Denton Cooley 1960s. He and his colleagues worked on developing new artificial heart valves from 1962 to 1967; during that period, mortality for heart valve transplants fell from 70% to 8%. In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart designed by Domingo Liotta in a man, Haskell Karp, who lived for 65 hours. The next year, in 1970, "he performed the first implantation of an artificial heart in a human when no heart replacement was immediately available." Cooley's interests included basketball, which he played in high school and as a three-year letterman for the UT men's basketball
1969 Copa Argentina Final 1969 Copa Argentina Final The 1969 Copa Argentina Finals were the final two-legged tie that decided the champion of the 1969 Copa Argentina. The finals were contested in two-legged home-and-away format between Boca Juniors and Atlanta. Both matches were played in Estadio Gasómetro in Buenos Aires. Boca Juniors won the first match 3-1, and Atlanta won the second match 1-0, but in the aggregate Boca Juniors won 3-2 to claim their first Copa Argentina Title. The champions was automatically qualified to the Recopa Sudamericana de Clubes, but Boca had already qualified to 1970 Copa Libertadores, so the runners-up, Atlanta, Took