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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference in Finland several months after his space flight in 1961.

Announcement of the launch of the first artificial "sputnik" satellite by the Soviet Union.

Full Report of Yury Gagarin to the State Commission after his mission, on April 13, 1961.

AROOSTOOK LEATHERNECK IN KOREA -- Marine Sergeant Roger W. McCully, 21, straps Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, into his jet fighter-bomber at a base of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing in Korea. Sgt. McCully, a jet aircraft mechanic,…

Leathernecks take time out to inspect captured enemy equipment.

The USS Oklahoma is centered in the picture depicted as a dilapidated iron from following the profuse bombing by Japanese warplanes.

Torpedoed and bombed, the 7,050 ton light crusier USS Raleigh is held afloat near her anchorage in Pearl Harbor by a barge. The capsized USS Utah is in the background.

This document contains a first hand account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and how it was addressed by US officials.

This document contains a transcript of President Kennedy's speech addressing the Cuban Missile Crisis. It details the aftermath as well as the effect his speech had on the world.

Riding jackass backwards.