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Jan. 8, 1920: Siamese twins present a census puzzler

Lucio and Simplicio Godina, born in the Philippines in 1908, were actually pygopagus twins, joined at the buttocks. The question for the census director: Should they be counted as one or two?

January 7, 2012 at 9:07PM
Godina brothers, 1912
The Godina brothers at age 4, 1912. (Ben Welter/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Census Director Solves
Nature Puzzle; Siamese
Twins Held Two Persons

(By Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 7. – Lucio and Simplicio Godin[a], famous "Siamese Twins," will be enumerated in the census as two persons, although they are a unit physically, under a ruling today by Director Rogers. The twins are 11 years old, natives of the Philippines, and are living in Washington.

Godina brothers, 1912
(Ben Welter/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Awwwwwwwww: The Godina brothers at age 4. (American Press Association photo)

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