历史上的今天-Today in History 2016-05-28

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May 28th

 

1934, a medical miracle that later turns tragic¹ in Ontario, Canada where the Dionne quintuplets are born. Ontario’s provincial² government deems the girl’s parents to beyond fit and puts the quints in a specially-built hospital. That’s where the identical sisters become a money-making tourist attraction during the Great Depression. Years later, the three surviving quints sue Ontario’s government and received a 2.8 million dollars settlement.

 

1908, Ian Fleming, the novelist to created fictional³ British super spy James Bond is born in London.

 

1972, the Duke of Windsor, the only British monarch⁴ to voluntarily relinquish⁵ the crown dies in Paris at age 77. The former King Edward the VIII abdicated⁶ the throne in order to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American divorcee.

 

1998, “When I was meditating⁷.” “She was sleeping.” “Right, and she was just a lazy little girl for slept about 18 hours a day.” 

 

In California, actor and comedian⁸ Phil Hartman is shot to death by his wife Brynn who then kills herself.

 

And 1957, Baseball’s National League approves moving the Brooklyn Dodges⁹ to Los Angeles and New York Giants to San Francisco.

 

Today In History, May 28th, Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press.

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