Blake Edwards, director of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) and The
Pink Panther (1963) died from complications of Pneumonia
Wednesday evening. He was 88.

Dr. Christian Barnard, along with a team of Cardiac
Surgeons,  performed the world’s first successful
human heart transplant in Cape Town, South Africa. 
The patient, Louis Washkansky, a 54-year-old grocer
survived for 18 days after the operation and died of
Pneumonia.

 
             The transplant operation in progress.