1983 Event -128.6 degrees F (-89.2 degrees C) recorded, Vostok, Antarctica (world record) 1980 Event Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 1968 Death Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, U.S.S.R. cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 1963 Event Valentina Tereshkova (U.S.S.R.) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 1963 Event Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days 1963 Event Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut 1962 Event Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15 1962 Event Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3 1961 Event Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2 1961 Event Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) 1961 Event Yuri Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth in Vostok 1 1960 Event -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record) 1937 Birthday Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space, Vostok 6 1935 Birthday Gherman Stepanovich Titov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Vostok II 1934 Birthday Valery F Bykovsky, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39 1934 Birthday Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut, Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31 1934 Birthday Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russia, cosmonaut, Vostok 1 backup 1934 Birthday Yuri Gagarin, born in Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space, aboard Vostok 1 1933 Birthday Valentina Leonidovna Ponomaryova, cosmonaut, Vostok 6 backup 1930 Birthday Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Ukraine, cosmonaut, Vostok IV, Soyuz 14 1929 Birthday Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Vostok III, Soyuz 9
