This Day In History

Yesterday was the 35th anniversary of Apollo 13. Today from the History Channel we have:

FIRST MAN IN SPACE:
April 12, 1961

On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri
Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.
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The russkies beat up there, but we have kicked ass every since.