1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.

1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.

1985 - Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player is born

1984 - Eugenia Volodina, Russian supermodel is born

1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor dies (b. 1899)

1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.

1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.

1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935) is born

1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russia is born (d. 1704)

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