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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1934
Yuri Gagarin was born in Russia in 1934. In 1961 he became the first human being to leave the Earth, riding a rocket into orbit and circling the planet once before landing safely. Overnight, the whole world knew his name.
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