Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:48:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Important day in history
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It wasn't noted here, but July 2nd the 57th
> anniversary of an SF related day according to The
> Writer’s Almanac.  From the newsletter:
>
> Today is the anniversary of an important day in the
> history of American paranoia: On this day in 1947 an
> object supposedly fell from the sky over Roswell, New
> Mexico. In the late 1940s, there were a lot of
> newspaper and radio reports about sightings of
> disk-like objects in the sky. There were at least
> sixteen alleged sightings between May 17 and July 12,
> 1947. In one story, a businessman saw nine objects
> flying over a mountain while he was piloting his
> private plane. In an interview, he described the
> objects as flying like a saucer skipping across water,
> and the term "flying-saucer" was born.
>
> Nicki
>
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> world affords; the good and the great welcome him,
> surround him, and humbly ask to be allowed to become his
> servants."  -Andrew Carnegie
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>

This is also the birthday of Robert A. Heinlein, I believe.
 He would have been a young 97 years old.

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Rich Lynch
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