1949 - The Berlin Airlift ends

1937 - Valentin Silvestrov, Ukrainian composer is born

1895 - Lewis Milestone, Russian film director is born (d. 1980)

1246 - Yaroslav II of Russia dies (b. 1191)

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1981 - Siarhei Rutenka, Belarusian handball player is born

1976 - Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian football player is born

1957 - 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.

1941 - Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C starts Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs were killed at Babi Yar on September 29 - 30, 1941.

1930 - Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russian painter dies (b. 1844)

1843 - Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general is born (d. 1882)

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1976 - Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist is born

1974 - Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer is born

1944 - Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia.

1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.

1844 - Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and statesman dies (b. 1769)

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1977 - Andrus Varnik, Estonian javelin thrower is born

1891 - Ivan Goncharov, Russian author dies (b. 1812)

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1983 - Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a false alarm.

1985 - Lenna Kuurmaa, Estonian singer

1974 - Martin Mavavsepp, Estonian basketball player is born

1953 - Aivars Lembergs, Latvian politician is born

1932 - Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident is born

1873 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect is born (d. 1949)

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1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet dies (b. 1883)

1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director dies (b. 1895)

1960 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer is born

1920 - Sergei Bondarchuk, Ukrainian actor is born (d. 1994)

1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general dies (b. 1857)

1906 - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer is born(d. 1975)

1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying the Grand Duke of Russia.

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On Stember 24 in ancient Latvia, the third day of Mikeli, and the only day of the year during which men proposed to their prospective wives.

1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast is born

1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician dies (b. 1900)

1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier is born (d. 1985)

1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer dies (b. 1749)

1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist is born (d. 1862)

1739 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman is born (d. 1791)

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2003 - Yuri Senkevich, Russian TV anchorman dies (b. 1937)

1945 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician is born

1844 - Alexander von Benckendorff, Russian general and statesman dies (b. 1783)

In ancient Latvia, the second day of Mikeli was observed

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2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist dies (b. 1920)

1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

1944 - World War II, Red Army enters Tallinn.

1875 - Mikalojus Konstantinas ÄŒiurlionis, Lithuanian painter and composer is born (d. 1911)

1872 - Vladimir Dal, Russian lexicographer dies (b. 1801)

1784 - Russia establishes a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.

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1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.

1991 - Armenia is granted independence from Soviet Union.

1942 - In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2588 Jews.

1936 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow is born

1895 - Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet is born (d. 1925)

1760 - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman is born (d. 1837)

1217 - Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier dies

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