No, this isn’t some crazy cloning or in-vitro-fertilization experiment. Births on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day are not that uncommon; and even twins being born on one of these days is apparently not that rare. Here’s a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence though, being born in different years.
Think about the oddity of one having a birth date of December 31st, 2008 and the other with a birth date of January 1st, 2009. The Griffin twins were born in Michigan this past New Years; Tarrance arrived at 11:51pm on the last day of 2008, and twenty-six minutes later at 12:17am his brother Tariq arrived as one of the first babies of 2009.
Two years ago (2006/2007) the Hoenig family pulled off a similar feat in Boston, delivering a baby girl at 11:58pm and her twin brother a few seconds after midnight. Another pair of girls back in 1991/1992, the first at 11:56pm and the second at 12:14am.