** 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.

** British liner becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by in the eastern Atlantic.

** The ocean liner catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS Lafayette ( AP-53 ) for WWII.

** British luxury liner leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic

** The Spanish liner Santa Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia ; 244 die.

** The Italian liner T / S Michelangelo enters into service.

** The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.

** Komagata Maru, a Japanese steam liner denied entry to Vancouver, Canada in 1914

** Rachel Barton Pine ( Violin ), Carlos Kalmar ( Conductor ), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cedille Records: CDR 90000 068 ( liner notes )

** Himalaya-an 1850s passenger liner, which served for many years as a troopship and later as a coal or fuel barge in the centre of the harbour

** RMS Laconia ( 1911 ), 1911 – 1917, ocean liner and armed merchant ship, sunk in WW I by a German U-boat

** RMS Laconia ( 1921 ), 1921 – 1942, British ocean liner and troop ship, sunk in WW II while carrying civilians and Italian POWs by a German U-boat ; the attacking U-boat and other U-boats joined it to rescue survivors but then themselves came under attack from American bomber planes and abandoned the rescue

** TSMS Lakonia, 1929 – 1963, ocean liner and troop ship, evacuated while on fire during a cruise in 1963, sunk seven days later while being towed to Gibraltar

** CSX Lines, LLC ( Domestic liner, sold and renamed Horizon Lines, Inc .)

** Sea-Land Corporation ( International liner, sold to the A. P. Moller-Maersk Group in 1999 )

** Buzz Osborne-vocals, guitar, liner notes on 1999 Ipecac reissue

** RKG-3M Shaped charge liner changed to copper.

**, an ocean liner taken over and used as a transport ship in World War I and World War II

** Dove's chariot ( Chariot XVI ) put its warhead on the Italian troop ship Viminale ( formerly a liner ), by tying it to the sternpost with ropes, causing severe damage but not sinking it.