The first documented blood transfusion took place using sheep blood in a teenage boy.
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The Philadelphia Zoo opened. At the time, it was the only zoo in the 'New World.'
The first-ever cloned horse was born in a natural delivery.
The state of California became the first to ban fur products.
The red robin was officially named Britain's National Bird.
Julius Wolff supplied the first canned sardines from Maine, USA.
