Pair of Large Twin Primes/Historical Note

Historical Note on Pair of Large Twin Primes
reports in his of $1986$ that this pair of twin primes is the largest reported on by  in his  of $1981$.

It is reported that they were discovered by and  in $1979$.

Apparently they also discovered the pair $694\,513\,810 \times 2^{2304} \pm 1$ at around the same time.