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1994 Event - Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia and Latvia

1993 Event - Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia

1991 Event - U.N. admits Estonia, Latvia, Lithuiania, North and South Korea, Marshall Islands and Micronesia

1991 Event - U.S. officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

1991 Event - Latvia declares it's independence from U.S.S.R.

1991 Event - Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the U.S.S.R.

1990 Event - Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their 1st joint session

1990 Event - Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence

1975 Birthday - Inga Drozdova, Latvia, playmate, Nov, 1997

1966 Birthday - Larisa Savchenko, Neiland Latvia, tennis star

1950 Event - U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia

1948 Birthday - Mikhail Baryshnikov, born in Riga, Latvia, ballet dancer, That's Dancing

1947 Birthday - Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist, Tchaikovsky Prize 1970

1944 Event - Riga Latvia freed

1944 Event - 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo

1943 Event - Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed

1942 Birthday - Rosa Von Praunheim, Holger Mischwitzky, Riga Latvia, dir, Affengeil

1941 Event - Latvia partisans shoot 416 Jews dead

1941 Birthday - Imants Kalnins, born in Riga, Latvia, composer, wrote six symphonies, first composer of intellectual rock music, Latvia's most important composer

1940 Event - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia incorporated into Soviet Union

1940 Event - Soviet Union annexes Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

1937 Birthday - Mikhail N Tai, Latvia, World chess champion, 1960-61

1934 Event - Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp

1934 Event - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against U.S.S.R.

1934 Event - Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia

1932 Birthday - Gundaris Pone, born in Riga, Latvia, composer, professor, State University College at New Paltz, New York

1929 Event - U.S.S.R., Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact

1926 Event - Russia and Latvia treaty of neutrality signed

1923 Event - Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory

1922 Death - Eliezer Ben-Jehuda, Perelmann, Latvia/Palestinian writer, dies at 67

1922 Event - Latvia and Vatican sign accord

1920 Event - 1st peace of Riga-Soviet Union recognizes Independence of Latvia

1920 Event - Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia

1918 Event - Latvia declares independence from Russia

1918 Event - Latvia proclaims independence

1918 Event - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar

1917 Event - German troops over run Riga Latvia

1886 Birthday - Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist and composer, Golem suite

1855 Birthday - Eliezer Ben-Jehuda, Perelmann, Latvia, writer, 1st hebrew newspaper

1764 Birthday - Barbara Juliane Krudener, Latvia, mystic visionary renounced nobility

1727 Death - Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42

1569 Event - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland

1514 Event - Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians













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