** Andersonville National Historic Site, Confederate POW prison camp in Georgia holding Union POWs

** European Union under negotiation

** Canterbury Rugby Football Union, the governing body for rugby union in the central Canterbury region

** Amicus Brief on the Merits ( American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America )

** Windows XP Home Edition N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by a European Union ruling

** Windows XP Professional N, as above, but without a default installation of Windows Media Player, as mandated by a European Union ruling

** Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( Yaketi Nishtimani Kurdistan )-led by Jalal Talabani

** Kurdistan Islamic Union ( Yekîtiya Islamiya Kurdistan )

** African Mathematical Union ( AMU )

** Andrew Johnson, Democrat / National Union, was impeached in 1868 after violating the then-newly created Tenure of Office Act.

** Law of the European Union

** Governors, Lieutenant Governors and Administrators of Indian States and Union Territories

** Leaders of the Soviet Union

** President of the Soviet Union

** Premier of the Soviet Union

** Union College, New York.

** Theatre of the Soviet Union

** The Avengers ( Radio series ), a Union of South Africa radio show ca 1976 with the same characters and similar plots as the earlier TV show appearing several times a week in serialized format.

** In Alameda County: Fremont, Newark, and Union City are referred to as the Tri-City Area.

** The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.

** Spain beats the Soviet Union 2 – 1 to win the 1964 European Nations Cup.

** The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

** Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8, 000 people outright and injures over half a million ( with more later dying from their injuries the death toll is now 23, 000 +) in the worst industrial disaster in history.

** Hosea Gear, New Zealand Rugby Union player

** War in Somalia ( 2006 – 2009 ) – involved largely Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government ( TFG ) forces whom fought against the Somali Islamist umbrella group, the Islamic Court Union ( ICU ), and other affiliated militias for control of the country.

** Kurdistan Communist Party ( Partiya Komunîst Kurdistan )

** Iraqi Communist Party-led by Hamid Majid Mousa

** General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam

** List of Communist parties

** The Spartacist League founds the German Communist Party.

** Vasil Biľak, former Slovak Communist leader

** Red Scare: Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

** Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are removed from the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

** Communist guerrillas kill 3 rubber planters in Malaya.

** The attempted assassination of Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, incites numerous strikes all over the country.

** Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China

** Romanian general election, 1946: The Romanian Communist Party wins 79. 86 % of the vote through widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud.

** The National Assembly of Bulgaria votes to end one party rule by the Bulgarian Communist Party.

** The Communist Party of the Soviet Union votes to end its monopoly of power, clearing the way for multiparty elections.

** Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovakian Communist Politician ( d. 1953 )

** Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader ( b. 1899 )

** Gus Hall, American Communist Leader ( d. 2000 )

** The Communist Party of China issues the ' May 16 Notice ', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

** In the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong begins the Cultural Revolution to purge and reorganize China's Communist Party.

** CPSU, and its republic-level division, Communist Party of the Russian SFSR, banned in the Russian SFSR by Presidential decree N 169.

** Charilaos Florakis is elected honorary president of the Communist Party of Greece.

** Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal, Mongolian Communist leader, former Party General Secretary, Prime Minister and Head of State ( b. 1916 )

** The Italian Communist Party is founded in Livorno.

** The Communist Party of China is officially founded.

** Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U. S. President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as " a maneuver to deceive world opinion.