** 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.

** Ai Siqi ( 1910 – 1966 ), philosopher and author

** based on a novel by Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø

** based on a novel by Chilean author Isabel Allende.

** based on a novel by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf.

** based on the novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Danish author Peter Høeg.

** based on the novel of the same name by French author Victor Hugo.

** Zhuangzi, said to be the author of the Zhuangzi.

** Liezi, said to be the author of the Liezi.

** Edward Levett Darwin ( 1821 – 1901 ), solicitor and author

** Robert Waring Darwin of Elston ( 1724 – 1816 ), author of Principia Botanica

** Randal Keynes, descendant of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ) and author of Annie's Box

** Ruodlieb ( Latin ), by a German author

** Anaïs Nin, French author ( b. 1903 )

** Bret Easton Ellis, American author

** Caitlín R. Kiernan, Irish-American author and paleontologist

** Dan Brown, American author

** Anne Provoost, Belgian author

** Diane Setterfield, British author

** Cork Graham, American author

** Tove Jansson, Finnish author ( b. 1914 )

** Shel Silverstein, American author and poet ( b. 1930 )

** Irwin Shaw, American author ( b. 1913 )

** Richard Brautigan, American counter-culture author ( suicide ) ( b. 1935 )

** Josep Romaguera, Catalan author ( d. 1723 )

** Clifton Hillegass, American author, founder of CliffsNotes ( d. 2001 )