Today in History

1987 - Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player is born

1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.

 1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician is born

1853 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinop — The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.

1920 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary dies (b. 1867)

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