Thursday, January 23, 1964: Heart transplant
Dr. James Hardy leads a team at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in transplanting a chimpanzee's heart into a human, who lived for about 90 minutes after the procedure. (In June 1963, Hardy had performed the first lung transplant; post: @).
* "The First Lung Transplant in Man (1963) and the First Heart Transplant in Man (1964)" (Hardy, Transplantation Proceedings, 1999): @
* "Doctors Hear First-Hand Heart Transplant Report" (Spokane Daily Chronicle, April 18, 1964): @
* Articles from Mississippi Medical News: @ and @
* "Open Heart: The Radical Surgeons Who Revolutionized Medicine" (David K.C. Cooper, 2010): @
* "Xeno: The Promise of Transplanting Animal Organs Into Humans" (Cooper and Robert P. Lanza, 2000): @
* Hardy entry from University of Mississippi Medical Center: @
* Hardy obituary (Associated Press, 2003): @
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- January 1964: Vietnam
- Thursday, January 30, 1964: 'A Change Is Gonna Come'
- Wednesday, January 29, 1964: 'Dr. Strangelove'
- Thursday, January 23, 1964: Heart transplant
- Thursday, January 23, 1964: National Museum of Sci...
- Thursday, January 23, 1964: 24th Amendment
- Monday, January 20, 1964: Sports Illustrated's fir...
- January 1964: 'Black holes'
- Thursday, January 16, 1964: Angioplasty
- Thursday, January 16, 1964: 'Hello, Dolly!'
- Wednesday, January 15, 1964: Whisky a Go Go
- Tuesday, January 14, 1964: 'The Problem We All Liv...
- Saturday, January 11, 1964: Smoking report
- Wednesday, January 8, 1964: State of the Union speech
- Friday, January 3, 1964: Barry Goldwater
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