The first woman flew into space when the Beatles had released just one album.
Please Please Me came out in March 1963; Valentina Tereshkova launched on 16 June.
The events
- Valentina Tereshkova's spaceflight1963 · Baikonur. On 16 June 1963 Vostok 6 lifted off from Baikonur with Valentina Tereshkova aboard. She became the first woman in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times in almost three days.
- The Beatles' first album1963 · London. In March 1963 the Liverpool quartet released their debut album, recorded at Abbey Road in a single day. Beatlemania followed, and the Beatles went on to transform popular music and youth culture worldwide.
More amazing facts
- 1961 Gagarin flew into space in April 1961; that August, the Berlin Wall went up.
- 1962 · 1963 Decca Records turned the Beatles down.
- 1963 Valentina Tereshkova is the only woman ever to fly in space alone.
- 1963 The Moscow–Washington hotline was once cut by a Finnish farmer's plough and another time by a Danish bulldozer.
- 1964 The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the first broadcast overseas without flying tapes across.
- 1964 · 1978 The echo of the Big Bang was first blamed on pigeon droppings.