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In 1934, a photographer from the Toronto Star, Fred Davis, signed a contract stating that the $10,000 (equivalent to $218,194 in 2023) the Newspaper Enterprise Association put into the trust fund disallows anyone else from photographing the quintuplets for a year, including their parents. Each newsreel that Pathé News made meant that a deposit ...
The Gaither quintuplets (born 3 August 1983, in Indianapolis, Indiana) were the first surviving African-American quintuplets and were one of only three naturally-conceived American sets in 1983. [47] [48] [49] The Al-Ghamdi quintuplets (born 2 February 1988, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) were the first set to be born in Saudi Arabia. The 5 boys were ...
May 28 - Dionne quintuplets, first quintuplets known to survive their infancy; June 7 - David Strangway, Canadian geophysicist and academic (d. 2016) June 16 - Roger Neilson, ice hockey coach (d. 2003) June 22 Willie Adams, politician and senator; Nathan Nurgitz, lawyer, judge, and senator (d. 2019) June 24 - Jean-Pierre Ferland, singer ...
Even though they have no money her husband, Oliva, races to get a doctor. Early on the morning of May 28, 1934 she gives birth to five daughters, the famous Dionne Quintuplets. The story soon develops into a media frenzy. Radio personality Helena Reid arrives on the scene. Oliva and the other children leave in order to save the quints from ...
English: This handkerchief was produced as a souvenir of the Canadian Dionne Quintuplets, five sisters born in Ontario, Canada, in 1934. They were the first quintuplets to survive infancy, and were made wards of the state under the Dionne Quintuplets Guardianship Act of 1935.
A couple in Laurel, Mississippi, got the shock of a lifetime when they found out they are expecting quintuplets. Quintuplets occur in roughly one in 60 million births, according to Dr. Rachael ...
1934 was a common year ... Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, ... Canadian statesman, 24th Governor General of Canada (d.
Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, OBE (29 May 1883 – 2 June 1943) was a Canadian obstetrician, best known for delivering and caring for the Dionne quintuplets, the first quintuplets known to survive early infancy. [1]