February 4 - Ellen G. White's letter says: "A place must be provided to which the sick could be taken, where they could be taught how to live so as to preserve health."
April 28- General Conference telegram to John Burden instructs him not to make deposit on Loma Linda.
May 14 - Mrs. White writes in a letter, "Dear Brother Burden: Secure the property by all means."
April 4 - Mrs. White endorses the building of the new hospital and the plan for student physicians to receive some of their clinical education in Los Angeles.
October 28 - CME opens temporary hospital facilities with eight rooms, accommodating up to 10 patients.
1913
March 26 - CME Board decides to offer part of medical training in Los Angeles.
September 29 - CME launches its Los Angeles dispensary.
October 31 - The new Loma Linda Hospital, located in the middle of what is now the basic sciences quadrangle, nears completion.
November 24 - Board members name the new facility Loma Linda Hospital.
December 1 - Loma Linda Hospital opens and patients are moved into the new facility.
April 7 - New hospital on hill dedicated after second unit completed.
1937
April 7 - CME is accredited by Northwest Association of Secondary & Higher Schools.
April 12 - Board approves the School of Laboratory (Medical Technology) Technique.
April 17 - CME is accredited by Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools.
August 28 - Medical technology program approved by AMA.
1938
May 17 - Proposal is made to Adventist Church and CME leaders concerning a School of Dentistry.
1941
February 3 - School of Physical Therapy is established.
October 2 - Ground is broken for men's residence hall.
1942
June 6 - Physical therapy program receives initial approval by American Medical Association.
September - Men's residence is completed, named Arthur G. Daniells Hall.
1943
April 8 - Army Specialized Training Program approved.
June 30 - 47th General Hospital unit activated at Hammond General Hospital in Modesto, California.
July 1 - Accelerated program of medical education begins.
August 15 - National Association of Seventh-day Adventist Dentists (NASDAD) is organized.
September 15 - Army Specialized Training Program is organized in Loma Linda.
1944
April - 47th General Hospital unit shipped to New Guinea.
September 28 - Oran I. Cutler Auditorium named.
1945
November 19 - Radiological technology program receives American Medical Association approval.
1947
February 28 - Department of religion is authorized.
1948
April 1 - School of Tropical and Preventive Medicine opens.
April 19 - Loma Linda and White Memorial nursing courses are combined.
August 30 - Baccalaureate degree program in nursing begins.
1949
August 11 - New surgical wing opens.
1950
June 11 - Last graduation ceremonies are held in Loma Linda Bowl.
1951
October 21 - General Conference officers vote to establish CME School of Dentistry.
November 29 - AMA completes first inspection of CME since 1936.
December 10 - Nursing is accredited by National Nursing Accrediting Service.
1952
February 26 - School of Dietetics becomes School of Nutrition.
August 31 - Hydrotherapy at Sanitarium renamed "Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation."
October 29 - Board approves private practice plan for physicians.
1953
April 12 - Board recommends CME consolidation; favors Loma Linda campus.
June 14 - New library/administration building complex is occupied.
August 30 - First classes begin at the School of Dentistry.
September 13 - Loma Linda Library dedicated.
1954
January 28 - Graduate School is officially organized.
March 9 - School of Nursing obtains approval for adoption of quarter unit credit system.
August 25 - First CME graduate nursing students are enrolled.
1955
April 26 - Founders Day celebrates CME's 50th anniversary.
September 1 - Faculty and students move into the new dental building.
September 18 - School of Dentistry building is dedicated.
November 4 - New anatomy building holds first class.
1956
December 27 - "To make man whole," first chosen as the theme for the 1955, year-long 50th anniversary, adopted as institution's motto.
1957
May 23 - Dental program is approved by ADA's Council on Dental Education.
June 9 - First dental graduation is held.
1958
October 31 - School of Dentistry plans dental hygiene course.
1959
January 28 - Board approves a two-year occupational therapy curriculum leading to a BS degree.
May 26 - Ground is broken for new women's dormitory.
November 27 - Board approves occupational therapy curriculum.
1960
February 24 - CME receives WASC accreditation.
June 10 - Occupation therapy program is given initial approval by AMA.
June 13 - CME's master's program in nursing receives accreditation.
July 22 - CME team removes bullet from man's heart - first time heart-lung machine used for this purpose.
September 25 - Second Kate Lindsay Hall opens.
1961
July 1 - CME becomes Loma Linda University.
September 7 - Dental hygiene program approved by ADA.
1962
March 30 - OT program approved by AMA's Council on Medical Education.
April 26 - Medical records administration curriculum authorized.
April 26 - The School of Dietetics becomes the School of Nutrition and Dietetics.
September 26 - LLU board votes to unify campus at Loma Linda.
December 4 - Ground broken for Graduate School building.
1963
April 29 - First open heart surgery team leaves for Pakistan.
June 27 - Trustees ratify School of Medicine affiliation with Riverside County General Hospital.
August 9 - Vice president Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Overseas Heart Surgery Team.
September 3 - University SCOPE begins publication.
December 1 - Medical record administration program begins.
1964
June 7 - Ground is broken for LLUMC.
August 25 - Clinical pastoral education program is authorized.
September 1 - School of Public Health is organized.
November 16 - Ground is broken for biochemistry building on LL campus.
1965
February 22 - First annual President's convocation is held.
May 25 - Trustees vote to expand LLUMC to 11 stories from 9.
June 6 - First woman graduates from School of Dentistry.
August 6 - HEW awards $129,217 to dentistry to set up and operate oral health service at Monument Valley.
1966
January 25 - Completion of the east tower marks structural completion of new hospital.
July 1 - School of Health Related Professions is organized.
September 27 - Ground is broken for Dale Gentry Gymnasium.
October 1 - Monument Valley Dental Clinic begins operation.
October 30 - First meeting of Public Health Association of Seventh-day Adventists is held.
1967
February 8 - The Division of Public Health becomes the 15th School of Public Health in the nation, and the 6th professional school on the Loma Linda campus.
April 17 - First kidney transplant performed at Loma Linda University Hospital.
April 23 - Constituency approves LLU/La Sierra College merger.
June 23 - School of Public Health receives full accreditation.
July 1 - The School of Public Health begins instruction.
July 1 - LSC becomes College of Arts and Sciences of LLU.
July 9 - LLUH is first occupied.
July 10 - The first baby is born in the new University Hospital.
October 17 - Original Loma Linda Sanitarium is razed.
November 1 - First open-heart surgery is performed by LLU team in Greece.
1968
March 7 - The Dale Gentry Auditorium and Gymnasium opens.
February 8 - School of Nutrition and Dietetics becomes the department of nutrition and dietetics.
March 31 - LLUH is dedicated.
August 5 - School of Dentistry announces new two-year dental assisting program.
1969
January 26 - Nichol Hall opens.
January 28 - Second hospital is renamed Francis D. Nichol Hall.
February 16 - Dedication of LLUH meditation chapel is held.
October 26 - Helipad opened at LLUH.
1970
January 27 - LLU offers a black history course for credit for the first time.
February 15 - LLU mobile dental van begins service among 400 Indians living on Morongo Indian Reservation.
February 25 - First "School With a Heart" (now called "Clinic With a Heart") is held, providing a day of free dental care for the community.
July 26 - School of Dentistry team leaves for Central America.
August 20 - Loma Linda University Hospital is renamed Loma Linda University Medical Center.
September 14 - School of Public Health is renamed School of Health.
1971
January 15 - Mobile dental clinic program is inaugurated.
July 1 - School of Health Related Professions becomes School of Allied Health Professions.
August 20 - President Nixon arrives in Loma Linda to announce VA hospital.
1972
February 23 - LLU donates 15 acres for the new VA hospital.
May 22 - LLUMC Air Medical Service is inaugurated.
June 5 - First helicopter to be operated by a California hospital goes into service at LLU.
1973
February 22 - School of Nursing is relocated from LLUMC to West Hall.
June 7 - School of Nursing administration hosts open house.
July 6 - First LLUMC patient receives pacemaker.
November 11 - Councillors Field is dedicated.
1974
April 17 - First open heart surgery in Vietnam is done by LLU team.
April 24 - First Fine Arts Festival begins at LLU.
June 16 - VA Hospital groundbreaking held.
August 1 - First Seventh-day Adventist Health Study questionnaire is sent to 50,000 Adventists.
October 9 - Adventist church begins Annual Council session on LL campus.
1975
May 2 - Vietnamese refugees arrive.
October 6 - Outpatient Hand Rehabilitation Center opens.
1976
January 20 - First open-heart surgery in Saudi Arabia is done by LLU team.
January 21 - Loma Linda Ellen G. White Estate/SDA Research Center is dedicated.
March 11 - LLU announces accreditation of Hearing, Language & Speech Center.
June 18 - First allied health missionaries leave LLU for Africa.
1977
September 25 - Grand opening is held for Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital.
1979
May 10 - LLU announces undergraduate degree program in geology.
August 27 - Ground is broken for Del E. Webb Memorial Library & Randall Visitor Center.
September 4 - Faculty Medical Offices building opens.
December 2 - First group of LLU medical personnel flies to Thailand to help Cambodian refugees.
1980
January 3 - First recipient of Open Hearts for Children Fund undergoes surgery at LLUMC.
June 2 - LLUMC named regional trauma center for Inyo, Mono, Riverside & San Bernardino counties.
1981
March 9 - Ground is broken for Alumni Hall for Basic Sciences.
May 3 - The first Good Samaritan sculpture is unveiled.
May 30 - Six people die in a LLU helicopter crash.
August 24 - Opening ceremonies are held for Del E. Webb Memorial Library and Visitors Center.
1982
March - Medical graduates celebrate 50th Annual Alumni Postgraduate Convention.
May 11 - Loma Linda Community Hospital purchased by LLUMC.
May 15 - LLUMC Hospice begins.
June 3 - Adventist Health System/Loma Linda certified by Secretary of State.
1984
March 13 - Alumni Hall for Basic Sciences opens.
April 23 - Ground is broken for Schuman Pavilion.
October 26 - "Baby Fae" receives the heart of a baboon.
1985
January 14 - Ellen G. White Estate Branch Office is dedicated.
February - SIMS (Students for International Mission Service) is formed.
August 29 - Annual Children's Day begins.
November 20 - "Baby Moses" receives a new human heart.
1986
March 28 - Ground is broken for new LLUMC wing.
September 16 - Irwin and Virginia Schuman Pavilion is dedicated.
1987
February 2 - Outpatient Surgery Center is opened.
August 23 - School of Religion is organized.
October 16 - Paul Holc receives a new heart when 3 hours old.
1988
February 8 - Loma Linda International Heart Institute opens.
April 7 - Ground is broken for Proton Treatment Center.
December 19 - Grand opening ceremonies are held for LLUMC south wing (phase one).
1989
August 26 - The first in vitro baby is born at LLU's Center for Fertility and In Vitro Fertilization.
September - The School of Medicine accepts nearly 50 students from the medical school closing at Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
October 31 - Groundbreaking ceremony for Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital is held.
1990
February 12 - Board votes to reverse La Sierra College and Loma Linda University 23-year consolidation.
March 7 - LLU Riverside Trustees vote to rename the campus "La Sierra University."
May 17 - Board of Trustees merge the School of Public Health and the department of preventive medicine.
June 3 - Behavioral Medicine Center holds open house.
August 25 - Constituency votes to separate Loma Linda and Riverside campuses.
September 20 - Board of Trustees votes to formally recognize and designate LLU as a health sciences university.
October 18 - Department of pathology and laboratory medicine becomes first academic department of SM to be sufficiently endowed to sustain its teaching functions with earnings from endowment assets.
October 23 - First patient receives treatment at Proton Treatment Center.
1991
January 18 - BMC becomes operational.
June 26 - First-in-the-world use of rotating gantry for proton therapy.
September 29 - "Just For Seniors" program launched.
1992
March 9 - Newly remodeled and refurbished TotalCare Birth Center at LLUMC is reopened.
June 3 - Groundbreaking services are held for the Ronald McDonald House.
July 9 - LLUMC celebrates its 25th anniversary.
July 20 - Children's Hospital Foundation established.
December 8 - Drayson Center groundbreaking is held.
1993
January 16 - First kidney/pancreas transplant is performed at LLUMC.
August 20 - The first local liver transplant is performed at LLUMC.
November 10 - Children's Hospital holds grand opening ceremonies.
1994
February 15 - Groundbreaking is held for Rehabilitation Institute.
May 9 - Grand opening held for Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital.
November 4 - First artificial heart is implanted at LLUMC.
December 1 - Memorandum of agreement signed between MC and NASA to collaborate on proton research projects.
1995
January 11 - Dedication and grand opening held for Drayson Center.
May 15 - Center for Molecular Biology and Gene Therapy officially opens.
July 31 - Open house is held for LLUMC Adult Day Care Center.
October 14 - Unveiling ceremonies for bronze Good Samaritan are held.
October 16 - Grand opening ceremonies for SAC Norton are held.
December 1 - LLU & MC launch combined website.
1996
April 13 - Transplantation Institute performed its 50th liver transplant.
May 30 - Roderick conjoined twins are separated.
June 29 - First bone-marrow transplant is performed at LLUMC.
July 16 - Ricketts Research Library and Learning Center is dedicated.
September 26 - Ribbon-cutting ceremonies are held for the Judefind House.
October 30 - Ceremonies are held honoring United States Congressman Jerry Lewis for his longtime support.
November 29 - Baby Juan Santiago receives skin transplant, a first at LLUMC.
1997
February 17 - Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness is established.
March 1 - Wong Kerlee International Conference Center opens.
March 2 - Opening ceremonies are held for the LLU Coleman Pavilion.
March 27 - Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center entity is created.
March 30 - Chan Shun Pavilion Cancer Institute named.
September 11 - Grand opening of Ronald McDonald House is held.
October 20-24 - First Seventh-day Adventist International Nursing Conference is held.
November 16 - Center for Joint Replacement hosts grand opening.
December 11 - Ribbon-cutting ceremonies are held for the Assistive Technology Assessment Center.
1998
February 3 - Groundbreaking ceremony is held for Geoscience Research Institute.
February 6 - Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the School of Dentistry expansion.
March 17 - Opening ceremonies are held for the A. Gary Anderson Family Foundation Activity Room.
May 20 - MC holds open house for children's outpatient program.
July 27 - LLUMC is recognized as one of "America's Best Hospitals" by U.S. News and World Report.
August 5 - Stamp honoring organ donations is unveiled at LLUMC.
1999
February 4 - 100th liver transplant is performed at LLUMC.
May 26 - First stem-cell transplant is performed at LLUMC.
September 14 - "Big Hearts for Little Hearts" is formed.
2000
May 13 - First PTA students graduate from Oakwood College.
August 15 - First autologous stem cell transplant is performed at LLUMC.
August 29 - Chief of pediatric neurosurgery combines two technologies to remove a tumor in a 13-year-old boy.
2001
March 6 - BMC holds open house to celebrate 10 years of operation.
May 3 - LLUMC implants world's smallest pacemaker into infant.
November 10 - SAC Health System celebrates fifth anniversary.
2002
January 8 - CAL FED donates deed for East Campus expansion.
July 10 - LLUCH celebrates new pediatric emergency department.
August 28 - LLUMC demonstrates new technology for non-disruptive retrofits.
September 19 - LLU opens its new School of Pharmacy.
December 12 - Ritchie Mansion grand opening marks new housing for cancer patients.
2003
February 6-10 - School of Dentistry celebrates 50 years of service.
February 28 - LLUMC named top company to work for in Inland Empire.
July 17 - LLU hosts fifth annual MITHS (Minority Introduction to Health Sciences) program.
October 27 - LLUMC named among top 100 hospitals in cardiovascular care.
October 28 - LLUAHSC responds to Southern California fires.
November 4 - Walter's Children's Charity Classic raises $260,000 for LLUCH.
December 11 - LLU adds School of Science and Technology.
2004
January 7 - LLU completes five years of physical therapy education to Puerto Rico; administrators discuss further collaboration.
March 15 - LLU/LLUMC medical team travels to Afghanistan to evaluate hospital request.
March 30 - "Venom ER" series begins on Animal Planet Channel.
April 9 - School of Dentistry faculty assist with new residency program in Armenia.
June 28 - July 3 Trauma team aids flood victims in Haiti and Dominican Republic.
