Montefiore Health System welcomed the first newborn baby to be delivered in the New Year within its network at midnight on Jan. 1, 2025.

 

Hospital officials said, “Montefiore couldn’t be happier to kick off the New Year with the birth of baby boy, Mauryce Edwards-Williams at 12:00:00, to proud parents, mom, Vanessa McKayhan and dad, Devin Edwards-Williams, from Bronx, NY!”

They said Baby Mauryce weighs 7 pounds, 6.5 oz, and is 20 inches long.  The new baby boy was born at Jack D. Weiler Hospital at Montefiore, located at 1825 Eastchester Road in the Morris Park section of The Bronx.

 

Norwood News offers our heartfelt congratulations to the family on their new bundle of joy!

 

According to Wikipedia, on this day hundred years ago, on Jan. 1, 1925, Norway’s capital, Christiania, was renamed Oslo, and in the Rose Bowl, the unbeaten and untied (9-0-0) Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated the unbeaten (7-0-1) Stanford University Indians, 27 to 10, before a crowd of 60,000 people in Pasadena.

On the same day, the unbeaten (8-0-1) Penn Quakers visited the unbeaten (7-0-2) California Golden Bears in a postseason game at Berkeley, with California winning, 14 to 0, before 60,000 people.

 

On November 22, Stanford and California had played to a 20-20 tie. Later in the year, economics professor Frank G. Dickinson of the University of Illinois ranked Notre Dame the best team of the 1924 season, followed by California as part of his “Dickinson ratings” that would later be recognized by the NCAA as determinative of a college football national champion.

Elsewhere in the world, on Jan. 1, 1925, according to Wikipedia, a small contingent of U.S. Marines arrived at Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China, to patrol the vicinity of the university and protect Americans there from further looting, and Costa Rica decided to withdraw from the League of Nations over the League’s failure to address regional disputes.

 

On the same day, the states of Aleppo and Damascus were united into the State of Syria, and Paul Bomani, the first foreign minister of present day Tanzania, a politician and ambassador; was born in Musoma, Tanganyika Territory, then a colonial territory in East Africa administered by the United Kingdom in various guises from 1916 until 1961.

 

Meanwhile, according to history.com, on Jan. 1, 1863, former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, on Jan. 1, 1892, the first immigrants arrived at Ellis Island, on Jan. 1, 1958, singer Johnny Cash played San Quentin State Prison, and on Jan. 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement came into effect.