Where was Christiaan Barnard born?
Beaufort West
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Answer
Beaufort West, a town in South Africa's Western Cape province, holds the distinction of being the birthplace of Christiaan Barnard, the renowned cardiac surgeon who performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967. Barnard's groundbreaking achievement revolutionized the field of medicine and earned him international acclaim.
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