{"slug": "leonid-brezhnev", "label": "Leonid Brezhnev", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q765165", "qid": "Q765165", "description": "General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1906, 1982], "span_label": ["1906 CE", "1982 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "vienna", "label": "Vienna", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jimmy-carter", "label": "Jimmy Carter", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "richard-nixon", "label": "Richard Nixon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nikita-khrushchev", "label": "Nikita Khrushchev", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "general-secretary-of-the-communist-party-of-the-soviet-union", "label": "General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1906, "year_label": "1906 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 19", "text": "December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373343237#November–December", "title": "1906", "revid": 1373343237, "section": "Births › November–December"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14–15 – Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#October", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – The 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held: Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#March", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured; Brezhnev escapes unharmed. Very little is publicly admitted about the incident by the Soviet authorities at this time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#January", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 – Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#May", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1973, "year_label": "1973 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first Soviet leader to do so.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373239256#June", "title": "1973", "revid": 1373239256, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#June", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 10", "text": "November 10 – Leonid Brezhnev, 75, Soviet politician, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and was a part of the country's collective leadership, he also served as the head of state of the Soviet Union from 1960 until 1964, and again from 1977 until 1982, under the title of the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, heart attack", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367397229", "title": "Deaths in November 1982", "revid": 1367397229, "section": "Deaths › November"}}]}