April 12: International Space Flight Day.
- International Space Flight Day, or the International Day of Human Space Flight, is celebrated annually on April 12.
- It commemorates the day Yuri Gagarin made the first human space flight in 1961.
Important Facts:
- A plastic park in Tamil Nadu is to be set up in Voyalur and Purumthivakkam villages in Ponneri taluk in Tiruvallur district.
- The central government has selected Thanjavur Municipal Corporation as the ‘No. 1’ municipal corporation in Tamil Nadu.
- The world’s first 3D-printed railway station was built in Japan in just 6 hours.
- Tamil Nadu has the highest number of medical colleges in the country. Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh are second in terms of India’s top medical institutions with 67 colleges each.
- India is hosting the Global Technology Summit in Delhi from April 10-12.
- Chief Minister M.K. Stalin inaugurated 326 library buildings and 199 classroom buildings constructed in various districts of Tamil Nadu.
- Former cricketer James Anderson was awarded the highest award by the UK government.
