Baby, Hot Topics|January 3, 2010 9:20 am

Identical Twins Born In Different Decades



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twins 300x242 Identical Twins Born In Different DecadesA Florida couple welcomed their new sons — twins Marcello and Stefano Velasco — on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day…which means the boys were born in different decades!

Margarita Velasco delivered the her sons by c-section. Older twin Marcello was delivered just before midnight and his brother came around just after the New Year was welcomed in.

The twins are in the NICU of a Tampa hospital for a few weeks before they can go home.

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  • Rick

    Sorry, folks, but 2010 is the last year of the decade that runs from 2001 to 2010. Congrats to the twins and family, but they were actually born in separate YEARS, not separate decades.

  • The Rest of Us

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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s Don

    Are you sure about that? There are a few sites that believe teh decade begins on 01-01-10, such as wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s

  • Kathie

    Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Ever.

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  • Rick

    Don – you are right about lots of sites saying the decade begins in 2010. This seems to imply that the first year (of the modern Cristian Era) was “Year Zero”, which I don’t believe was the case. If the first year was year 1, then the tenth year would have to be year 10, meaning that decades run from xx01 to xx10. Similarly, the year 2000 was the last year of the old millennium and 2001 was the first year of the new one.

  • Stop fighting over this already

    So I guess the 1990s went from 1991-2000 then?

    No. This is a new decade. When people write these things they’re not going by scientific changes so stop it already.

  • Kevin

    Call us what you want, but at least we know how to count. The new decade starts 01/01/2011.

  • DrPerdurabo

    Some people will argue about anything.

  • Matt

    They were born in different decades. You wouldn’t say 1989 and 1990 were the same decade.

  • keith

    jeez… okay, I was born on January 1, year 1 A.D. My tenth birthday will fall on January 1, year 11, the same day my “second decade” will begin. I will end my first century on the last second of December 31, year 100, and begin my second century January 1, year 101. Obviously, the pattern continues with each millenia beginning on 1001, then 2001, and so on. We start counting ANYTHING with the number 1 folks, NOT ‘zero’ (with the exception of certain digital processes).

    It’s only a minor embarrassment unless someone publicly uses this ridiculous mistake to make a headline. But this makes the public look as stupid and vacuous as our reputation claims, especially when someone trained to write (and presumably, think) does it. My kids know how to count birthdays, and I am tired of trying to explain why the grownups cannot count.

  • keith

    oh – and I don’t know about you, but I think most of us WOULD say 10 is part of the same decade as 9. Count out a decade: year 1, year 2, year 3, year 4, year 5, year 6, year 7, year 8, year 9, year 10. A decade is not 9 years, it is 10. unless you started counting with year 0? (if so, exactly when did year zero occur?

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