** Altenberg, the German name for Vieille Montagne (" old mountain " in French ), the former zinc mine in Kelmis, Moresnet

** T15 / E1 / E2: Series of mine resistant Shermans based on the T14 kit.

** Mine Exploder T2 Flail: British Crab I mine flail.

** Mine Exploder T4: British Crab II mine flail.

** Improved version of BMR-2 that has been seen fitted with a wide variety of mine roller designs.

** A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop coal mine in Bishop, Virginia kills 37 men.

** Sir Harry Oakes, American-born English gold mine owner ( murdered ) ( b. 1874 )

** A Texaco oil rig breaks through to a mine under Lake Peigneur.

** Miike Coal Mine explosion: In Japan, a coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends 839 carbon monoxide poisoning victims to the hospital.

** A coal mine explosion in West Virginia kills 50 miners.

** The USS Samuel B. Roberts ( FFG-58 ) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the Tanker War phase of the Iran – Iraq War.

** A mine kills 3 Israeli paratroopers on the West Bank border.

** A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan kills 237.

** At 5: 50 a. m. a ground fault gives way, causing the mine and part of the town of Worthington to collapse into a large chasm located in Ontario.

** A passenger bus hits a remote-controlled land mine in the Chechen capital, killing at least 8.

** Oksøy class mine hunter ( 1994 )

** Alta class mine sweeper ( 1996 ):

** Land mine

** Piatra Tomii, a prehistoric chert mine in Alba County, Romania

** From the Elmwood mine, near Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee

** the Eagle mine, Gilman district, Eagle County, Colorado

** The Titania open pit mine ( top right ) and the Jøssingfjord ( bottom left )

** TM-46 mine

** 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.