Today in photo history – 1967: First human heart transplant
performed  Heart transplant surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard is
shown after performing the first heart transplant on patient
Louis Washkansky on December 3, 1967 in Cape Town, South Africa.
Barnard headed a medical team that removed the heart of a
24-year-old woman who died in an auto accident and replaced the
diseased heart of the dying 55-year-old businessman. Washkansky
died 18 days later from double pneumonia, but his new heart
functioned normally until he died. (AP Photo)