Just down a ways from where I live today, Britain’s first heart transplant was performed in 1968 at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London. It was the tenth heart transplant ever to have been done in the entire world since Dr. Christian Barnard achieved it in Cape Town, South Africa just a few months earlier in December 1967.
Amazing considering that artificial hearts are routinely used now to keep patients alive until they receive a live organ transplant. As of June 2003, 66,353 heart transplants have been performed worldwide.
Via BBC On This Day