1997 Event Ice Dance won by Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov (Rus) 1996 Event Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS) 1996 Event Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova and Bushkov (RUS) 1995 Event Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham U.K. won by Gritshuk and Platov (RUS) 1994 Death Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71 1994 Event Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk and Platov (RUS) 1994 Event Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS) 1993 Event Ice Dance Championship at Prague won by M Usova and A Zhulin (RUS) 1992 Death Vladimir K Romanov, Grand Duke/Rus pretender to the throne, dies at 74 1991 Event Carl Lewis rus 100m in 9.86 seconds 1975 Birthday Sergei Gusev, Nizhny Tagil Rus, NHL defenseman for the Dallas Stars 1975 Birthday Vitali Yachmenev, Chelyabinsk Rus, NHL right wing for the Los Angeles Kings 1973 Birthday Alexei Yashin, Sverdlovsk Rus, NHL center, Ottawa Senators 1973 Birthday Nikolai Khabibulin, Sverdlovsk Rus, NHL goalie, Winnipeg Jets 1971 Birthday Dimitri Yushkevich, Yaroslavl Rus, NHL defenseman, Toronto Maple Leaf 1971 Birthday Sergei Berezin, Voskrensensk Rus, NHL forward, Team Russia, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics 1971 Birthday Valeri Karpov, Chelyabinsk Rus, NHL left wing, Anaheim Mighty Ducks 1970 Birthday Andrei Kovalenko, Gorky Rus, NHL right wing, Mont Canadiens, Edmonton 1970 Birthday Leo Stefan, Chelyabinsk RUS, hockey forward, Team Germany 1969 Birthday Igor Ulanov, Krasnokamsk Rus, NHL defenseman, Tampa Bay Lightning 1969 Birthday Vladimir Tsyplakov, Inta Rus, NHL left wing, Los Angeles Kings, Belarus 1998 1969 Birthday Konstantine Starikovitch, Podolsk Rus, 238lbs U.S. weightlift 1996 Olympics 1968 Birthday Vladimir Malakhov, Sverdlovsk Rus, NHL defenseman, Montreal Canadiens 1962 Birthday Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov, Rus Lt-colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-21 1958 Birthday Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, Rus, cosmonaut, TM-7, TM-12, STS-60 1954 Birthday Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev, Rus col/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-17, TM-25 1948 Death Andrei A Zjdanov, Rus politician (against kosmopolitism), dies at 52 1947 Birthday Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Rus cosmonaut, Soyuz T-8, TM-4, STS-63 1941 Death Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel, Rus writer (Crvena Konjica), executed at 46 1937 Birthday Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gorki Rus, pianist/conductor, Tchakowsky-1961 1937 Event Stalin executes Rus officers Tuchachevski, Jakir, Putna and Uberevitch 1905 Birthday Mischa Auer, Ounskowsky, St. Petersburg Rus, actor, My Man Godfrey 1903 Birthday Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, 1st Rus nuclear bomb 1893 Death Piotr Ilyich Tchaikofsky, Rus composer (Nutcracker), dies at 53 1893 Death Aleksei N Apuchtin, Rus poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52 1881 Birthday Otto V Kuusinen, Fin/Rus communist President of Karelo-Finnish SR, 1940-56 1813 Birthday Pavel Annenkov, Rus literature historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatileti 1738 Death Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed
