Today March 9 is the birthday of the First Cosmonaut - Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin.
Gagarin's popularity took the British government by surprise, and audiences with the prime minister and the Queen were hastily arranged (Credit: Hoxton/Getty Images)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210409-yuri-gagarin-the-spaceman-who-came-in-from-the-cold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin#
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