Timeline Wednesday 27 March 1968

Events on Wednesday 27 March 1968 2

• 1934 – 1968 Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) Died 27 March 1968, aged 34 The first human to travel into space, having orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1 in 1961, died when the MiG-15 jet fighter he was piloting on a routine training flight crashed near Kirzhach, Russia. The exact cause of the crash remains disputed. His death was mourned as a national loss in the Soviet Union.
• 1968 Yuri Gagarin dies in a MiG-15 crash Near Kirzhach, Soviet Union The first man in space is killed with his instructor Vladimir Seryogin when their MiG-15UTI trainer crashes during a routine training flight.