** 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.

** " ABC " ( Jin song ), Jin's first single off his 4th album " ABC " ( American-born Chinese )

** Ai Weiwei ( born 1957 ), Chinese artist, curator, architectural designer, cultural and social commentator, dissident, disappeared April 2011

** Urinary bladder ( Chinese medicine )

** Chinese character, a written language symbol ( sinogram ) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages

** Zhonghua minzu （ 中華民族 ）, the supra-ethnic Chinese nationality

** Han Chinese, the dominant ethnic group in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore

** Ethnic minorities in China, the non-Han Chinese population in China

** Overseas Chinese, people of Chinese ancestry who live outside mainland China and Taiwan

** Standard Chinese, the standard form of the Chinese language in China, Taiwan and Singapore, and the variety most commonly taught as a foreign language

** other varieties of Chinese

** Chinese classics or Chinese canonical texts

** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

** Sanda ( Sanshou ) ( Chinese Boxing ) – The applicable component of wushu / kung fu of which takedowns and throws are legal in competition as well as all other sorts of striking ( use of arms and legs ).

** Finger tapping in Chinese tea culture

** New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries

** Chinese sovereigns

** Table of Chinese monarchs

** The Table of Chinese monarchs China

** Chinese 8 %

** Han Chinese ( people, language )

** Chinese Grey Shrike, Lanius sphenocercus