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EVERY day, the Queen sends an average 27 messages of congratulations to people across the Commonwealth who have reached 100 years of age. THE coldest temperature in the UK in the last half-century was minus 27c, recorded at the Braemar weather station in Scotland on January 10, 1982. RUSSIAN cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin was 27 when he became the first man in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his vostok 1 spacecraft in April 1961.