WORLD’S FIRST TEST-TUBE QUADRUPLETS

The world’s first test tube quadruplets (four children) born at a single birth) were born on January 6, 1984 at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. According to Dr Andrew Spiers, leader of the surgical team, it was the first time the mother had carried all four successfully.

BRAILLE SYSTEM OF WRITING

Louis Braille, blind from the age of three, was first a pupil, then a teacher in the Blind children’s institution in Paris, France. In 1829, at the age of 20 he published an adaptation of a system of embossed writing invented by Captain Charles Barbier, a French Military Officer. In 1834, Braille modified the system. In 1854 Braille system was officially recognized.