Soviet Union in History (Part 5)

Historical Events

Events 401 - 500 of 1,226

• 1958-05-15 USSR launches Sputnik III
• 1958-08-15 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank

• 1958-08-27 USSR launches Sputnik 3 with two dogs aboard
• 1958-09-02 U.S. Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan, Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew lost.
• 1958-09-20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-09-30 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-10-02 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-10-05 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-10-10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-10-12 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-10-15 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1958-10-23 USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam
• 1958-10-24 USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
• 1958-11-01 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1958-11-03 USSR performs nuclear test


• 1958-11-27 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
• 1959-01-02 USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
• 1959-01-28 Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US
• 1959-03-16 Iraq & USSR sign economic and technical treaty
• 1959-03-17 Australia & USSR restore diplomatic relations
• 1959-05-10 Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan

• 1959-08-16 USSR introduces installment buying
• 1959-08-17 USSR & Iraq signs contract for building Iraqi nuclear reactor
• 1959-09-12 Luna 2 launched by USSR; 1st spacecraft to impact on the Moon
• 1959-09-13 USSR's Luna 2 becomes 1st probe to contact another celestial body
• 1959-09-14 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon

• 1959-09-27 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his US visit
• 1959-10-04 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
• 1959-10-06 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon

• 1959-10-31 USSR & Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam
• 1960-02-26 Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia

• 1960-03-10 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
• 1960-04-02 Cuba buys oil from USSR

• 1960-05-08 USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
• 1960-05-14 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
• 1960-05-16 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
• 1960-07-01 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
• 1960-07-07 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
• 1960-07-10 UEFA European Championship Final, Parc des Princes, Paris, France: Viktor Ponedelnik scores in extra time as Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia, 2-1
• 1960-07-12 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
• 1960-07-20 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
• 1960-08-13 USSR withdraws advisors from China
• 1960-08-19 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
• 1960-08-19 Soviet Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 2 rats, 40 mice, 1 rabbit and fruit flies into orbit, - 1st animals to return alive from obit
• 1960-08-20 USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
• 1960-09-02 Tamara & Irina Press (Soviet Union) become first sisters to win Olympic gold medals; Tamara wins Rome Olympics shot put one day after Irina takes out 80m hurdles
• 1960-10-12 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
• 1960-10-24 Disaster on USSR's Baikonoer launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
• 1961-02-12 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
• 1961-02-13 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus

• 1961-03-13 Landslide in USSR, kills 145
• 1961-04-14 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
• 1961-06-04 US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria
• 1961-06-16 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris
• 1961-08-07 Soviet premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
• 1961-08-30 USSR says it will resume nuclear testing
• 1961-09-01 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1961-09-05 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1961-09-06 USSR performs nuclear test at Kapustin Yar USSR
• 1961-09-10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-09-12 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-09-13 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1961-09-13 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1961-09-14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-09-16 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-09-17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1961-09-18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-09-20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-10-02 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-10-04 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-10-06 USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-10-08 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, USSR
• 1961-10-11 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1961-10-12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1961-10-21 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
• 1961-10-23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-10-25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-10-27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya & Sary Shagan USSR
• 1961-10-30 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb named Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated

• 1961-11-30 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
• 1961-12-10 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations

• 1962-02-02 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1962-02-10 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
• 1962-03-18 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Supreme Soviet of USSR
• 1962-06-10 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½"
• 1962-07-12 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
• 1962-07-27 USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-08-07 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

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