Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically preserved.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
An iron lung respirator was used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital.
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
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 14th May 1796, English physician and scientist Edward Jenner purposefully infected 8-year James Phipps with cowpox.
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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