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Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 902
1523-01-29 - Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1895-05-07 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
1916-11-16 - USSR La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000
1918-01-14 - Finland & USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1918-02-05 - Separation of church & state begins in USSR
1918-02-14 - USSR adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1)
1920-02-02 - Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence
1920-04-28 - Azerbaijan SSR joins USSR (1st time)
1920-05-07 - USSR recognizes Georgia's independence
1920-07-12 - Lithuania & USSR sign peace treaty, Lithuania becomes independent rep
1920-08-11 - 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia
1920-10-14 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1922-04-16 - German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1922-12-20 - 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
1922-12-30 - Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
1923-03-21 - US foreign minister Charles Hughes refuses USSR recognition
1923-05-31 - China & USSR exchange diplomats
1923-10-06 - USSR adopts experimental calendar
1923-11-06 - USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924-02-01 - New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
1924-02-01 - Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini
1924-02-07 - Benito Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with USSR
1924-03-17 - Netherlands & USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1924-03-17 - Sweden & USSR exchange diplomats
1924-03-27 - Canada recognizes USSR
1924-05-02 - Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
1924-08-28 - Georgian opposition stages the August Uprising against the Soviet Union.
1924-10-27 - The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1924-11-21 - British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR
1925-01-20 - USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR
1925-02-25 - The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.
1925-06-16 - The most famous Young Pioneer camp of the USSR, Artek, is established.
1925-07-10 - USSR's official news agency TASS forms
1925-11-06 - Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1927-04-15 - Switzerland & USSR agree to diplomatic relations
1927-05-02 - Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin
1927-12-27 - Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
1928-01-10 - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1928-08-13 - Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins
1928-09-06 - USSR signs Briand-Kellogg-pact
1928-10-01 - USSR launches its 1st 5 year plan
1929-02-09 - USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
1929-07-17 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
1929-10-03 - British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
1930-01-30 - The world's first radiosonde is launched in Pavlovsk, USSR.
1930-06-16 - Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
1931-03-11 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1931-06-15 - Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty
1931-06-24 - USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1931-08-24 - France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1932-01-21 - USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty
US Secretary of State Frank Kellogg
1932-06-29 - USSR & China sign no attack treaty
1932-10-10 - Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
1932-10-19 - British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union
1932-10-24 - British government signs trade treaty with USSR
1932-11-27 - Poland & USSR signs non-attack treaty
1932-11-28 - France & USSR signs not-attack treaty
1932-11-29 - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
1932-11-29 - USSR & France sign no attack treaty
1932-12-12 - USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
1933-02-06 - -90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
1933-05-06 - Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
1933-07-28 - Spain recognizes the USSR
1933-08-17 - Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1933-09-03 - Yevgeniy Abalakov reaches the highest point of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7495 m).
1933-11-16 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1933-11-17 - United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade
1933-11-21 - 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934-01-13 - The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
1934-06-10 - USSR & Romania regain diplomatic relations
1934-09-12 - Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR
1934-09-17 - USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz & Portugal vote no)
1934-09-18 - USSR admitted to League of Nations
1935-07-12 - Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
1935-07-24 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
1935-10-22 - Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
1935-12-28 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
1936-12-05 - Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union
1937-03-07 - Bucharin, Jagoda & Rykov pushed out of CPSU in USSR
1937-06-12 - USSR executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
1937-08-06 - US & USSR sign trade treaty
1938-03-02 - Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union
1939-08-23 - USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
1939-08-23 - Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1939-08-24 - Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1939-09-17 - Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1939-09-28 - Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender
1939-10-30 - USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews
1939-11-29 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
1939-11-30 - USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
1939-12-14 - Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
1940-06-17 - USSR occupies Estonia
1940-06-26 - End of USSR experimental calendar; Gregorian readopted 6/27
1940-06-27 - USSR returns to Gregorian calendar
1940-06-28 - Romania cedes Bessarabia to Soviet Union
1940-07-21 - Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
1940-08-03 - Lithuanian SSR is accepted into USSR
1940-08-25 - Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union
1941-04-13 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1941-06-22 - Germany attacks the Soviet Union & occupies the Baltic states
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 209
1845-05-15 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
1870-04-22 - Nikolai Lenin, [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov], Bolshevik/USSR revolutionist
1878-12-18 - Joseph Stalin [Josef], Gori, Russian Empire, Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-1953), (d. 1953)
1881-02-04 - Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president USSR (1953-60)
1888-04-26 - Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR, astronomer
1889-07-30 - Vladimir K Zworykin, USSR, electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV
1891-01-25 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador to USSR
1891-11-15 - W Averell Harriman, US, (Gov-D-NY)/ambassador to USSR (1943-46)
1894-04-15 - Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Kalinovka, Dmitriyevsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64)
1895-06-11 - Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
1895-10-04 - Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II)
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev (1894-04-15)
1897-12-02 - Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1903-02-18 - Nikolaj V Podgorny, pres USSR (1965-77)
1905-05-24 - Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965)
1906-12-19 - Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82)
1907-09-26 - Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for USSR
1908-11-14 - Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author (50th Anniv of Soviet Union)
1909-05-14 - Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950)
1909-07-05 - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/18 NS]
1909-07-18 - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS]
1911-04-17 - Mikhail Botvinnik, of USSR, world chess champion (1948-63)
1911-09-24 - Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader
1916-01-07 - Paul Keres, USSR, chess grandmaster (1950)
1917-09-30 - Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, USSR, director (Taganka)
1919-01-23 - Nina Dumbadze, USSR, Discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952)
1920-07-20 - Lev Aronin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1950)
1921-04-15 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1921-10-17 - Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921-11-09 - Viktor Chukarin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1923-11-06 - Aleksandra Chudina, USSR, track jumper (Olympic-2 silver-1952)
1925-06-26 - Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II)
1925-08-28 - Arkadi N Strugazki, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika)
1925-10-25 - Yakov Rylskly, USSR, sabre team (Olympic-bronze-1956)
1926-02-07 - Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1926-09-25 - Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1926-10-25 - Galina Vishnevskaya, Leningrad, USSR, soprano opera singer, (d. 2012)
1927-01-14 - Ivan Kalita, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1968)
1927-03-27 - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
1927-12-08 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
1928-01-25 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet Georgia, foreign minister of USSR (-91)
1928-02-23 - Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A)
1928-05-23 - Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records)
1928-09-06 - Rudolph Plukfelder, USSR, light heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1929-04-27 - Nina Ponomareva Romaschkova, USSR, discus thrower (Oly-gold-1952, 60)
1929-05-14 - Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
1929-06-17 - Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
Gymnast Sofia Muratova (1929-07-19)
1929-07-19 - Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006)
1929-08-17 - Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)
1929-08-27 - Elizabeta Bagrintseve, USSR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1952)
1929-09-05 - Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok III, Soyuz 9)
1929-09-28 - Nikolay Ryzhkov, Premier of USSR (1985-1991)
1930-02-11 - Alevtina Koltschina, USSR, cross coutry relay skier (Oly-gold-1960)
1930-07-20 - Yuri Petrovich Artyukin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 14)
1931-01-22 - Galina Zybina, USSR, discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58)
1931-02-01 - Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1931-03-02 - Mikhail Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1985-91)
1931-04-29 - Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
1931-05-04 - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
1931-11-23 - Yevgeni Grischin, USSR, 500m/1500m speed skater (Oly-gold-1956, 60)
1932-02-03 - Maria Itkina, USSR, sprinter (9 world records)
1932-03-10 - Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1972)
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-03-02)
1932-05-17 - Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to USSR
1932-05-25 - Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
1932-09-18 - Valery Viktorovich Ryumin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32/34, 35/37)
1932-10-23 - Vasily Belov, Northern Krai,USSR, author (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), (d. 2012)
1933-01-16 - Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A, 27, T-3)
1933-04-15 - Boris Strugatski, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika)
1933-06-19 - Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1933-09-10 - Yevgeny Vassilyevich Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5)
1934-02-08 - Galina Bystrova, USSR, pentathelete (1957, 58)
1934-05-30 - Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19)
1934-07-13 - Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10)
1934-08-25 - Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39)
1934-11-26 - Ludmila Shevtsova, USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934-12-03 - Viktor Vassilyevich Gorbatko, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 24, 37/36)
1934-12-18 - Boris Valentinovich Volynov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
1935-02-01 - Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
1935-07-08 - Vitali Ivanovich Sevastiyanov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 9, 18B)
1935-08-03 - Georgi Stepanovich Shonin, Odessa USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 6)
1935-09-11 - Gherman Stepanovich Titov, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok II)
1935-11-22 - Ludmila Belousova Protopopov, USSR, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68)
1936-01-14 - Ludmila Pinayeva, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1964, 1968, 1972)
1936-06-02 - Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR, 20K walker (Olympic-gold-1960, 68)
1937-01-30 - Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
1937-02-10 - Yuriy Poyarkov, USSR, volleyball player (Oly-2 gold/1 silver-1964-72)
1937-04-18 - Tatyana Shchelkanova, USSR, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1937-05-10 - Tamara Press, USSR, shot putter/discus thrower (Oly-gold-60)
1937-06-18 - Vitaly Mikhailovich Zholobov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)
1937-09-16 - Aleksandr Medved, USSR, super heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1964 68, 72)
1937-11-26 - Boris Borisovich Yegorov, USSR, doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1938-02-11 - Boris Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
1938-02-11 - Yevgeniy Majorov, USSR, ice hockey (Olympic-gold-1964)
1938-05-25 - Ludmil Buldakova, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1938-06-24 - Boris Lagutin, USSR, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1938-07-30 - Vayachselav Ivanenko, USSR, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1988)
1938-08-19 - Valentin Mankin, USSR, finn class yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1968)
1939-02-13 - Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1939-03-08 - Lydia Skoblikova, USSR, speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64)
1939-03-10 - Irina Press, USSR, 80m hurdles/Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
1939-04-03 - Vitaliy Davidov, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 1 of 1
1961-04-30 - Lee Harvey Oswald marries Marina Prusakova in Minsk USSR
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 17 of 17
1449-10-27 - Ulugh Beg, a USSR astronomer, dies at 56
1937-06-12 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1953-03-05 - Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-53), dies at 73
1963-09-01 - Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR
1967-02-15 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76
1968-03-07 - Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin, USSR cosmonaut (Vostok I), dies at 31
1969-12-02 - Kliment J Voroshilov, president USSR (1953-60), dies
1970-01-10 - Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44
1975-02-24 - Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
1983-01-11 - Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at 79
1983-03-26 - Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin (1953-03-05)
1985-03-10 - Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/pres of USSR (1984-85), dies at 73
1988-01-14 - Georgy M Malenkov, PM of USSR (1953-55), dies at 86
1990-06-05 - Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85), dies
1991-08-22 - Boris Pugo, USSR minister of Interior (1990), commits suicide
1995-06-30 - Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3), dies at 74
2003-03-30 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
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