October 1943
Operation Overlord
Meets Russian representives & confirms the decision at Quebec to launch Overlord
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Moscow in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Meets Russian representives & confirms the decision at Quebec to launch Overlord
Attempts to persuade Stalin to travel to a Mediterranean location rather than remain on the Soviet Black Sea coast.
Reports arrangements for Roosevelt and the American party to stay in the Yalta area.
Soon after reaching Moscow, Oswald told his Intourist guide that he wanted to leave the United States and become a Soviet citizen.
Oswald arrived in Moscow on October 16, 1959, and registered at the Hotel Berlin as a student.
Intourist assigned Rima Shirokova as Lee's Moscow guide shortly after his arrival, and she assisted him with Soviet authorities.
With assistance from his Intourist guide, Lee mailed a letter to the Supreme Soviet requesting Soviet citizenship.
Following his wrist injury, Lee spent three days in Botkinskaya Hospital's psychiatric ward before doctors transferred him to another department.
After being told to leave Moscow, Oswald cut his left wrist and was taken unconscious to Botkinskaya Hospital.
On October 21, 1959, Soviet officials informed Oswald that his visa had expired and ordered him to leave Moscow within two hours.
After leaving the hospital, Lee checked out of the Hotel Berlin and registered at Moscow's Metropole Hotel.
Lee appeared at the American Embassy and declared that he wanted to renounce his United States citizenship.
Lee wrote the American Embassy requesting revocation of his citizenship after consular officials had delayed his attempted renunciation.
United Press International reporter Aline Mosby interviewed Lee for about two hours regarding his decision to remain in the Soviet Union.
Journalist Priscilla Johnson interviewed Lee at the Metropole Hotel for roughly five hours about his politics, defection, and Soviet citizenship hopes.
Soviet authorities issued Oswald an identity document for stateless persons on January 4, 1960, and assigned him to live in Minsk.
A Soviet agency described as the Red Cross gave Lee 5,000 rubles before his relocation from Moscow to Minsk.
A Radio Moscow broadcast predicts an imminent CIA-supported invasion of Cuba.
Patrice Lumumba Friendship University rejected Lee's application because the institution was reserved for students from developing regions.
The American Embassy received Lee's letter announcing his marriage and asking about possible prosecution if he returned to the United States.
After an embassy interview in July 1961, officials concluded that Oswald had not expatriated himself and returned his American passport.
Lee appeared unexpectedly at the closed American Embassy on July 8 and contacted consul Richard Snyder by telephone.
Lee and Marina completed documents at the American Embassy in Moscow, where Marina received her United States visa.
Lee signed a promissory note for a $435.71 United States repatriation loan to finance the family's return journey.
The United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain sign the Limited Test Ban Treaty.
Sent to Moscow to discuss the control of strategic weapons
Signs the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty limiting strategic missile defence systems.
Signs the SALT I Interim Agreement limiting specified United States and Soviet strategic ballistic missile launchers.
Flies to Moscow for ceasefire talks with Soviet leaders.
Negotiates ceasefire terms with Leonid Brezhnev that lead to United Nations Security Council Resolution 338.
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) , the Treaty limits nuclear test explosion to under 150 kilotons (over ten times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb)
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to the Protocol to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Agreement, which limits ABM deployment to a single area.
Signs the Threshold Test Ban Treaty limiting underground nuclear weapon tests to yields of 150 kilotons or less.
The Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) , the Treaty limits nuclear test explosion to under 150 kilotons (over ten times the yield of the Hiroshima bomb)
A simulated missile attack accidentally fed into the American early warning system fools operators, during the six minutes it takes to discover that the attack is not authentic, fighters from bases in the United States and Canada take off
The fourth meeting between Reagan & Gorbachev. INF Treaty ratification documents are exchanged between Russia & the USA
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty enters into force after ratification by the United States and Soviet Union.
Signs START I with Mikhail Gorbachev, requiring major reductions in strategic nuclear weapons.
Signs START II with Boris Yeltsin to pursue deeper reductions in strategic nuclear arsenals.
Signs the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty with Vladimir Putin to reduce deployed strategic nuclear warheads.
Provenance
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