Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev19 July 1980
Formally opens the Moscow Summer Olympic Games amid a major Western boycott.
Russia · Government / Government of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Formally opens the Moscow Summer Olympic Games amid a major Western boycott.
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