Australia On This Day

18 August - 1950 - The Sara Quads


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On this day in 1950, Australians were on tenterhooks as they awaited news from Bellingen, NSW, where British war bride Betty Sara was giving birth to quads. Quads had never before survived in Australia. The story would be front-page news for days — and a staple of the Australian Women's Weekly for the next quarter of a century.

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