"If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!"
— Yuri Gagarin

January 1, 1970

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Asking for the roof of his car to be put back despite the pouring rain, during his visit to Manchester (12 July 1961), as quoted in "Yuri Gagarin: Mankind's first giant leap" in The Economist (3 August 2011)