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Titov In Training Before Take-off

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  • 1961-8-7

Moscow: Major Gherman Stepanovich Titov, the second Soviet cosmonaut who landed safely today after orbitting the earth 17 times, is pictured here being trained on a centrifuge device before take-off. Moscow Radio said Titov landed in "Vostok II" a...

United Press International (UK) Ltd.

Train Accident

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  • 1961-2-18

Eight people had miraculous escapes from death when a 120-ton diesel train crashed through station buffers and a stone wall to plough across a road and a through a row of terraced houses at 35-40 m.p.h. near Oldham, Lacashire recently. Driver Harr...

The Times of Ceylon Press

Valencia in Spain

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  • 1961-1-17

Forty-one people were killed recently, when an express train collided with a freight train at Casa Antunez between Barcelona and Valencia in Spain. The brakes of the passenger train are said to have failed.

The Times of Ceylon Press

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