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Did you know? When Vladimir Menshov's film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears" won the 1981 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the director heard the news on television on 1 April — and assumed it was an April Fools' joke. Soviet authorities never let him travel to Hollywood for the ceremony. He did not hold his statuette in his hands until 1989.

Did you know? When Leonid Hurwicz received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for his theory of mechanism design, he was 90 years old — according to the Nobel Foundation, the oldest person ever to be awarded a Nobel. Too frail to travel to Stockholm, he accepted it in a lecture hall in Minneapolis, where the Swedish ambassador handed it to him in person.

Did you know? As a teenager Yuri Shatunov lived in Children's Home No. 2 in Orenburg, where a young music teacher discovered him. Together they founded Laskovyi Mai — the Soviet Union's first teen boy band. At its peak in 1989 the band played around 2,500 concerts in a single year, often four or five a day, and sent an entire country into a daydream.

Today, Eugen Walaschek (1917–2007) would have turned 109. Swiss footballer.

Today marks 10 years since Anton Yelchin (1989–2016) passed away. American actor.