This day in history

1552: Troops under Ivan the Terrible’s command seize Kazan. After overwhelming the Kazan Khanate, the Russian tsar proceeds to subjugate the Astrakhan Khanate.

1920: The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Ukrainian SSR sign a truce and tentative peace agreement with Poland.

1923: The International Convention for the Suppression of the Circulation of and Trafficking Obscene Publications is signed in Geneva.

1924: The Moldavian Soviet Autonomous Socialist Republic is made part of the Ukrainian SSR.

1931: The statue of Christ the Redeemer is unveiled at the peak of Corcovado Mt. in Rio de Janeiro.

1960: Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe on a table during the UN General Assembly session, declaring the Soviets will bury the West.

1964: The Soviet Union launches to orbit the world’s first multi-person crew spacecraft Voskhod-1, manned by Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, and Boris Yegorov.