Russian engineer and politician (born 1886)

Sergey Kirov

Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become head of the party in Leningrad and a member of the Politburo.

Born

1886

March 27

Died

1934

Era

1880s

Country

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Sergey, in brief

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1886 Born
1934 Died

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1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

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The world in 1934

When Sergey departed

april 12 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
april 12 The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.[citation needed]
april 21 The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, it is revealed to be a hoax).
august 11 The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

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Andrei Kozyrev 1951– Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia Edward Steichen 1879–1973 Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879) George Giffen 1859–1927 Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927) Georgios Katrougalos 1963– Greek jurist and politician Jakob Sverdrup 1845– Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (died 1899) John Sulston 1942– English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018) Karl Mannheim 1893–1947 Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (born 1893) Kathleen Scott 1878–1947 English sculptor (born 1878) Kenta Kobashi 1967– Japanese professional wrestler

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1886

Art Ross 1886–1964 Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1886) Charlie Macartney 1886–1958 Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1958) Ed Wynn 1886–1966 American actor and comedian (born 1886) Edward Weston 1886–1936 English-American chemist (born 1850) Florence Goodenough 1886–1959 American child psychologist (born 1886) Fred Quimby 1886–1965 American animation producer (died 1965) Hella Wuolijoki 1886–1954 Estonian-Finnish author and politician (born 1886) Joyce Kilmer 1886–1918 American soldier, author, and poet (died 1918) Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 1886–1965 Japanese author (died 1965)

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