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2-3 December 1967: Dr Christian or Christiaan Barnard of the...

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2-3 December 1967

Dr Christian or Christiaan Barnard of the Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, performed the world's first heart-transplant operation; the patient, Louis Washkansky , survived for eighteen days.
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Cooper, David K. C. “Christiaan Barnard”. Guardian Weekly, 6–12 Sept. 2001, p. 14.
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