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Anthony Powell, novelist, began dancing to the music of time, today in 1905
Heinrich Theodor Böll, German novelist, born today in 1917
The first Pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, today in 1620
Phileas Fogg travelled rather further and considerably faster, completing his trip around the entire world in slightly less than 80 days, today in 1872, if you were reading it in serial form at the time, not until today in 1873, if you waited for the book to come out. And what about Passepartout, his valet - another name for my Sherpa Tenzing list (see July 24)
While today, in 1991, in fact not fiction though sometimes fact is harder to believe than fiction, today, in 1991, the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine signed the protocol to an agreement that made the formation of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) official. Four days later, having achieved the principal goal of his Presidency, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, and that was it for the Soviet Union: over, done, disbanded, GER.
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