* 1978 – Mir Akbar Khyber was assassinated, provoking a communist coup d ' état in Afghanistan.

He was introduced to Marxism by Mir Akbar Khyber during his imprisonment for activities deemed too radical by the government.

In 1948, Pasternak advised Ivinskaya to resign her job at Novy Mir, which was becoming extremely difficult due to their relationship.

In a subsequent letter to the daughter of Marina Tsvetaeva, Pasternak explained that the attack was motivated by the fact that the supernatural elements of the play, which Novy Mir considered, " irrational ," had been translated as Goethe had written them.

Several other fictional books were invented by the same author, including an entire bibliography for the fictional author Pierre Menard, as well as an imaginary novel, purportedly written by a Bombay lawyer named Mir Bahadur Ali, entitled " The Approach to Al-Mu ' tasim ," which was " reviewed " by Borges in his story of the same name.

As disillusionment set in, in 1978 a prominent member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), Mir Akbar Khyber ( or " Kaibar "), was killed by the government.

Shah Mir was the First Muslim ruler of Kashmir and the founder of the Swati dynasty named after him.

Shah Mir was succeeded by his eldest son Jamshid, but he was deposed by his brother Ali Sher probably within few months, who ascended the throne under the name of Alauddin Following the Shahmiri Dynasty, was the Chak Dynasty that ruled until Mughal conquest in 1586.

In 1948, the Khan of Qalat, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan, decided to join Pakistan on request of Muhammad Ali Jinnah ( founder of Pakistan ), and decision was made that defence, currency, foreign office and finance will be controlled by federal govt.

* 1707-1709 — Loya jirga was gathered by Mir Wais Hotak at Kandahar in 1707, but according to Ghulam Mohammad Ghobar it was gathered in Manja in 1709.

While he was encamped in Baghdad, Murad IV is known to have met the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's ambassadors: Mir Zarif and Mir Baraka, who presented 1000 pieces of finely embroidered cloth and even armor.

The city and region became part of the Afghan Durrani Empire in around 1750 when after an agreement was signed between Mir Muhammad Murad Beg and Ahmad Shah Durrani Poplezai, the founding father of Afghanistan.

From the 15th century onward, the area was ruled by the Rind ( tribe ) which was headed by Mir Chakar Rind.

It was here that the Nepalese defeated superior forces of Mir Kassim in 1763 and seized 500 guns and two cannons.

The battle against Mir Kassim troops was the first battle of the Royal Nepalese Army against a foreign power.

Mir Kassim's renowned warrior, Gurgin Khan was the commander on the other side with approximately 2, 500 troops with cannons, guns, ammunition and a very good logistics back up.

Once Air-chief Marshal Pervez Kureshi was retired, the most junior air marshal Muschaf Mir ( who worked with Musharraf in 1996 to assist ISI in Taliban matters ) was appointed to four-star rank as well as elevated as Chief of Air Staff.

Ayatollah Khomeini's paternal grandfather, Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, was born in Kintoor and was a contemporary and relative of the famous scholar Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi.

Throwing off his allegiance to Kabul when Timur Shah Durrani was marching against Sindh and Kashmir, Mizrab Bi grandson of Muhammad Bi ( old Chief of Kunduz ) uniting with Chief of Kubab attacked Kabad Khan, seized him and gave him to Mir Muhammad Shah who put him to death to avenge his father Mir Muhammad Shah returned to Badakhshan to find throne occupied by Bahadur Shah son of a former Chief who had taken Faizabad during captivity of Mir Muhammad Shah in Kunduz.

A new distribution was made of country Mir Shah occupied Fayzabad as supreme ruler of Badakhshan.

From 1941 through 1944, Mir was occupied by Nazi Germany, then again by the Soviet Union until 1991, when it became part of independent Belarus.

Pasternak submitted the novel to " Новый Мир " ( Novy Mir ), which refused publication for its rejection of socialist realism.

There are also commercial deposits being actively mined in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Siberia ( mostly in Yakutia territory ; for example, Mir pipe and Udachnaya pipe ), Brazil, and in Northern and Western Australia.

* 1995 – Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission ( Atlantis ) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.

* 1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir.

* Capture and conviction of Mir Aimal Kasi for the 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters.

In New York City he wrote articles for the local Russian language socialist newspaper Novy Mir and the Yiddish language daily Der Forverts ( The Forward ) in translation and made speeches to Russian émigrés.

Ottoman-Somali cooperation against the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean reached a high point in the 1580s when Ajuuraan clients of the Somali coastal cities began to symphatize with the Arabs and Swahilis under Portuguese rule and sent an envoy to the Turkish corsair Mir Ali Bey for a joint expedition against the Portuguese.

* January 23 – Mir Aimal Kasi is sentenced to death for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed 2 and wounded 3.

** STS-71: Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time.

The duration record for a single spaceflight is 437. 7 days, set by Valeriy Polyakov aboard Mir from 1994 to 1995., three astronauts have completed single missions of over a year, all aboard Mir.

The report presents a statement from an unnamed Russian engineer who believes that, based on the experience from Mir, a thirty-year life should be possible, except for micrometeorite damage, because the Russian modules have been built with on-orbit refurbishment in mind.

* Nawab Khwaja Abid Siddiqi and Nawab Qaziuddin Siddiqi, grandfather and father of Mir Qamaruddin Siddiqi Asaf Jah I whose dynasty ruled Hyderabad Deccan for seven generations from 1724 to 1951

Finally, the Progress series of unmanned cargo ships for the Salyut and Mir space laboratories used the automatic navigation and docking mechanism ( but not the re-entry capsule ) of Soyuz.

Mir Muhammad Murad Beg and Kokan Beg often fought with each other over territory inconclusively while battling against rebels in their own respective territories for years.

The instigator of the murder had been fascinated by the extraordinary beauty of the wife of Mir Yar Beg and was impelled by his passion for the lady to accomplish the death of her husband.

Mir Jahandar Shah of Badakhshan never asked forgiveness for hostilities to Amir Sher Ali Khan with Azam Khan and failed to wait on Governor of Balkh at Takhtapul.

Most of these cosmonauts received full training for their missions and were treated as equals, but especially after the Mir program began, were generally given shorter flights than Soviet cosmonauts.

Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the largest artificial satellite orbiting the Earth until its deorbit on 21 March 2001 ( a record now surpassed by the International Space Station ).

Mir served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology and spacecraft systems in order to develop technologies required for the permanent occupation of space.

The Mir programme held the record for the longest uninterrupted human presence in space, at 3, 644 days, until 23 October 2010 ( when it was surpassed by the ISS ), and it currently holds the record for the longest single human spaceflight, of Valeri Polyakov, at 437 days 18 hours.