Medical history was made on December 3, 1967 when at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carried out the first heart transplant on a human.
The operation lasted nine hours using a team of thirty people. The patient, Louis Washkansky, was 55 year old grocer, suffering from […]

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Barbados is situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. It gained its independence from the United Kingdom on November 30, 1966.
At roughly 13° North of the equator and 59° West of the prime meridian, the country lies in the southern Caribbean region, where its considered […]

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The Warren Commission, was established on November 29, 1963, by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Their 888-page final report was presented to President Johnson on September 24,1964 and made public three days later. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the […]

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Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 was a flight from Montreal/Dorval Airport to Toronto International Airport on November 29, 1963. The aircraft was a Douglas Commercial DC-8-54CF, registered CF-TJN. Several minutes after takeoff in poor weather, the plane crashed near Ste-Thérèse-de-Blainville, Quebec, Canada, killing all 118 people on board: 111 passengers and 7 crew members.
The crash […]

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Alouette 2 was a Canadian research satellite launched at 4h48 UTC on November 29, 1965 by a Thor Agena rocket with Explorer 31 from the Western test range at Vandenberg AFB in California. It was just like its predecessor Alouette 1, and Explorer 31, designed to explore the ionosphere.
The name “Alouette” came from the French […]

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Mariner 4 was the fourth in a series of spacecraft used for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface.
It was launched November 28, 1964 and captured the first images of another planet ever returned from deep space; their […]

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Lynn Marshall better known under the stage name of Anna Nicole Smith, was an American model and television personality. She first gained popularity in Playboy, becoming the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She modeled for clothing companies, including Guess jeans. She starred in her own reality TV show, The Anna Nicole Show.
Born and raised in […]

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The Diamant rocket was the first exclusively French expendable launch system and at the same time the first satellite launcher not built by either USA or USSR. As such it is the main predecessor of all subsequent European launcher projects.
It was derived from the military program Pierres precieuses which means gemstones and included the five […]

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Amy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her Contemporary Christian Music and pop music, and a New York Times Bestselling author, TV personality, and occasional actress.
Grant made her debut in 1977 as a teenager, and scored her first number-one Christian radio hit two years later. In 1982, she released her breakthrough album, […]

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Lee Harvey Oswald was the accused assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested on suspicion of killing Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit and later connected to the assassination of President Kennedy.
Oswald denied […]

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