02 FEB. 2005
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1968: On 27 March 1968, Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin died.
Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut who on 12 April 1961 became the first person to travel into space. He orbited Earth once in 1 hour 29 minutes at a maximum altitude of 301 kilometres. He never went into space again but trained other cosmonauts and toured several other nations.
Gagarin was killed with another pilot in the crash of a two-seat jet aircraft while on a routine training flight.
Mediamodaal
25 March
1655: On 25 March 1655, Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, a moon of Saturn.
24 March
2003: On 24 March 2003, scientists working on ESA's Integral mission discussed their gamma-ray burst findings so far in a press conference at the American Astronomical Society at Mount Tremblant, Quebec, Canada.
23 March
1912: On 23 March 1912, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun was born.
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