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The liver of 34-year-old Thomas (name changed) living in America was not working properly. Bleeding was happening in the inner parts of his liver. When Thomas underwent a liver test, it was discovered that he had both hepatitis B and AIDS. During this time Thomas had an accident in which there were many wounds in the spleen and later his spleen also had to be removed. This is the year 1989.
Thomas was advised by the doctors for a liver transplant, but Thomas had so many diseases that no doctor was ready to do the transplant. Exhausted, Thomas came to Pittsburgh in January 1992. At this time his condition was deteriorating day by day due to jaundice, liver problem, hepatitis and AIDS.
Eventually Pittsburgh doctor Thomas Starzl and doctor John Fung agreed to do a liver transplant. Both these doctors were famous for organ transplant in America at that time. Both the doctors decided that Thomas would be given a langur liver transplant.
Doctor Thomas Starzl.
At that time it was believed that the HIV (AIDS) virus had no effect on the liver of the langur. Along with this, many research was also being done in different medical institutes regarding the liver transplant of langur. A 15-year-old langur was brought from the Southwest Foundation for Research and Education in Texas. This langur and Thomas had the same blood group.
After a complicated operation, the team of doctors transplanted the langur’s liver into Thomas’s body on this day i.e. June 28. After 5 days Thomas was started feeding and running. After three weeks, the weight of the liver also increased and the liver started functioning normally.
About a month later, Thomas was discharged from the hospital. Till this time this liver transplant was successful. The whole medical world was considering it as a great achievement. However, this was not the first transplant from animals to humans. Even before this, organs from pigs and langurs were transplanted into humans, but most of them died within a month of transplant.
Thomas reached home from the hospital, but after 21 days the infection spread throughout Thomas’s body and the kidney stopped working. He was admitted back to the hospital and dialysis was started. The infection gradually increased in Thomas’s body and 70 days after the transplant, Thomas died of brain haemorrhage.
After that, in January 1993, a 62-year-old man was transplanted to the liver of a langur, but he also died 26 days later.
1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria
King William IV of Britain died on 20 June 1837. King William had no children, so Victoria was made Queen of Britain. He was coronated on this day in the year 1838. At the age of only 19, the command of Britain came in the hands of Victoria.
Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward. He was born on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace. She married Prince Albert on 10 February 1840. Both have 9 children and these children have been married in different places across Europe, due to which Victoria is also called ‘Grandmother of Europe’.
Queen Victoria.
She was the Queen of Britain for 63 years. During his tenure, Britain made progress in every field and emerged as a world power. It is said that the queen ruled a quarter of the world during her tenure. His entire tenure is called the Victorian era. In the year 1876, the British Parliament also made her the Empress of India. She remained the Empress of India till 1901.
When her husband died in 1861, she was so deeply shocked that since then she started wearing black clothes like a widow all her life. For this reason she is also called ‘The Widow of Windsor’.
The Queen died in 1901, and with this the Victorian era also ended.
1965: The first commercial phone call was made from satellite
On 6 April 1965, NASA launched a communication satellite named ‘Early Bird’ into space. Early Bird was the world’s first commercial communications satellite. This satellite provided communication service between North America and Europe.
It was built by Hughes Aircraft Company and this satellite could connect 240 telephones at a time. It was through this that the first telephone call was made. Its age was 18 months but it worked for more than 2 years.
NASA engineers working on the ‘Early Bird’ satellite.
It was reactivated in 1990 on the 25th anniversary of its launch. Later its name was changed to Intelsat-1 and at present it is satellite inactive. NASA sent many satellites of this series into space, which were used to enhance communication technology.
For what other reasons is the day of June 28 remembered in history?
2012: Pakistan handed over Surjit Singh, who was in Pakistan’s jail for three decades, to India. Surjit was accused by Pakistan of spying.
2009: Gay Pride Parade was organized in different cities of India to legalize homosexuality.
1926: Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merged the two companies to form Mercedes-Benz.
1921: Former Prime Minister of India PV Narasimha Rao was born in Andhra Pradesh.
1894: The American Congress declared the first Monday of September Labor Day. Since then every year this day is celebrated as Labor Day in America.
1846: Adolf Sachs patented the instrument saxophone.
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