diff --git a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
index 33ef1d39522a..21c1a55bb195 100644
--- a/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
+++ b/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.birthday
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 01/01	J.D. Salinger born, 1919
 01/01	Paul Revere born in Boston, 1735
-01/02	Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR (now part of USSR), 1920
+01/02	Isaac Asimov born in Petrovichi, Russian SFSR, 1920
 01/04	George Washington Carver born in Missouri, 1864
 01/04	Jakob Grimm born, 1785
 01/04	Wilhelm Beer born, 1797, first astronomer to map Mars