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Events on Friday 26 October 1984 1
1984Baby Fae receives baboon heart transplantFirst infant xenotransplantSurgeons at Loma Linda University Medical Center transplanted a baboon heart into a newborn known as Baby Fae, born with a fatal heart defect. She survived 21 days, and the case sparked wide debate over the ethics of animal-to-human organ transplantation.