** 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.

** Kalevipoeg by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald ( 1853 Estonian mythology )

** Eesti keel ja meel *(" Estonian Language and Mind ").

** Estonian rulers

** Estonian mark, Estonian currency from 1919 to 1928

** Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic ( b. 1889 )

** Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian – German chess player ( b. 1916 )

** Mihkel Mathiesen, Estonian statesman ( d. 2003 )

** Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and filmmaker ( b. 1892 )

** Aleksander Uurits, Estonian painter and graphic artist ( b. 1888 )

** Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir conductor ( b. 1908 )

** Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander ( d. 1976 )

** Ita Ever, Estonian actress

** Jüri Uluots, Estonian statesman ( b. 1890 )

** Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist

** Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi ( d. 1969 )

** Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower

** Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander ( b. 1889 )

** Eduard Pütsep, Estonian wrestler ( b. 1898 )

** Johannes Sikkar, Estonian politician ( b. 1897 )

** August Gailit, Estonian writer ( b. 1891 )

** Estonian War of Independence: The Soviet Red Army meets resistance from Estonian forces.

** Estonian War of Independence: The Red Army is expelled from the entire territory of Estonia.