Labels:text | font | screenshot | paper | number OCR: CHRONOLOGY FEBRUARY 1, 1931 Bom Nikolayevich Yeltsin in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), U.S.S.R. 1961 Joins the Soviet Communist party. 1976 Appointed first secretary of the Sverdlovsk Communist party. APRIL 1985 Appointed to the Politburo by Mikhail Gorbachev. NOVEMBER 12, 1987 Falls out with Gorbachev and is stripped of his posts. JULY 13, 1990 Resigns from the Soviet Communist party. JUNE 13, 1991 Elected president of the Russian Republic. AUGUST 1991 Leads resistance to coup by KGB and army hardliners. OCTOBER 1993 Orders tank bombardment of the Russian parliament building and the arrest of opposition leaders. DECEMBER 1994 Orders invasion of Chechnya by Russian troops.
