South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant.
10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists
10th June 2017
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic acid.
On the 11th March 1918 the first confirmed case of what was to become known as Spanish Flu was identified at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, a huge military facility in Kansas.
A potential diphtheria epidemic in Alaska was avoided after a dogsled relay transported vials of antitoxin 674 miles in five and a half days in “Great Race of Mercy”.
Röntgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes at the University of Würzburg when he discovered the new ‘invisible light’ on 8 November 1895.
On the 28th September 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming laid for the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine when he discovered the world’s first antibiotic.
On the 5th July 1948, healthcare provision in the UK was nationalized when the National Health Service was launched.
Alexis St. Martin, who had been shot in the stomach, was first treated by US Army surgeon William Beaumont who became known as the ‘Father of Gastric Physiology’.
On the 14th May 1796, English physician and scientist Edward Jenner purposefully infected 8-year James Phipps with cowpox.
16th December 1914: German Navy attack Scarborough
16th December 2018
14th December 1911: Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
14th December 2018
13th December 902: Æthelwold’s revolt against Edward the Elder is defeated
13th December 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017