Timeline Friday 26 June 1896

Events on Friday 26 June 1896 2

• 1896 – 1952 Hugh Cairns Port Pirie, Australia The Australian neurosurgeon who attended Lawrence after the crash. He went on to organise mobile neurosurgical units in the Second World War and to run the trial that proved penicillin worked on head wounds.
• 1896 Hugh Cairns born in Port Pirie Port Pirie, Australia Son of a carpenter, in a lead-smelting town on the South Australian coast. He spent his early childhood in Riverton, where he had all his primary schooling.