Stanislav Kosior, Polish-Russian politician (d. 1939)
Stanisław Vikentyevich Kosior (Russian: Станислав Викентьевич Косиор, 18 November 1889 – 26 February 1939), sometimes spelled Kossior, was a Soviet politician who was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union and member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
In 2010, the Kyiv, Ukraine Court of Appeal affirmed criminal charges against Kosior with complicity in the Soviet government-engineered famine and genocide known as the Holodomor.
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Treaty of Wuchale
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Exposition Universelle (1889)
The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.