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May 28th1934, 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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1 tragic | |
adj.悲剧的,悲剧性的,悲惨的 | |
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2 provincial | |
adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人 | |
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adj.小说的,虚构的 | |
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4 monarch | |
n.帝王,君主,最高统治者 | |
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5 relinquish | |
v.放弃,撤回,让与,放手 | |
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6 abdicated | |
放弃(职责、权力等)( abdicate的过去式和过去分词 ); 退位,逊位 | |
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7 meditating | |
a.沉思的,冥想的 | |
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8 comedian | |
n.喜剧演员;滑稽演员 | |
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9 dodges | |
n.闪躲( dodge的名词复数 );躲避;伎俩;妙计v.闪躲( dodge的第三人称单数 );回避 | |
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