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London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception

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  • 1961-7-19

London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...

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London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception

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  • 1961-7-19

London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...

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Yuri Gagarin Mobbed By a Crowd

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  • 1961-7-15

Major Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman, being mobbed by a crowd as he left the Russian Embassy for the Russian Trade Fair in London on Tuesday.

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Gagarin and Prime Minister Macmillion

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  • 1961-12-6

Yuri Gagarin visited Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House on July 13th just before visiting the Air Ministry. Could the P.M. be remarking on Yuri's flight? That is how it appears as Mr. Macmillan points skywards.

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Richard Beach Sculpts Major Gagarin

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  • 1961-6-3

A clay head of Major Gagarin — the world's first man-in-space, has been modelled by Sculptor Richard Beach who lives in Wakefield, Yorks. It is being produced for waxworks heads — by Jean Roger of West London. Mr. Beach used photographs and newspa...

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Major Yuri Gagarin at London

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  • 1961-7-11

London gave Major Gagarin, the world's first man in space, a great reception today (11-7-61). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London bef...

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