Wind. The average daily wind speed in October has been around 9 km/h, thatâs the equivalent to about 6 mph, or 5 knots. In recent years the maximum sustained wind speed has reached 87 km/h, thatâs the equivalent of around 54 mph, or 47 knots.
Josef Stalin in World War II. Josef Stalin (1878-1953) served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Initially, Stalin's role in the Committee was limited, but he gradually accumulated power and became the Party's leader and absolute ruler of the Soviet Union.
Joseph Stalin dies. On this day, Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union since 1924, dies in Moscow. Like his right-wing counterpart, Hitler, who was born in Austria, Joseph Stalin was not a native of the country he ruled with an iron fist. Isoeb Dzhugashvili was born in 1889 in Georgia, then part of the old Russian empire.