization in the United States, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on 28 December 1981. She was the world's fifteenth IVF baby, following the technique's introduction in Britain in 1978. Her birth marked the establishment of IVF as a viable fertility treatment in the US.