On May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets – Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne – were born to Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada.

Ten years ago

Pope Benedict XVI visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland as “a son of the German people” and asked God why he had remained silent during the “unprecedented mass crimes” of the Nazi Holocaust. Barry Bonds hit his 715th home run during the San Francisco Giants’ 6-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies to slip past Babe Ruth and pull in right behind Hank Aaron’s long-standing record of 755. Sam Hornish Jr. won the second closest Indianapolis 500 ever, by point-0635 seconds.

Five years ago

President Barack Obama praised Poland’s transition to democracy following a meeting in Warsaw with President Bronislaw Komorowski. After a four-year blockade, Egypt permanently opened the Gaza Strip’s main gateway to the outside world. North Korea freed Eddie Jun, an American it had held for a half year for reportedly proselytizing.

One year ago

A federal grand jury indictment handed up in Chicago revealed that former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert had agreed to pay $3.5 million in hush money to keep an unidentified person silent about “prior misconduct” by the Illinois Republican.

— By The Associated Press