1935 - in the Primorsky Territory is based Sikhote-Alin reserve (photo)
1937 - under the direction of Igor Moiseyev established USSR State dance ensemble (photo)
1962 - in Berlin on the bridge Glinka exchanged downed American pilot over the territory of the USSR FG Powers on the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel (photo)
1996 - the first chess match between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer. Kasparov won with the score 4: 2 (photo)
2005 - North Korea has officially announced the creation of its nuclear weapons (photo)
2007 - in Munich hosted a conference on political and security issues on which the President of Russia VV Putin delivered his famous "Munich speech" (photo)
2009 - on the Earth's orbit was a first in the history of astronautics collision of two satellites (photo)