Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:15:52 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Yuri's Night - April 12, 1961
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yuri's Night - Yuri Gagarin, =A0Cosmonaut, 1st man in space
>
> =A0 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). =A0Gagarin 1961, Shuttle =
1981.
>
> It's worth remembering.

Also:
1932 =96 Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
1945 =96 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 188=
2)
1994 =96 Canter & Siegel post the first commercial mass Usenet spam.

Other events, births, deaths here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12

mjw