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1 day ago · 1999 Russian apartment bombings. In September 1999, a series of explosions hit four apartment blocks in the Russian cities of Buynaksk, Moscow, and Volgodonsk, killing more than 300, injuring more than 1,000, and spreading a wave of fear across the country. The bombings, together with the Invasion of Dagestan, triggered the Second Chechen War.
1 day ago · Ukraine. The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, [a] also known as Austrian Galicia or colloquially Austrian Poland, was a constituent possession of the Habsburg monarchy in the historical region of Galicia in Eastern Europe. The crownland was established in 1772. The lands were annexed from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as part of the First ...
1 day ago · The 1980 Summer Olympics (Russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, romanized: Letnije Olimpijskije igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (Russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, romanized: Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commonly known as Moscow 1980 (Russian: Москва 1980), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 ...
1 day ago · The Russo-Japanese War ( Japanese: 日露戦争, romanized : Nichiro sensō, lit. 'Japanese-Russian War'; Russian: русско-японская война, romanized : russko-yaponskaya voyna) was fought between the Japanese Empire and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. [4]
- Manchuria, Yellow Sea, Korea, Sea of Japan
- Japanese victoryTreaty of Portsmouth
