1735 -- The Tsar Bell was cast.
1795 -- On the name day of Catherine II, the last Polish king and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Stanisław August Poniatowski, abdicated the throne, thereby completing the third partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1819 -- Russian Emperor Alexander I issued a decree to the Senate to establish the position of chief director of the Page Corps, Cadet Corps, and the Noble Regiment Corps, appointing P. P. Konovnitsyn to the role.
1946 -- The official date of the founding of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
1985 -- In Angola, a Soviet Air Force An-12BP transport aircraft was shot down by a MANPADS, resulting in the deaths of 23 people.
1993 -- One of the most brutal gangland confrontations of the early 1990s occurred -- a shooting at the Ryazselmash factory club in the city of Ryazan. Eight were killed, and nine were injured. The organizer of the shooting was the Slonovskaya organized crime group.
2021 -- Explosion at the Listvyazhnaya mine.