2013 Event The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences award is established by Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google and venture capitalize Yuri Milner; the prize rewards excellence in life sciences, with 11 awards and $3 million in prizes 2012 Event Expedition 33 ends and Expedition 34 begins as astronauts Yuri Malenchenko, Sunita Williams, and Akihiko Hoshide return to Earth with spacecraft Soyuz TMA-05M 2012 Event Astronauts, Sunita Williams of the United States, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Aki Hoshide of Japan, arrive at the International Space Station for a three-month long mission 1984 Event Yuri Sedykh of U.S.S.R. throws hammer a record 86.33 m 1984 Event Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as U.S.S.R. leader 1984 Death Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party 1982 - 1984, dies at 69 1983 Event U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president 1983 Event Yuri Dumchev of U.S.S.R. throws discus a record 71.86 m 1983 Event Yuri Andropov invites U.S. schoolgirl Samantha Smith to U.S.S.R. 1982 Event U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader 1978 Event Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work 1968 Death Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 1968 Death Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, U.S.S.R. cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31 1964 Birthday Yuri Khmylev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres 1963 Birthday Yuri Yuriyevich Krikun, born in Russia, cosmonaut 1962 Birthday Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, born in Russia, Lt-colonel/cosmonaut 1961 Birthday Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko, Russian Lt-colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-19 1961 Event Yuri Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth in Vostok 1 1961 Birthday Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russian major/cosmonaut, Mir, Soyuz TM-23 1959 Death Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainen writer (Commissioners), dies at 60 1957 Birthday Yuri Vladimirovich Usachyov, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-18, TM-23 1953 Birthday Yuri Viktorovich Prikhodko, Russian cosmonaut 1953 Event Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec 1949 Birthday Yuri Michaylovich Baturin, Russian cosmonaut, SK:Soyuz TM-28 1948 Birthday Yuri Pimenov, U.S.S.R., coxless pair rowers 1976 Olympics silver 1947 Birthday Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut 1944 Birthday Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 26, 38, TM-2 1943 Birthday Yuri Fedorovich Isaulov, Russia, cosmonaut 1941 Birthday Yuri Vassilyevich Malyshev, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz T-2, T-11 1939 Birthday Yuri Nikolayevich Glazkov, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 24 1938 Birthday Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor, Kirov 1937 Birthday Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut 1936 Birthday Yuri Nikolayevich Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut 1936 Birthday Yuri Alexandrovich Falik, composer 1934 Birthday Yuri Gagarin, born in Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space, aboard Vostok 1 1932 Birthday Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, born in Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 18 backup 1930 Birthday Yuri Petrovich Artyukin, U.S.S.R., cosmonaut, Soyuz 14 1927 Birthday Yuri Grigorovich, Leningrad, choreographer 1926 Birthday Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russia, cosmonaut 1917 Birthday Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, U.S.S.R., director, Taganka 1914 Birthday Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary 1898 Birthday Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer, Birth of Hero, 1898 Birthday Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer, Birth of Hero, 1898 Death Yuri Arnold, composer, dies at 86 1891 Birthday Yuri Losmann, Estonia, marathon runner, Olympic-silver 1920 1811 Birthday Yuri Arnold, composer
