Sinclair Dates

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@matrix.net>]

   [1]Sinclair Dates:  November 11.
   In 1982: 5th Space Shuttle Mission, Columbia 5 is launched 1st coml
   flight
   In 1980: Crew of Soyuz 35 returns, to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
   In 1975: Portugal grants Angola independence (National Day),
   In 1966: Gemini 12 launched, on 4-day flight
   In 1921: President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier,
   In 1918: WW I [end], Source: ToW
   In 1918: WW I ends, On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
   eleventh month, the guns fell silent; end of World War I. Remembrance
   Day (Commonwealth); formerly Armistice Day, now Veterans Day (U.S.).
   In 1889: Washington admitted, as American 42nd state
   In 1831: Nat Turner executed, Former slave who led a violent
   insurrection.
   In 1648: Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten Leeward Islands,
   In 1620: Mayflower Compact, 41 Pilgrims signed a compact aboard
   Mayflower . [2]Tomorrow:  November 12.
   In 1987: Van Gogh's `Irises' sells for $53,900,000, Rec amount for a
   painting
   In 1984: Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite, 1st space
   salvage
   In 1982: Yuri V Andropov, succeeds Leonid Brezhnev
   In 1981: 2nd Space Shuttle Mission, 1st time a spacecraft is launched
   twice (space shuttle Columbia)
   In 1981: 1st balloon crossing of Pacific completed, (Double Eagle V)
   In 1980: US space probe Voyager I, approaches 77 000 miles of Saturn
   In 1975: US Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas retired, after 36
   years
   In 1965: Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union, toward Venus
   In 1954: Ellis Island closed, immigration station in NY Harbor closed
   In 1948: Japanese premier Tojo sentenced to death, by war crimes
   tribunal
   In 1944: German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off Norway,
   In 1933: 1st known photo of Loch Ness monster, (or whatever) is taken
   In 1927: Trotsky expelled, from Soviet Communist Party; Stalin becomes
   undisputed leader
   In 1921: Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments,
   In 1918: Austria becomes a republic,
   In 1715: Battle of Sheriffmuir, Earl of Mar vs. Duke of Argyll;
   indecisive. [3]David Sinclair of Brabsterdorran fights for Jacobite
   cause.
   In 1035: Cnut d.,
   [4]King of England dies.
   In 324 B.C.: Era of Alexander, Commonly used for dating in the ancient
   world.

References

   1. http://www.mids.org/sinclair/timeline.html
   2. http://www.mids.org/sinclair/timeline.html
   3. http://www.clansinclair.org/hist1.htm
   4. http://www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders/TIME1.html
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