Today In History:  23 July  [1965]   --  Baby born during a flight from Frankfurt to New York

Barbara Lufthansa Herzog was born on a Lufthansa flight from Germany to New York and was given the middle name, Lufthansa,  in honor of the airline. Her birth certificate bears a longitude and latitude reading instead of a location of birth as she was born at 39,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean.

To celebrate her 18th birthday, Lufthansa provided her with an all-expenses paid flight to West Germany (from Florida).

PHOTO: Boeing 707 of Lufthansa as used on the route to New York in the mid-1960's. This aircraft is a 707 at Hamburg Airport in 1984, shortly before the type was retired.

Photo Copyright ©  Perry Hoppe, GFDL 1.2 via Wikimedia.

Photo Attribution:  GFDL 1.2 via Wikimedia.