apr 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin makes a single orbit around the Earth in the USSR Vostok 1
Description:
- He became the first man to reach space- He remained in space for one hour and forty-eight minutes before landing in Saratov Oblast, west Russia
- The event was a clear Soviet win
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apr 12, 1961
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~ 64 years ago