1967 Technology &
Gadgets
Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee on a launching pad test at Cape Kennedy, Florida. The specific cause was never determined, the fire was blamed upon design flaws in the command module: highly-pressurized 100%-oxygen atmosphere, wiring, plumbing , flammable materials in the cockpit, the hatch release and their flight suits.
South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard does the first human heart transplant. Recipient, 55 year old Louis Washkansky survived 18 days before he succumbed to pneumonia.
The first Boeing 737 rolls out of the production line to become the most prolific passenger jet in the world.
 The first pulsar star was discovered by astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish (who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974). They named the star LGM-1 the acronym for "little green men". The electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves was so constant and so precise extraterrestrial notions in motion at the time.
DNA created in a test tube
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