Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:40:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight April 12, 1961
To: WSFAlist original <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
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also the date of the first space shuttle flight, twenty years later (and the US Civil War, 1861). Gagarin 1961, Shuttle 1981.