<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War" id="mwAUc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Cox" id="mwAUg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lynne Cox">Lynne Cox</a> becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwAUk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, crossing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait" id="mwAUo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bering Strait">Bering Strait</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Diomede_Island" id="mwAUs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Little Diomede Island">Little Diomede Island</a> in Alaska to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Diomede" id="mwAUw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Big Diomede">Big Diomede</a> in the Soviet Union.<sup about="#mwt205" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"history.com"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-history.com-39"}}' id="cite_ref-history.com_39-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_7#cite_note-history.com-39" id="mwAU0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 39;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAU4">[39]</span></a></sup>