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On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly into space.
In the ephemeris of april 12 These events that occurred on a day like today in Argentina and the world stand out:
● 1942. born Carlos Alberto Reutemann. After his career in sports car racing in Argentina, he came to Formula 1 in 1972. In a decade in the highest category he won twelve races and scratched glory with Williams in 1981. He resigned the title against the Brazilian Nelson Piquet in the last career in Las Vegas. Already retired, he devoted himself to politics. He won the governorship of Santa Fe in 1991 for Peronism, thanks to the slogan law. He left the governorship in 1995 and went to the Senate. He was re-elected governor in 1999. At the end of his second term, he returned to the Senate, where he was kept until his death in 2021.
● [1945 When there are only a few weeks left before the Allied victory in Europe takes place, he dies Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The president of the United States was 63 years old. He was the only one to win four presidential elections in a row, since 1932. He took office at the height of the Depression and his Keynesian policies, embodied in the New Deal, led to economic recovery. He entered the war after the Japanese attack on the fleet at Pearl Harbor and authorized the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. When he died, he was succeeded by Vice President Harry Truman, who ordered the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and starred in the early years of the Cold War.
● 1951. The expropriation of the newspaper the press. It was the main opposition media to the government of Juan Domingo Perón. A union conflict precipitates events. In Congress, John William Cooke motorizes the bill that takes the newspaper out of the Gainza Paz family and hands it over to the CGT. The Liberating Revolution returned the press to its former owners in February 1956. In the meantime, the morning paper lost its hefty portfolio of classified ads at the hands of Clarion. The liberal newspaper would not recover economically, while Roberto Noble’s took a huge leap in its consolidation.
● 1961. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. Aboard the Vostok I spacecraft, he completes an orbit around the Earth. The first astronaut in history becomes a national hero of the USSR, which takes advantage of the United States in the space race, one of the fields of confrontation between the two powers in the Cold War. Gagarin, 27 years old at the time of the flight, died in 1968 when the fighter he was piloting in training crashed. The date of his historic journey is remembered as the International Day of Manned Space Flight, as mandated by the UN General Assembly.
● 1981. For the first time a space shuttle takes off. The Columbia starts a new stage in the space race. It was launched from Cape Canaveral, with two crew members on board (one of them, John Young, the ninth man to set foot on the Moon as part of the Apollo XVI mission, in 1972) and landed successfully two days later. On its first flight it orbits the Earth 36 times. The mission lasts 54 hours. The ship disintegrated with its seven crew members in 2003.
● 1989. At the age of 67, who for many is the greatest boxer of the 20th century dies: Sugar Ray Robinson. Born Walker Smith Jr., he was the first boxer to win a world title five times. He turned professional in the early 1940s after an impressive amateur career. He reigned over middleweight and welterweight. His professional career spanned a quarter of a century. He had a total of 202 fights, with 175 wins (108 KOs) and 19 losses.
● 2018. Mexican writer dies Sergio Pitol at 85 years old. Winner of Cervantes Prize in 2005, he wrote storybooks such as fenced time, hell of all, there is no such place Y body present; among other novels, the parade of love Y married life; In addition to tests, such as the house of the tribe Y the third character. In addition, she translated from English, Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, and Chinese.
Also, it is World Military Expenditure Reduction Day.