Soviet History Timeline (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 1,263

• 1956-11-08 UN demands USSR leave Hungary
• 1956-11-14 Hungarian revolt put down by Soviet invasion
• 1956-11-17 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test

• 1957-01-19 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1957-01-25 FBI arrests Jack & Myra Sobel, charged with spying for USSR
• 1957-02-15 Andrei Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1957-03-08 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1957-04-03 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1957-04-06 USSR performs nuclear test (atmospheric tests)
• 1957-04-10 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1957-04-12 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1957-04-16 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan

• 1957-07-14 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
• 1957-08-08 USSR offers Syria economic/military aid
• 1957-08-21 The Soviet Union successfully tests the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7, which flies over 6,000 km (3,700 mi)
• 1957-08-26 USSR announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
• 1957-09-14 UN resolution deplores & condemns USSR invasion of Hungary
• 1957-09-25 Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
• 1957-09-26 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1957-09-29 An explosion at the Mayak plutonium production plant in the Soviet Union spreads radiation over 20,000 square miles (52,000 km2)
• 1957-10-01 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
• 1957-10-04 Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite into elliptical low Earth orbit
• 1957-10-06 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1957-10-08 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (NYC)
• 1957-10-10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

• 1957-11-04 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
• 1957-11-15 US sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years & $3,000
• 1957-12-28 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1958-01-07 USSR reduces army to 300,000
• 1958-02-23 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-02-27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-03-14 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1958-03-15 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test in Ground Zero, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan (of 36 total for 1958)
• 1958-03-21 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
• 1958-03-22 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1958-03-27 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet Premier as well as First Secretary of the Communist Party
• 1958-03-31 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
• 1958-04-01 Marshal Nikolai Bulganin appointed Chairman of the Board of the State Bank of the USSR
• 1958-04-14 Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard burns up during reentry into Earth's atmosphere
• 1958-05-15 USSR launches Sputnik III
• 1958-08-15 Marshal Nikolai Bulganin resigns as Chairman of the Board of the State Bank of the USSR
• 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

• 1958-10-24 USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build the Aswan High Dam across the Nile river
• 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

• 1959-01-04 USSR's Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes the 1st spacecraft to leave Earth's gravity
• 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
• 1959-09-15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in United States to begin a 13-day visit, the first state visit of a Soviet or Russian leader to the US
• 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 and Egypt sign contracts to build the Aswan High 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
• 1960-07-12 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 American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident); sentence to 3 years in prison plus 7 in a labor camp, he served 17 months before being exchanged for a captured Soviet KGB spy
• 1960-08-19 Soviet Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 2 rats, 40 mice, 1 rabbit and fruit flies into space, 1st animals to return alive from orbit
• 1960-08-20 USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
• 1960-10-12 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on his desk at UN General Assembly session
• 1960-10-24 Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome: Prototype missile explodes on launch pad, killing Chief Marshal of Artillery Mitrofan Nedelin and over 100 personnel killed; USSR claims victims died in plane crash, suppressing true details until 1989
• 1961-02-12 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus
• 1961-02-13 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
• 1961-03-09 Soviet flight Sputnik 9 carries and returns from orbit a dog named Chernushka (Blackie), frogs and a guinea pig
• 1961-03-13 Landslide in USSR, kills 145

• 1961-06-04 US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meet at the Vienna Summit in Austria
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1961-09-05 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961-09-13 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 250 kilo-ton 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1962-02-10 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
• 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 the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1962-08-10 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-08-20 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-08-22 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-08-25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-08-25 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1962-08-27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-09-01 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-09-02 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-09-08 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-09-09 Soviet economist Liberman plead for autonomous businesses
• 1962-09-15 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-09-16 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-09-18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-09-19 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-09-25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-10-07 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-10-12 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology
• 1962-10-14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 1962-10-18 US President John F. Kennedy meets Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko
• 1962-10-22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1962-10-24 Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba

• 1962-10-28 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President JFK receives letter from Soviet Leaderr Khrushchev suggesting agreement
• 1962-10-28 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1962-11-01 USSR launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
• 1962-11-01 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-11-01 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1962-11-03 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-11-17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR

• 1962-11-20 USSR agrees to remove remaining Ilyushin Il-28 bomber jets from Cuba, US lifts blockade
• 1962-12-18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-12-22 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-12-24 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1962-12-25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1963-01-04 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
• 1963-02-05 Soviet lunar probe failure
• 1963-02-19 USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
• 1963-04-02 USSR launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km

• 1963-06-20 US & USSR agree to set up a "Hot Line"
• 1963-08-05 Britain, USA and USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty
• 1963-09-18 USSR orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia
• 1963-09-20 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
• 1963-09-24 US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing

• 1963-12-26 US furnishes cereal to USSR
• 1964-03-15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1964-04-02 USSR launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
• 1964-05-09 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits Egypt
• 1964-05-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1964-07-19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1964-08-18 USSR launch 3 Kosmos satellites
• 1964-09-18 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1964-10-13 Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 1 successfully returns to earth with record three crew
• 1964-10-14 Premier Nikita Khrushchev replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
• 1964-10-25 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1964-11-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1964-11-30 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
• 1965-01-15 Soviet underground nuclear test creates the atomic lake Chagan, Kazakhstan
• 1965-01-16 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1965-02-22 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
• 1965-03-03 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

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