First Human Heart Transplant: Barnard Makes History in Cape Town
Christiaan Barnard injected potassium into Denise Darvall's heart to declare her dead and immediately transplanted it into Louis Washkansky, launching an era of life-extending surgery despite the patient succumbing to pneumonia just eighteen days later. This bold leap from Cape Town sparked a global revolution in medicine that quickly yielded survivors like Philip Blaiberg, who lived nineteen months with his new heart, proving the procedure could extend human life far beyond the initial shock.
December 3, 1967
59 years ago
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What Else Happened on December 3
en Antioquía (Turquía) a la noche sucede un terremoto de magnitud 7,5 en la escala sismológica de Richter (intensidad de XI en la escala de Mercalli), dejando u…
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en Qum, Semnan, Damghán y Jorasán (Irán) sucede un terremoto que deja un saldo de 48 690 muertos.
Pope John X crowned Berengar I as Holy Roman Emperor, formalizing a desperate alliance to expel Saracen raiders from their fortified base on the Garigliano Rive…
أبو علي المنصور يتولى الخلافة ويتخذ لقب الآمر بأحكام الله، ليكون بذلك الخليفة الفاطمي العاشر.
In L’Aquila richtet ein Erdbeben Schäden an – die erste derartige Katastrophe in Dokumenten der Stadt.
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