4 November

4 November was a date.

In 1829, Sarah Richley was reunited with her son Peter aboard the Jupiter. (PROSE: Of the Mermaid and Jupiter)

In 1951, Honoré Lechasseur was breakfasting in a café when he was visited by Catherine Howkins, who informed him that his friend Emily Blandish had been involved in an accident. (PROSE: The Albino's Dancer)

In 1960, Dr Jane Goodall witnessed chimpanzees creating tools. It was the first time a human witnessed a non-human animal doing this. Other tool-using Earth animals included crows, octopuses and the renegade sheep of the Great Woolly Rebellion. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)