Konstantin Chernenko - Konstantin Chernenko Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko (Константин Устинович Черненко), (September 24, 1911 - March 10, 1985) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU who led the Soviet Union from February 13, 1984, until his death. Chernenko was also Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from April 11, 1984, until his death. Born in Bolshaya Tes, Novoselsky Raion, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Siberia. Joined Komsomol in 1926 and the Communist Party in 1931. After a brief stint in the Frontier Guard he was career politician. After work in the regions he was called to Moscow in 1960 and promoted under the aegis of Leonid Brezhnev, becoming a candidate member of the Central Committee in 1966 and a full member in 1971. He joined the Politburo.
Kremvax - of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and kgbvax. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined Usenet. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, and referred to it frequently in his own postings. Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site named kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense.
February 13 - in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby boy. 1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces capture Budapest, Hungary from the Nazis. 1945 - World War II: The British Air Force bombs Dresden, Germany. 1955 - Israel obtains 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls. 1960 - Nuclear testing: France tests its first atomic bomb. 1971 - Vietnam War: Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos. 1984 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1988 - 1988 Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 1990 - German reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to reunite Germany. 1991 - Gulf.
1984 - Vatican establish full diplomatic relations. January 22 - The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, is introduced by Apple Computer corporation in a Super Bowl commercial evoking images from George Orwell's book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. January 24 - The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale February 3 - Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the tenth space shuttle mission. February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. February 13 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. March 6 - Twelve month long strike in British coal industry begins See UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985) March 14 - Gerry Adams seriously wounded in an assassination.
1966 - Tsafendas during a parliamentary meeting. September 30 - Botswana achieves independence. October 4 - Lesotho achieves independence. October 14 - The city of Montreal inaugurates its metro system (see Montreal Metro). October 15 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation. November 2 - The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. November 4 - The Arno river floods Florence, damaging many art treasures. November 6 - Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched. November 8 - Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate. November 15 - Gemini program: Gemini 12 carrying astronauts James A. Lovell and Buzz Aldrin splashes down safely in.
1985 - are shot dead when exiting from Sparks Steak House, making hit organizer, John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family. Buckyballs were discovered by Harold Kroto, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley First syndication of Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson GNU Manifesto first written by Richard Stallman Western Sahara is admitted to the Organization of African Unity; Morocco, which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest Ethiopian famine continues -- Live Aid attempts to raise funds for famine relief Year in topic 1985 in film Out of Africa The Color Purple Witness starring Harrison Ford Back to the Future 1985 in literature 1985 in music January 28 - "We Are The World" is recorded, by USA for Africa. July 13 - Live Aid benefit concert 1985 in sports January.
Yuri Andropov - the Central Committee Secretariat in 1962, succeeding Mikhail Suslov, and in 1967 he was appointed head of the KGB. In 1973 Andropov became a full member of the Politburo, although he did not resign as head of the KGB until 1982. A few days after Brezhnev's death (November 10, 1982), Andropov was the surprise appointment to General Secretary over Chernenko, he was the first head of the KGB to become General Secretary. He quickly added the posts of President of the USSR and chairman of the Defence Council. During his rule he made attempts to improve the economy and reduce corruption. In foreign policy he did little - the war continued in Afghanistan. His rule was also marked by the deterioration of relations with the USA, due to the rabid anti-Soviet.
Andrei Kirilenko (politician) - was for a while positioned as a potential successor to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev,though he was months older than Brezhnev.However,by Brezhnev's death his longer-term protege Konstantin Chernenko had reached sufficient prominence,and the defection to Great Britain of a relative of Kirilenko's contributed to Kirilenko's forced retirement (decided before but announced after Brezhnev's death in November 1982). Prior to joining the national leadership he had been Communist Party secretary for the Dnepropetrovsk and then the Sverdlovsk region.In the Secretariat he shared responsibility for ideology with Mikhail Suslov(1905-82). Another Andrei Kirilenko is a contemporary National Basketball Association player..
Raisa Gorbachev - When her husband returned to Moscow as a rising Communist Party official, Raisa Gorbachev took a job as a lecturer at her alma mater, Moscow State University. On the death of Premier Konstantin Chernenko in 1985, her husband became the leader of the Soviet Union. She gave up her job and would, behind the scenes, become her husband's principal adviser. Mrs. Gorbachev's behaviour would profoundly affect the Soviet citizenry, in particular the women. Previous Soviet leaders wives were never seen publicly but Mrs. Gorbachev, appearing repeatedly with her husband at public functions wearing designer clothes and jewelry, shocked the country. Her "bold" behaviour was much criticized at home but went a long way to humanizing Russia, dispelling the "Evil Empire" perception of the West. Through it all, her husband stood behind.
President of the Soviet Union - of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Mikhail Kalinin (1938-1946) Nikolay Shvernik (1946-1953) Kliment Voroshilov (1953-1960) Leonid Brezhnev (1960-1964) Anastas Mikoyan (1964-1965) Nikolay Podgorny (1965-1977) Leonid Brezhnev (1977-1982) (2nd time) Vasily Kuznetsov (1982-1983) Yuri Andropov (1983-1984) Vasily Kuznetsov (1984) (2nd time) Konstantin Chernenko (1984-1985) Vasily Kuznetsov (1985) (3rd time) Andrey Gromyko (1985-1988) Mikhail Gorbachev (1988-1990) President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (1990-1991).
March 10 - - Albert Fraenkel, physician (+ 1916) 1880 - Broncho Billy Anderson, actor (+ 1971) 1888 - Barry Fitzgerald, actor (+ 1966) 1891 - Sam Jaffe, actor (+ 1984) 1892 - Arthur Honegger, composer (+ 1955) 1892 - Gregory La Cava, director, producer, writer (+ 1952) 1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz musician (+ 1931) 1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, publisher, writer (+ 1987) 1918 - Heywood Hale Broun, sports journalist, commentator (+ 2001) 1927 - Paul Wunderlich, painter, graphic artist, sculptor 1927 - Jupp Derwall, football coach 1928 - James Earl Ray, assassin (+ 1998) 1940 - Dean Torrence, musician ("Jan and Dean") 1940 - Chuck Norris, actor, martial arts practitioner 1947 - Kim Campbell, nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada and first woman to hold that office 1957 - Osama Bin Laden,.
Mikhail Gorbachev - Andropov's brief time as leader of the Party before his death in 1984. His positions within the CPSU created more opportunities to travel abroad that would profoundly affect his political and social views in the future as leader of the country. In 1975, he led a delegation to West Germany and in 1983 he headed a Soviet delegation to Canada to meet with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and members of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate. In 1985, he traveled to the United Kingdom, where he met with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. On the death of Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev, at age 54, was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party on March 11, 1985. As the de facto ruler of the Soviet Union, he tried to reform the stagnating.
Mikhail Suslov - party ideology for much of his time in the Secretariat. His death is viewed by some as starting the battle to succeed Brezhnev,in which Yuri Andropov,who secured Suslov's ideology brief,sidelined Andrei Kirilenko and Konstantin Chernenko..
List of leaders of the Soviet Union - 1953 - October 14, 1964 Leonid Brezhnev First Secretary October 14, 1964 - April 8, 1966 General Secretary April 8, 1966 - November 10, 1982 Yuri Andropov General Secretary November 12, 1982 - February 9, 1984 Konstantin Chernenko General Secretary February 13, 1984 - March 10, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev General Secretary March 11, 1985 - March 14, 1990 President of the Soviet Union March 14, 1990 - December 25, 1991 The post of General Secretary was created in April 1922 and became the highest in the party when Lenin died. The title was First Secretary between 1953 and April 1966. On March 14 1990, the newly created (1989) Congress of People's Deputies voted to end the Communist party's control over the government and elected Gorbachev President of the Soviet Union. See.
List of Russians - film director Boris Bruinov (1922 - 1997), actor Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872 - 1929), ballet impresario Sergei Eisenstein (1898 - 1948), film director Nikita Mikhalkov (born 1945), actor, director, producer, writer, and politician Ivan Novikoff (1899 - 2002), ballet master Rudolf Hametovich Nureyev (1938 - 1993), ballet dancer Anna Pavlova (1882 - 1931), ballerina Alexander Lukich Ptushko (1882 - 1931), film director Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (1868 - 1938), actor Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova (1910 - 1988), ballerina Poets: (who wrote much of their poetry in the Russian language) Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966), poet Valeri Bryusov (1873 - 1924), poet, novelist, critic Denis Davydov (1784 - 1839), poet Osip Mandelstam, (1891 - 1938), (also spelt Mandelshtam), Russian poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893 - 1930), poet Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837), Russian.
List of people by name: Ch - 1964), US civil rights activist Cheng, Sammi, (born 1972) Chenier, Marie-Joseph de, (1764-1811), French poet Chen Shui-bian, (born 1950), President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Chen, Jing-Run, (1933-1933), mathematician Chen, Zhu, chess player Cheney, Eric, (1924-2001) Cheng Man-ch'ing, (1901-1975) Chenier, Clifton, musician Chen, Joan, (born 1960), actress Chennault, Claire, (1890-1958), US commander of the Flying Tigers Cherenkov, Pavel Alekseyevich, (1904-1990), physicist Cherkasov, Nikolai, (1903-1966), actor Chernenko, Konstantin Ustinovich, (1911-1985), Soviet general secretary Chernov, Victor, Socialist Revolutionary Leader Chern, Shiing-Shen, mathematician Cherry, Don, (1936-1995), jazz musician Cherryh, C. J, (born 1942), US science fiction author Cherry, Don, (born 1924), pop singer, professional golfer Cherry, Neneh, (born 1963), musician Cherubini, Luigi, (1760-1842), Italian composer, opera composer Chervonenkis, Alexey, Russian statistician Chesney, Kenny, musician Chesnutt, Charles, (1858-1932), author Chespirito, (born 1929), comedian Chessman,.
List of socialists - Ronald Venetiaan, Mário Viegas Carrascalăo W. John Christian Watson, William Wedgwood Benn, John Wheatley, Gough Whitlam, Shirley Williams, Harold Wilson, James Woodsworth Z. Hernán Siles Zuazo Communists (members of orthodox Communist parties) Dolores Ibarruri A. Rosa Aguilar, D. N. Aidit, Ramiz Alia, Anandyn Amar, Yuri Andropov, Julio Anguita, Kanson Arahata B. Jyoti Basu, Jambyn Batmöhn, Lavrenty Beria, Enrico Berlinguer, Boleslaw Bierut, Maurice Bishop, Leonid Brezhnev, Earl Browder, Josip Broz Tito, Tim Buck, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolay Bulganin C. Adil Çarçani, Santiago Carrillo, Fidel Castro, Nicolae Ceausescu, Oldrich Cerník, Chen Yi, Konstantin Chernenko, Vulko Chervenkov, Bernard Coard, Józef Cyrankiewicz D. S. A. Dange, Angela Davis, Deng Xiaoping, Georgi Dimitrov, Milovan Djilas, Do Muoi, Alexander Dubcek, Jacques Duclos F. Tetzuo Fuwa G. William Gallacher, Ernö Gerö, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Edward Gierek, Wladyslaw Gomulka, Klement Gottwald,.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (Константин Эдуардович Циолковский) (September 17, 1857 - September 19, 1935) was a Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of cosmonautics. He was born in Ijevskoe, Russia. As a child he was sickly and hard of hearing, and was not accepted at elementary schools, so was home schooled until 16. Tsiolkovsky theorized many aspects of space travel and rocket propulsion. He is considered the father of human space flight and the first man to conceive the space elevator. His most famous work was "The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Motors", which published in 1903 was arguably the first academic treatise on rocketry. Unfortunately his ideas never made it out of Russia, and the field lagged until German.
Konstantin Stanislavski - Konstantin Stanislavski Konstantin Stanislavski (January 5, 1863 - 1938) was a Russian theatre and acting innovator. He was born Konstantin Sergeievich Alexeyev in Moscow to a wealthy family, if not the wealthiest in Russia. He had an early interest in acting and took the stage-name Stanislavski to preserve the reputation of his family. In 1888 he established the Society of Art and Literature at the Maly Theatre, where he gained experience in aesthetics and stagecraft. In 1898, he assumes the role of principal director of the Moscow Open Theatre, later known as the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT). From there, based on the realist tradition of Aleksandr Pushkin, he developed his ideas of what he called the Stanislavski Method and which would later be called method acting.
Konstantin Feoktistov - Konstantin Feoktistov Konstantin Petrovich Feoktistov (cyrillic Константин Петрович Феоктистов), born February 7 1926 in Voronezh) was a cosmonaut and space engineer. Feoktistov served in the Soviet army in World War II and narrowly avoided death after being captured by the Germans. Commanded to stand at the edge of a pit, he was to be executed by firing squad along with other prisoners. However, the bullet only grazed his throat, and Feoktistov was later able to crawl out of the pit of corpses and make his way to Soviet lines. He graduated from the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School as an engineer, and would later finish a doctorate in physics. He joined Mikhail Tikhonravov's OKB (design bureau)), and in 1955 formed part of the team that would.
