Conjoined twins permanently impaired. In 1957, Bertram Katz and his surgical team made international medical history performing the world's first successful separation of conjoined twins sharing a vital organ. Omphalopagus twins John Nelson and James Edward Freeman (Johnny and Jimmy) were born in Youngstown, Ohio, on April 27, 1956. The boys shared a liver but had separate hearts and were successfully separated at North Side Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, by Bertram Katz. The operation was funded by the Ohio Crippled Children's Service Society. Recent successful separations of conjoined twins include that of the separation of Ganga and Jamuna Shreshta in 2001, who
Morristown Twins Morristown Twins The Morristown Twins (previously known as the Maryville-Alcoa Twins) were a minor league baseball team that played in the Class D and Class C Mountain States League from 1953 to 1954. They were originally located in Maryville and Alcoa, Tennessee, and played their home games at Hunt Field in Maryville. The Twins won the 1953 Mountain States League pennant by finishing the season in first place. In 1954, the Twins relocated to Morristown, Tennessee, where they became the Morristown Twins. The only Twins player to also play in Major League Baseball was Willie Kirkland who played his first