Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:26:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Yuri's Night - April 12, 1961
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
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Yuri's Night - Yuri Gagarin,  Cosmonaut, 1st man in space

   April 12, 1961

Also the date of the first space shuttle flight, twenty years later (and 100 years earlier, the US Civil War began, 1861).  Gagarin 1961, Shuttle 1981.

It's worth remembering.

=Tamar