2001 Event Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry 1998 Event Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR 1997 Event Progress M-34 Collides with and damages Mir Space Station 1997 Event Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR 1997 Event Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station 1995 Event Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir 1994 Event Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir 1993 Death Sammy Cahn, Cohen, U.S. songwriter (Bei Mir Bist Du Schon), dies at 79 1991 Event U.S.S.R. launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station 1988 Event U.S.S.R. launches 3 cosmonauts (Valery Polyakav, 1 Afghan) to station Mir 1987 Event Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir 1986 Event Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir 1986 Event U.S.S.R. launches Mir space station into Earth orbit 1971 Death Aleksandr T. Tvardovski, Russian editor in chief (Novyj Mir), dies at 61 1964 Birthday Mir Aimal Kansi, Quetta Pakistan, murderer, FBI Most Wanted 1964 Event Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" and "Sie Leibt Dich" 1962 Birthday Vladimir Mikolaevich Dezhurov, born in Mordovia, astronaut, Mir 18, STS-71 1961 Birthday Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russian major/cosmonaut, Mir, Soyuz TM-23 1957 Birthday Christer Fuglesang, born in Stockholm Sweden, physicist/astronaut, Mir backup 1943 Birthday Norman E. Thagard, born in Marianna, Florida, MD/astronaut, STS-7, 51-B, 30, 42, 71, Mir 1942 Event 200 Jews escape Mir Ghetto in Poland 1939 Event Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years 1939 Event Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated 1722 Event Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia 1286 Event Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
