October Revolution event. 7 November, the anniversary of the October Revolution, was the official national day of the Soviet Union from 1918 onward and still is a public holiday in Belarus and the breakaway territory of Transnistria. The October revolution of 1917 also marks the inception of the first communist government in Russia, and thus the first large-scale socialist state in world history. After this Russia became the Russian SFSR and later part of the USSR, which dissolved in late 1991. October Revolution The October Revolution (), officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution (, '), and commonly
The Secret of the Old Clock Canadian public domain, as Harriet Stratmeyer Adams died in 1982. However, the original text, as written by Mildred Wirt Benson (who died in 2002), and the character of Nancy Drew, will not enter the Canadian public domain until January 1, 2053, due to Canada's life-plus-50 years copyright policy. (Canadian Copyright Act, Sections 6.1 & 6.2) In the United States, the original text will enter the American public domain in 2025 (95 years after it was first published), while the revised text will not enter until 2054. The Secret of the Old Clock The Secret of the Old Clock is the