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From: pmm1920@ritcv.UUCP (Paul Meyerhofer)
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Subject: Re: BTTF Nov 5, 1955 specialness
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 16:49:16 EDT
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> I'm not sure if anyone has yet pointed this out, but a few minutes
> of sleuthing the other day led me to the discovery that Albert Einstein,
> author of the Special and General Theories of Relativity, died in 1955.
> Surely this must be a reason for picking that year to time travel back
> to.  Unfortunately, he died April 18, not November 5, so I still haven't
> found a reason for the date.  Maybe they simply chose Nov 5 because they
> knew that was the night that the Honeymooners episode with Ralph as a
> spaceman (?) premiered (just speculating, I don't know).
> 
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   Maybe this is why Dr. Brown's dog was named Eistein, too?!