On This Day

[ebee]

On that basis, would you say the Wright brothers were the first in space?

No, every normal person and animal were already in space, depending upon the qualifying yardstick then the wright brothers or some others were the first ones in outer space.
I reckon that Major Gagarin should qualify for first one into outer space really though.

 

[ebee]

Come on, I think when most say space they actually mean outer space really!

 

[ellal]

Here Ellal, here’s a hair. Can you split it for me…..

Ah, that'll explain your inability to read...

Age and failing eyesight

 

[King Billy]

The term is actually 'sub orbital space'.
Being in space is recognised as the Karman Line at 100km altitude.
Alan Shepherd was the first to go further at 187km very briefly, just before Gagarin made it to 'low Earth orbit'

Alan Sheppherd. Second man in space according to all experts except Ellal.

Maybe one day you'll learn to read the post and educate yourself...

It's very clear and obvious that you misquoted elall's post.
Your vindictive attitude is clouding your judgment.

 

[Odds]

1961: 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion within three days.

Some say JFK was assassinated in retaliation for the attempt(s) made on Castro's life.

In 1969, a jury in Los Angeles convicted Sirhan Sirhan of assassinating Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. (Sirhan’s death sentence would be commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole. He remains in prison today.)

 

[ellal]

On this day a black teenager (Stephen Lawrence) was murdered by white racists...

Sadly nothing has changed, since we still have politicians whipping up racial hatred for their own ends and simply because of a person's skin colour, ethnicity, or religion!