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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1971: Patriarch Pimen elected

1962: Riot in Novocherkassk brutally supressed

1957: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interviewed by CBS-TV correspondent Daniel Schorr who became the first to interview the Soviet leader.

1937: Yunna Morits, poet, born

1908: Maria Ladynina, actress, born (died 2003)

1907: Second State Duma disbanded

1897: Workday limited to 11 hours 30 minutes (10 hours on Saturdays), and 40 hours per week.

1842: First volume of Gogol's "Dead Souls" published

1808: Lavrenty Zagoskin, geographer, born (died 1890).

1734: In the War of the Polish Succession, Russia and Austria finally took Danzig (Gdansk) after a siege which had begun the previous October.

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