[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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