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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1800: Alexander Suvorov, general, died

1896: Stampede at Nicholas II's coronation celebration

1935: The Maxim Gorky, a massive, 206-foot wingspan behemoth of an airplane, crashes after a tragic mid-air collision.

1944: Crimean Tatars deported to Siberia.

1944: In the Soviet Union, the expulsion began of more than 200,000 Tatars from the Crimea. They were accused of collaboration with the Germans.

1977: The United States, Soviet Union and 29 other nations signed a U.N. pact banning artificial use of the weather as a weapon of war, pledging never to attack each other by triggering storms, earthquakes or tidal waves.

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