No. When did hepatitis B vaccine become available? The first hepatitis B vaccine became commercially avail-able in the United States in 1982. In 1986, a hepatitis B vaccine produced by recombinant DNA technology was licensed, and a second recombinant-type hepatitis B vaccine was licensed in 1989. The two recombinant DNA vaccines (Recombivax HB and Engerix-B) are the only hepatitis B vaccine preparations currently used in the United States.
Myra Adele Logan. Physician and Surgeon. Myra Adele Logan was born in 1908 in Tuskegee, Alabama and was the first woman to perform open heart surgery. She is also noted for being a selfless, humanitarian doctor who practiced medicine to serve the community.
Geoff Hurst. Born in Ashton in 1941, Geoff Hurst grew up in nearby Denton. He became a footballer who played for West Ham, Stoke City and England. He scored three goals in the 1966 World Cup Final and so helped England to win the World Cup 4-2 against Germany.He is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final.ctor Brian Wilde was born in Ashton in 1927, but moved away and went to school in Hertfordshire. He played the prison warder Barraclough in the Ronnie Barker series Porridge. He also played Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine, alongside Clegg and Compo, for 9 years. He died in March 2008.