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December 3 1967 – Christiaan Barnard Performs the First Successful Human-to-Human Heart Transplant
by Vishul MalikJust two months after making the first successful kidney transplant in South Africa, cardiologist Christiaan Barnard did the unthinkable: at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, the surgeon successfully moved…