It was Friday morning. A number
of high-ranking space officials
including Vasily Mishin and
Boris Chertok flew to Baikonur
to oversee final preparations
for the first Soviet manned
rocket launch in more than two
years. In the mountains of Bolivia,
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and his
guerilla returned to their cache
to find twenty-three tins of milk,
almost half of their supply, were
missing. 'Tinned milk is a great
corrupter' he noted in his diary.

In England, in his rented shared
kitchen in Kilburn, North London,
Derek Bass used the last of the
milk in his tea ... there was no
sugar. The Daily Mail, left behind
by another, lay on the table,
open at page ten. 'Dianna Rigg
To Quit The Avengers' it reported,
He turned on the tatty transistor
radio, it was playing the number
one single 'Something Stupid'.

It was just another day on Earth.