12th April 1961

[AndyHB]

OK, what were you doing on this history-making day?  I doubt you were doing anything quite as exciting as Gagarin!!

[administrator]

OK, what were you doing on this history-making day?  I doubt you were doing anything quite as exciting as Gagarin!!

I was still in the pre-life at that time... 

[tranchiebabe]

I was eleven years old at the time. I remember how exciting it all was.

[EliB]

I decided to wait another 10.5 years to be born........

But definitely a history making day....

[AndrewF]

I was not yet 5 years old - so I was living in Rome (to be more precise in Trastevere - which is the Roman equivalent of London's East End) and going to school at the Irish Christan Brethren school, being driven there in an Embassy car as my father was Deputy Military Attache...