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.

The comic actor best known for his roles in AIRPLANE
and THE NAKED GUN film series was being treated for
Pneumonia at a hospital near his home in Florida.