Births on April 1

Joseph Murray

Born on April 1, 1919

Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)

Joseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American plastic surgeon who performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954.Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning "organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease."

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Events on 1919

5 Jan

Nazi Party
The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded.
23 Mar

Italian Fascism
In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
4 May

Treaty of Versailles
May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
19 May

Turkish War of Independence
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence.
29 May

General relativity
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.

Births on April 1

Joseph Murray

Born on April 1, 1919

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Events on 1919

Nazi Party

Italian Fascism

Treaty of Versailles

Turkish War of Independence

General relativity