Images Dated 14th July 2011

Vostok 1 Soviet spacecraft

Vostok (Russian ос??ок, translated as "East") was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM designed for the humanspaceflight programme but later used for other sputnik launches. It was a subset of the R-7 family of rockets.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in outer space and the first man to orbit the Earth. He was launched onboard Vostok-1 at 8:07 Moscov Time and landed at 9:55 Moscov Time after a parachute egress near Saratow close to Smelovka on a field

© Detlev van Ravenswaay

Members of the Royal Family at Covent Garden

A gala opera performance at Covent Garden is attended by the Queen and the President of Portugal (in the centre). To the left is the Queen Mother and behind her are Sir Anthony and Lady Eden. To the right of the Queen are Madame Craveiro Lopes, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Margaret. Behind him are Princess Alexandra and the Duchess of Kent. Date: 1955

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Ukraine. Kiev. Verkhovna Rada, Parliament building

Ukraine. Kiev. Verkhovna Rada, Parliament building. The original building was constructed from 1936-38. Destroyed in the Second World War, it was reconstructed in its original style in 1945-1947

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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