** Samogitian (~ 0. 5 million speakers ; usually considered a dialect of Lithuanian )

** List of Lithuanian rulers

** Lithuanian Sighthound Club

** Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager

** Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis, Lithuanian military leader ( b. 1897 )

** Vytautas Juozapaitis, Lithuanian baritone, pedagogue ( professor ) and TV host

** Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer ( d. 2007 )

** Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.

** Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player

** Zivile Balciunaite, Lithuanian long-distance runner

** Albrycht Stanisław Radziwiłł, Lithuanian chancellor ( d. 1656 )

** Polish and Lithuanian nobles elect Sigismund III Vasa as their king.

** Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince ( d. 1608 )

** The Union of Krewo establishes the Jagiellonian dynasty in Poland and Lithuania through the proposed marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland and Grand Duke Jagiello of Lithuania, and sees the acceptance of Roman Catholicism by the Lithuanian elite.

** David of Hrodna, Lithuanian military leader

** Lithuanian: Kunigaikštis / Kunigaikštienė – Princas / Princese

** List of Lithuanian household gods

** Lithuanian partisans-in World War II and after

** Martynas Mažvydas-The Simple Words of Catechism ( first printed book in Lithuanian )

** Lithuanian – Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic ( February – August 1919 ).

** List of Lithuanian household gods

** from PIE * pizda (" vulva "), cf Lithuanian " pizda " and Albanian " pidh ".

** Lithuanian SSR

** LLES, Lithuanian Labour Education Society

** 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.