The world’s first bionic heart was implanted in a human in 1994, but the patient died nine months later. Other events include the successful test of an ICBM by the Soviet Union in 1957, the first televised Major League Baseball game in 1939, and the birth of Mother Teresa in 1910.
The world’s first bionic heart was surgically implanted in a human. (1994) A 62-year-old man named Arthur Cornhill received his heart in Great Britain. The surgery was a success, but Cornhill died nine months later of kidney failure.
The Soviet Union announces the successful first test of an ICBM. (1957) The nation began the project in 1953. The United States is said to have achieved its own successful ICBM two years later.
The Nazis entered Ukraine and rounded up 2,000 Jews to be sent to the Belzec extermination camp. (1942) The Nazis killed 500 sick people and children on the spot.
Major League Baseball’s first televised game was broadcast. (1939) An experimental television station, W2XBS, showed a Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers double-header at Ebbets Field.
Betty Friedan led women of the new feminist movement in the Women’s Strike for Equality. (1970) The strike was more of a rally to celebrate the passage of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution, which occurred on this day in 1920. At the time, it was the largest gathering of women in US history. The following year, the US Congress declared this day annual Women’s Equality Day.
The first news was sent by telegraph. (1858) The telegraph was patented in the United States by Samuel Morse, the developer of Morse code. He sent the first telegraph of any kind to the United States in 1838. In 1861, the United States was connected coast to coast by telegraph, which replaced the Pony Express.
The first German headed into space. (1978) Sigmund Jahn took part in the Soviet Union’s Intercosmos program and traveled aboard the Soyuz 31 spacecraft.
Michelangelo began work on the Pietà. (1498) The French cardinal Jean de Billheres commissioned the statue, which Michelangelo finished in less than two years, for his funeral monument. It is now located in Vatican City at St. Peter’s Basilica.
The first recorded successful ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia, was made. (1778) Triglav is also the highest mountain in the Julian Alps. The ascent of the 9,396-foot (2,864-meter) mountain was accomplished by explorers Lovrenc Willomitzer, Matija Kos, Luka Korosec and Stefan Rozic.
Mother Teresa is born. (1910) she was born in Skopje, Macedonia. Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun in India, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in India and became known for her service to those who were sick or dying.
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