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Fifty years ago – on 3 December 1967 – the heart of a 26-year-old road accident victim, Denise Darvall, started to beat inside the chest of a 54-year-old grocer, Louis Washkansky.
News of the first human-to-human heart transplant, led by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, made headlines around the world.
Journalists and film crews flooded into Cape Town’s Groote Schuur
This post was originally posted on BBC News. Read the rest of the story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42170023.
