🗓 October 12 in Russia:

🔳 1813 - The Treaty of Gulistan between the Russian Empire and Persia, concluding the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813).

🔳 1924 - The First All-Union Test of Aeronauts (8 balloons).

🔳 1928 - The first performance of the Red Army Song Ensemble, created at the M.V. Frunze Central House of the Red Army.

🔳 1929 - The beginning of the Sungari Operation during the Sino-Soviet conflict in the Far East.

🔳 1940 - The Tchaikovsky Concert Hall opened in Moscow.

🔳 1956 - The first passenger flight on a Tu-104 aircraft took place on the international air route Moscow-Prague.

🔳 1958 - The slogan "The Party's Plans are the People's Plans!" first appeared in the newspaper "Soviet Patriot."

🔳 1960 - At the 15th UN General Assembly, a curious incident occurred with Nikita Khrushchev and his shoe. Allegedly, Khrushchev started knocking the table with his shoe in protest, but this is a myth - according to Khrushchev's son, when Nikita Sergeyevich entered the hall, journalists surrounded him from all sides, and one of them stepped on his heel, causing the shoe to come off. Khrushchev did not put it back on because it was inconvenient to bend down and try to put on the shoe in front of the cameras. He left and sat in his seat, and the shoe, covered with a napkin, was brought to him by the attendants and placed in front of him on the table.

🔳 1964 - The Voskhod-1 spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The first flight of a multi-seat spacecraft was carried out, and the flight was also carried out without spacesuits for the first time.

🔳 1970 - Gleb Panfilov's film "The Debut" was released, starring Inna Churikova, Valentina Telichkina, Mikhail Kononov, and Leonid Kuravlev.

🔳 1991 - The debut of the new musical group "Kanikuly" (Vacations) on the stage of the "Sound Track" program. Exactly two months later, on December 12, 1991, the group "Kanikuly" debuted in the "Morning Star" TV show under the new name "Litsey" (Lyceum). The decision to change the name of the group came literally backstage of the program.