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1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incidentOn the 26th of September 1983, the world teetered on a knife-edge of nuclear annihilation. The United States and the Soviet Union stood locked in a deadly…
Yuri AndropovYuri Vladimirovich Andropov was born on the 15th of June 1914 in Stanitsa Nagutskaya, a town that now belongs to Stavropol Krai.
Able Archer 83In May 1981, a closed-session meeting of senior KGB officers and Soviet leaders took place. General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and KGB chairman Yuri Andropov…
Korean Air Lines Flight 007On the morning of the 1st of September 1983, a Boeing 747-230B jet airliner departed from Anchorage International Airport in Alaska.
Trent AffairIn the early 1840s, a boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain over Oregon nearly sparked war. British leaders in London grew…
1948 Czechoslovak coup d'étatIn 1945, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia counted just 40,000 members. By early 1948, that number had swelled to 1.35 million.
Cuban Missile CrisisIn late 1961, Fidel Castro asked for more SA-2 anti-aircraft missiles from the Soviet Union. The request was not acted upon by the Soviet leadership.
Stanislav PetrovStanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov was born on the 7th of September 1939 to a Russian family near Vladivostok. His father, Yevgraf, flew fighter aircraft during…
Sino-Soviet border conflictIn 1964, the Chinese government revisited border demarcations originally imposed upon the Qing dynasty by the Russian Empire through unequal treaties.
Berlin BlockadeThe Potsdam Agreement signed between the 17th of July and the 2nd of August 1945 divided defeated Germany into four temporary occupation zones.