Machu Picchu is the hispanicized spellingof the Quechua name Machu Pikchu. It means old peak (Quechua machu old + pikchu peak).
In April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's spacecraft was launched at 9:07, orbited Earth once and landed at 10:55 in the Soviet Union.
A+E Networks. Following the death of long-time Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev two days earlier, Yuri Andropov is selected as the new general secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union.