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In December 1983 Yacoub performed the UK's first heart and lung transplant at Harefield.
Hours after the December 1983 bomb attacks on U.S. and French embassies in Kuwait, he fled to Iran.
The bombing of the Marseille-Paris TGV train (3 dead, 12 injured).
The bombing of the Gare Saint-Charles in Marseille on December 31, 1983 (2 dead, 33 injured).