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			Current events for November 6, 2012 <<-Previous day Return to calendar Next day->> Events in space history for 11/06: Lunar Orbiter 2 was launched atop an Atlas-Agena D and photographed the moon to determine potential Apollo landing sites (1966). British airman John Alcock born (1892). Alcock and Brown were the first to fly across the Atlantic nonstop in 1919. Their plane was a Vickers Vimy.