Stalin and Ribbentrop traded toasts on the night of the signing discussing past hostilities between the countries.

" Nonetheless, a few hours after the conviction, Stalin ordered their execution for that night.

He further described Ustinov as a man who was very passionate about his work, and like Stalin, Ustinov had a habit of working late at night and sleeping for a couple of hours during the day.

On August 23, 1939, a German delegation headed by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop arrived to Moscow, and in the following night the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed by him and his Soviet colleague Vyacheslav Molotov, in the presence of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

One night, Stalin heard a performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 on the radio performed by Yudina and asked for a copy.

It was a live broadcast so officials woke up Yudina, drove her to a recording studio where a small orchestra had quickly been assembled, and made her record the concerto in the middle of the night, a single copy was pressed from the matrix and then presented to Stalin ( the matrix has survived and the recording has been available on CD ).

The KRN was created on the night of 31 December 1943 on the initiative of Joseph Stalin and the newly recreated ( after the destruction of Communist Party of Poland ( KPP ) in Stalin's pre-war Great Purge ) Polish communist party, the Polish Workers ' Party ( PPR ).

The early 1950s when Left Wing Communists, were purged completely at all levels of the CPC, to Stalin ’ s birthday in 1951 where Mao is reported to have ordered the execution of some 50, 000 intellectuals, women communists, straight and gay communist men and lesbians and 3rd gender were executed in one night – mainly shot in their bunks at the camps they survived.

The daughter replied, `` Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it.

When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace ( no name given ) forged by four dwarves ( named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer ), she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them.

Five years later when asked for his view of the rule change, the current president, Stephen Jones, replied, " I've never been more proud of my dad than the night he ... lifted that policy.

Through the night of the 22nd to dawn of the 23rd, Mullá Husayn became the first to accept the Báb's claims as the gateway to Truth and the initiator of a new prophetic cycle ; the Báb had replied in a satisfactory way to all of Mullá Husayn's questions and had written in his presence, with extreme rapidity, a long commentary of Surih of Joseph, which has come to be known as the Qayyúmu ' l-Asmá ' and is considered the Báb's first revealed work.

At the end of every show, Dan Rowan turned to his co-host and said, " Say good night, Dick ", to which Martin replied, " Good night, Dick!

" Palmerston replied in the last night of the debate: " I say that England stands as high as she ever did and those who say she had fallen in the estimation of the world are not the men to whom the honour and dignity of England should be confided ".

However on the night of 17 October his health worsened, and when his doctor asked him if he believed in regeneration of the world through Jesus Christ, Palmerston replied: " Oh, surely.

When asked why, Ryōkan replied, “ I eat fish when it ’ s offered, but I also let the fleas and flies feast on me sleeping at night.

Asked why the ' good night ' bit during noon, Mrs. Ling replied, " It has always been our practice, despite the time of the day or night to say good night whenever we wanted to retire for the night or for a siesta.

The emissary replied that Zhuge Liang personally manages matters both big and small in the military, from military tactics to meals for the night, but he consumes very little.

One night one of them dreamed that when asked this question, she replied, ' I belong to the church of the Little Children of JESUS CHRIST!

He is thought to have been working through the night, as he often did ( he once was found working at 11 AM when he had set an examination, upon hearing which he replied, “ It surely can't be daylight yet !”), when the fatal accident occurred.

In response, Sid replied to Shawn, " You don't give me the night off!

During the night, Turkish infantry fired missiles at the Hungarians who replied with cannons.

From the time that I conceived this request and these intentions, until I reached Rhosochosron, not more than ten days elapsed, when thou, O Saint, not on account of my worthiness but thy kindness, appearedst to me in a vision of the night and didst thrice tell me that Sira should conceive, while, in the same vision, thrice I replied, It is well.

The Lord replied that the 13th night of the new moon, during the month of Maagha, is his most favourite day.

Parvati asked: “ O venerable Lord, which of the many rituals observed in Thy honour doth please Thee most ?” Lord Siva replied: “ The thirteenth night of the new moon, Krishna Paksha, in the month of Phalguna ( February – March ) is known as Sivaratri, My most favourable Tithi.

When asked why he trained at night, Galento replied, " Cuz I fight at night.

When asked why he used that reference, Aguinaldo replied that Lawton was a night general and had attacked him ( Aguinaldo ) so often at night, he never knew when Lawton was coming.

The Soviets even took to marking out their border by stationing armed soldiers along it at intervals of a few metres, day and night, in all weathers.

Terrified that the Soviets had discovered his duplicity, he went back to his apartment and hid his family in the apartment across the hall for the night.

But fighting between Soviet forces ( and later GDR police ) and the demonstrators continued into the afternoon and night ; eyewitnesses reported that in some instances the Soviets fired directly into the throngs: “ It was awful to see.

The Soviets wait until night, and open up with an artillery barrage.

Late in the morning of 30 April, with the Soviets less than 500 metres from the bunker, Hitler had a meeting with General Helmuth Weidling, commander of the Berlin Defence Area, who informed Hitler that the Berlin garrison would probably run out of ammunition that night.

On the night of October 26 ( November 8 ) the Second Congress of Soviets adopted the Decree on Peace.

That same night the Second Congress of Soviets adopted the Decree on Land, which proclaimed that ' landlord ownership of land is abolished forthwith without compensation.

Though it was shut down in March 1945 the Soviets liberated the camp on the night of April 29 – 30, 1945.

A common misconception is that the Americans won gold the night they beat the Soviets.

Two of the new hands, a Mexican named Jose Amado and a kid known only as Laredo, were picked for the first trick of riding night herd.

No sooner were they through and the guards posted, than the whole camp turned in for a night of sound sleep.

Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

Eight hundred and sixty-five Rebels surrendered within their works and a thousand more were captured or surrendered themselves that night and the next day.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Gorton said they were preparing to deport her as a vagabond, and to escape the shame she fled to the woods for several days, returning at night.

That night after supper I went back over to 48 Spruce Street -- Ralph and I at that time were living at 168 Chestnut -- and Ralph went with me.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

This year, on a night cool with the front of September moving in, but with plenty of summer still about, the Podgers were holding a neighborhood gathering in the Pod.

In addition, would not the young female public of Washington be afforded a greater degree of protection at night when they are on the streets if they were accompanied by a dog on a leash??

However, last night the tapes were not run at all during the evening hours and all we got on TV were a few snatches which Douglas Edwards and Huntley and Brinkley could squeeze into their programs.

There were ten men on the patrol which Sergeant Prevot led out that next night.

Soon they were picking their way along the edge of the stream which glowed in the night.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

In contrast to the caravan of the previous night, there were only four cars parked across the street.

Kate had no idea what they were talking of, although she had seen the blue lights and strange fires burning and winking on the ridges at night, had heard horsemen on the River Road and hill trails through the nights till dawn.

They were climbing the hill in the night when the headlights abruptly probed solid blackness, became two parallel luminous tubes which broadened out into a faint mist of light and ended.

Shayne turned the handle and jerked the door open before either of the men were quite aware of his presence in the night.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

I'd brought along the virgin pint from last night, but we were going to kill that only when we were through talking.

A baby was burned to death and two other children were seriously injured last night in a fire which damaged their one-room Anne Arundel county home.

One night there were some dried peas lying on our kitchen table, and these peas looked to me like a little group of atoms ; ;

Snow or no, the fans were present in force at the Metropolitan Opera last night for a performance of the Ponchielli work.