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July 25

3 sourced moments from July 25 in history: The First Commercial Electric Telegraph Was Demonstrated (1837); Louis Bleriot made the first airplane flight across the English Channel (1909); and Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, was born in 1978.

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3 things happened on July 25

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1978 Human Body & Mind · Medicine & Disease

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, was born in 1978

Louise Brown's 1978 birth made IVF real. One of the three pioneers behind it, Jean Purdy, was left off the official plaque for decades.

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1909 Technology · Transportation

Louis Bleriot made the first airplane flight across the English Channel

A French pilot in a flimsy monoplane crossed the Channel in about 37 minutes, shrinking the moat that had long protected Britain.

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1837 Technology · media-communication

The First Commercial Electric Telegraph Was Demonstrated

On a London railway line, two inventors flicked needles across nearly two kilometres and quietly ended the age of slow messages.

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