February 19

Life is a very busy place and unless one is reminded of historic events, there is a tendency to overlook them. Consider the following and mark you calendars accordingly. On March 14, 1942, Drs John Bumstead and Orvan Hess first used penicillin to treat a patent. On April 12, 1955, Dr. Jonas Salk announced his success in creating a vaccine to fight polio. December 2, 1982 was witness to the successful implantation of the world’s first artificial heart into a human. In addition, on the 19th in 1912, prizes were first included in boxes of Cracker Jack.