May 28th

 

1934, a medical miracle that later turns tragic in Ontario, Canada where the Dionne quintuplets are born. Ontario’s provincial 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 fictional British super spy James Bond is born in London.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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