It was mazel tov six times over when the world’s first surviving sextuplets – David, Jason, Grant, Emma, Nicci and Elizabeth Rosenkowitz – celebrated their 21st birthday last week.
“It.’s another milestone,” the proud father, Colin Rosenkowitz, said in an interview. May they all live, according to the Torah, to the allotted three score years and 10 – and with a bit of strength a further 10 – or till 120.”
The sextuplets made the Guinness Book of Records with their birth, one month premature, by Caesarean section, on Jan. 11, 1974, at the Mowbray Maternity Hospital in Cape Town.
Since then, the record has been equalled three times – once in Italy and twice in the United Kingdom.
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