** Leaders of the Soviet Union

** President of the Soviet Union

** Premier of the Soviet Union

** Theatre of the Soviet Union

** 114. flerovium, Fl, named after Soviet physicist Georgy Flyorov, founder of the JINR ( 1999 ).

** The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.

** Soviet military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany ; the 3 U. S. flyers parachute to safety.

** U. S. President Lyndon Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.

** British businessman Greville Wynne, imprisoned in Moscow since 1963 for spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale.

** Spain beats the Soviet Union 2 – 1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup.

** Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 )-Although taking place almost entirely throughout the 1980s, the war officially started on December 27, 1979.

** The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

** Soviet Union invades Poland, Finland, occupies Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Romanian region of Bessarabia from 1939 to 1941.

** Germany attacks the Soviet Union ( June 22, 1941 ).

** Yalta Conference, wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively — for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization, intended to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe.

** A variety of Soviet space program paraphernalia are put to auction in Sotheby's New York, and sell for a total of US $ 6. 8M.

** Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or COMECON ) established by Soviet Union and other communist nations.

** The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, code named " Joe 1 ".

** Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast

** Konstantin Chernenko, President of the Soviet Union ( d. 1985 )

** Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.

** Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

** The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.

** The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.

** Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.

** John Gardner, English spy novelist ( d. 2007 )

** Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the " Uncrowned Queen of Iraq " ( b. 1868 )

** Kenji Doihara, spy ( b. 1883 )

** The Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko comes forward with numerous documents implicating the Soviet Union in numerous spy rings in North America: both in the United States and in Canada.

** Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

** Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in a British prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

** Several Soviet surface-to-air missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane.

** While working as a spy for the police, Adolf Hitler is ordered to monitor the German Workers Party.

** Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy ( b. 1891 )

** Jack Agazarian, English WWII spy ( d. 1945 )

** The first SR-71 Blackbird spy plane goes into service at Beale AFB.

** British spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison ; he is next seen in Moscow.

** Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy ( d. 1972 )

** Roméo Sabourin, Canadian World War II spy ( d. 1944 )

** Nick Carter-Killmaster, a spy series of novels named for the fictional detective

** Kajiwara Kagetoki ( 景時 梶原 ), officially an ally of Yoshitsune, in fact a spy for Yoritomo.

** Escape method: Bond bluffs Goldfinger, and persuades him that his replacement " 008 " also knows about Goldfinger's plans and that Bond's death will immediately summon him to investigate, so Goldfinger elects to not take the chance of another spy coming on the scene to interfere, which he can avoid by holding Bond captive.

** Yakichiro Suma, Japan's Ambassador to Spain, Chief of the Japanese spy network code named " TO ".

** Henry Thomas Harrison ( Confederate spy )

** 23 June 2005: Fake spy created ' web of deceit '

** 23 June 2005: Fake spy guilty of kidnapping con

** 6 September 2005: ' Evil ' bogus spy jailed for life