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Leonid Brezhnev

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

8 dated entries naming Leonid Brezhnev, drawn from 8 separate years between 1906 CE and 1982 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1906December 19 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)source
  • 1964October 14–15 – Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.source
  • 1966March 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.source
  • 1969January 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.source
  • 1972May 26 – Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and other agreements.source
  • 1973June 24 – Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first Soviet leader to do so.source
  • 1979June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.source
  • 1982November 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 attacksource

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