An American doctor tied a woman's Fallopian tubes for the first time during a Cesarean operation in Toledo, Ohio.

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Vasectomy introduced as an alternative to castration as a method of sterilizing males.

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Indiana reform school superintendent Harry Sharp used vasectomy for eugenic sterilization for the first time.

Indiana became the first state to enact a sterilization law.