July 9th, 2025
In Provident Hospital on the South Side of Chicago, IL, surgeon Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful open-heart surgery. Dr. Williams completed the operation on a young man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital in Chicago -- a hospital which Dr. Williams had founded -- with a stab wound. Williams repaired the wound with the use of sutures.
Source: www.aaregistry.org/story/black-surgeon-performs-the-first-sucessful-open-heart-surgery-in-america/
