The oldest first time grandmother is Marianne Wallenberg (b. 07 Feb 1913, Germany) who was 95 years old when her first grandson Joshua Fritz Wallenberg (Canada) was born at Sinai Hospital, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on 29 April 2008. Marianne became the first time grandmother when her son James and his wife Jacqueline gave birth to twins Joshua Fritz Wallenberg and Karina Diana Wallenberg.
The world’s oldest spam was sent at 12:33 EDT on 3 May 1978 by Gary Thuerk (USA), then working for Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC, USA). It was sent to 397 email accounts on the ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) of the US Defense Dept., inviting them to a product demonstration of the DECSYSTEM-2020, 2020T, 2060 and 2060T computers. ARPAnet is regarded as the predecessor to the internet. The original email still exists.
Herbert Carrington (USA, b. 17 October 1898), received a Medtronic Hancock II tissue valve on 10 June 1993 aged 94 years 129 days, which was still working on 15 June 2005 when he was 106 years 134 days. As of March 2006 we are aware that Herbert Carrington is in good health.
According to a study on cardiac surgery in nonagenarians and centenarians published in 2003 by the Department of Surgery of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia (USA), five centenarians were operated on for isolated cardiac bypass surgeries. The study was based on records of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Database.
As of 2005, Neal Goss, Jr (USA; b. 26 October 1920) was an active hang glider pilot, flying several times each month. Update email received that he’s still active as of 18 May 2007.
The oldest living chicken is Muffy, a Red Quill Muffed American Game, who at 22 years old as of 2011, was born on 01 Jan 1989 and belongs to Todd Mcwilliams from Maryland, USA.
Bacteria trapped in suspended animation inside salt crystals for 250 million years have been revived and cultured by US scientists. Designated Bacillus 2-9-3, this species is ten times older than the previous oldest revived bacteria. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_978000/978774.stm http://www.wcupa.edu/%5Facademics/sch%5Fcas.bio/faculty/russ/russ.htm
The oldest kinkajou (Potos flavus) ever in captivity was Sugar Bear, who lived to be 40 years and 6 months, when he died at Honolulu Zoo, Hawaii, USA in 2003. Sugar Bear’s date of birth was 8 June 1962, however there is no precise date for his death, apart from early 2003. The kinkajou (Indian for ‘Honey Bear’) is a member of the raccoon family, and related to the red panda. It is indigenous to the tropical forests in southern Mexico, Belize and southern Brazil.
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Carroll Basham (USA, b. 31 March 1925) had a kidney transplant operation aged 77 years 185 days on 2 October 2002 at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, USA. His stepdaughter Nancy Hildenburg donated the kidney.
A microgram sample of Plutonium-239 was produced using a 60 inch cyclotron at the University of California in Berkeley by a team headed by Glen T. Seabourg in 1941. The sample was stored in a cigar box until 1966 when Glen Seabourg and Emilio Segre presented it to the Museum of History and Technology at the Smithsonian Institute, where it resides today.