Topic: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

On Dec. 25, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as Soviet president the day before Russia's Supreme Soviet (the name for the USSR's legislative bodies) voted to end the Soviet Union.

On Nov. 11, 1921, President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

On Oct. 17, 1931, gangster Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. It took jurors four days to decide whether the mobster had cheated the Internal Revenue Service out of $215,000.

On Nov. 11, 1918, hostilities ceased between Germany and the Allies at 11 a.m. French time, thus ending the Great War.

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