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Russia, Latvia: April 16 in History

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
Posted 16 April 2007 21:00 GMT

April 16 in history – at De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis: a failed attempt to kill the Russian emperor in 1866; the first Russian trade union is created in 1905; the museum of the red Latvian riflemen opened in Riga in 1970.

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