** Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer

** Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox monk and saint ( b. 1836 ).

** Nikolai Amosov, Ukrainian heart surgeon, inventor, best-selling author, and exercise enthusiast ( d. 2002 )

** Start, led by the goalkeeper Nikolai Trusevich, play football against the German Luftwaffe team Flakelf in Nazi-occupied Kiev.

** Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician ( b. 1837 )

** Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolai Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.

** Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia ( b. 1856 )

** Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian hockey player

** Nikolai Valuev, Russian heavyweight boxing champion

** Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke after an all-night dinner with Soviet Union interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev.

** Le Carnaval ( 1910 )— music by Robert Schumann ( orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatole Liadov, and Alexander Tcherepnin ), choreography by Michel Fokine, set and costumes by Leon Bakst.

** His Highness Prince Nikolai William Alexander Frederik of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, born on 28 August 1999.

** Men's all-around champion: Nikolai Andrianov, USSR

** Nikolai Gogol, Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer ( died 1852 )

** Nikolai Volkoff

** Million Dollar Corporation ( Irwin R. Schyster, Nikolai Volkoff, Ted DiBiase's Undertaker, Tatanka, Bam Bam Bigelow, Kama, King Kong Bundy, Sycho Sid, 1-2-3 Kid, Xanta Klaus )

** Cavalry-mechanised group under command of Lieutenant-General Nikolai Oslikovksy, including 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps

** NWA Florida Tag Team Championship ( 5 times ) – with Pat Patterson ( 1 ), Masa Saito ( 3 ), and Nikolai Volkoff ( 1 )

** Nikolai Mikhailovich Golushko, September 20, 1991 – November 6, 1991

** Nikolai ( 1873-1873 )

** Nikolai E. Mnev for Mnev's universality theorem, that every semialgebraic set is equivalent to the space of realizations of an oriented matroid.

** " The Adventures of Nikolai Dante " ( with Simon Fraser, in 2000 AD # 1035-1041, 1997 )

** " Bring Me the Head of Nikolai Dante " ( with John Burns, in 2000 AD Prog 2009, 2008 )

** " The Memoirs of Nikolai Dante " ( with Simon Fraser, in 2000 AD # 1731, 2011 )

** 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.