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41st year  -  N° 77                 Wednesday, 18 March 2026         Antwerpen		
Down, down, deeper and down
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Wednesday 8th of October 1958
68 years, 6 months and 19 days ago




43-year-old heart patient Arne Larsson receives the first pacemaker implanted by cardiac surgeon Åke Senning in Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden.

Larsson lived for another forty-three years and during that time went through twenty-six pacemakers. The first device lasted only a few hours.