Step 1 : Introduction to the question "5. 1978 marked the birth of a young girl named Louise Brown in the U.K. What was so notable about her birth?"
...1. She was the first child born in space 2. She was cloned 3. She was conceived by 'in vitro fertilization' 4. She was the last documented 'Thalidomide baby' Known as the world's first 'test-tube baby', Louise was born July 25, 1978 at Oldham General Hospital in Greater Manchester, weiging 5 pounds, 12 ounces. She married in 2004 and became a mother in her own right two years later (by natural means). The horrors of Thalidomide were long past by then, while cloning and space babies were still years away.