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The first commercial sperm bank opens.

Date: 1977

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California Cryobank is founded by Cappy Rothman, a fertility specialist, and Charles Sims, a pathologist, who want to find a solution for the, "traumatic effect of sterilization on men" (California Cryobank, n.d.).