Tennessee Williams' drama of class conflict and self-deception, A Streetcar Named Desire, opened on Broadway December 3, 1947. Stanley Kowalski was played by 23-year old Marlon Brando with Kim Hunter playing his wife, Stella. The play won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 and made Brando a star.
Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant on December 3, 1967 in a nine hour procedure in Capetown, South Africa. The recipient of the first transplant died 18 days later of pneumonia. By this year, some 70,000 hearts will have been transplanted with some functioning more than 20 years.
Source: Smithsonian magazine December 2007
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