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From: gm@trsvax
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Subject: Re: Two questions on "Back to the Futur
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 09:59:00 EDT
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> I have an interesting question: Is November 5 .... an important day for time
> travel?  Both _Back_to_the_Future_ and _Time_After_Time_ (about H.G. Wells
> and Jack the Ripper) use that day as either a takeoff or arrival date....are
> there other movies that use this day...or is it just a coincidence?

% grep "Nov 5" /usr/local/lib/calendar.dat
Nov 5	Election Day
Nov 5	Guy Fawkes' Plot (1605)
Nov 5	Roy Rogers born (1912)

% echo "Nothing of importance on that date."
Nothing of importance on that date.
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