Soviet space dog Laika
1957 · Event
Sputnik 2 carries the first living creature into orbit.
On these timelines: Russia & the USSR, Science & Technology, The Space Race, Spaceflight, Master
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- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
Around 1957
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)