This Day, That Year

Item from Jan 7, 1982, in China Daily: Cui Yuhua and her husband, Zhang Keliang, proudly display their family, China's only quadruplets - two boys and two girls.

Cui, a peasant, married Zhang, a member of the Daolin commune in Ningxiang county, Hunan province, in 1976. The babies were born three years later in an easy delivery.

The first-born was a girl, weighing 3.1 kilograms; each of the others weighed exactly 2.6 kg at birth. All four children are reported to be in good health.