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The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s. [1] In 1979, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan caused the United States and other Western countries to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, an act reciprocated when the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries (with the ...
The 1980 Summer Olympics were disrupted by another, even larger, boycott led by the United States in protest of the 1979 Soviet–Afghan War. The Soviet invasion spurred President Jimmy Carter to issue an ultimatum on 20 January 1980, which stated that the U.S. would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan ...
1928-1932 and 1938-1940 Automobile Legal Association Green Book: large scale maps (not very detailed - only major routes) and major city inset maps; turn-by-turn directions can also be used to find old routings through cities; also contains rough route logs (i.e. cities passed through) for some of the longer routes in all eastern states; 1938 ...
The constitution granted the right for historical communities to form autonomous regions in Spain. The first regions to do this were the Basque Country and Catalonia, and soon after other regions joined, making up the modern map of Spain. This was widely criticised by the army and by right wing groups, which thought the unity of Spain was ...
Map color meaning of the color Bold blue NATO Medium blue Other allies of the U.S. Bold red Warsaw Pact Medium red Socialist countries aligned with the U.S.S.R. Light red Other allies of the U.S.S.R. Yellow Maoist nations Light blue Non-aligned nations Blue crossmarks Anti-communist guerrillas Red crossmarks Communist guerrillas Green crossmarks
7 July – Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (born 1901) 17 July – Boris Delaunay, mathematician (born 1890) 20 July – Lado Gudiashvili, painter (born 1896) 25 July – Vladimir Vysotsky, singer-songwriter, poet and actor (born 1938) 4 October – Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (1965–1980) (born ...
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Igor Ivanov, a veteran of the Soviet embassy in Madrid, was appointed Ambassador of Russia to Spain [1] and served in Madrid until 1994. [24] In April 1994 president Boris Yeltsin became the first Russian head of state to pay a state visit to Spain. Juan Carlos visited Russia in 2002, [25] 2006, [26] 2008 and 2012. [27]