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1999 During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China

1992 Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to with Chess title in Belgrade

1975 Ivo Andric, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina', dies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, at age 82

1972 Daniel Nestor, born in Belgrade Yugo, Canadian tennis player 1996 Olympics

1961 1st conference of neutral countries held in Belgrade

1960 Danny Mijovic, Belgrade Yugo, Canadian Tour golfer, 1984 Mexican

1958 Ivo Pogorelich, Belgrade Yugoslavia, pianist, 1978 Casagrande winner

1955 Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade

1944 Tito reaches free Belgrade

1944 Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade

1941 Nazi's directs gypsy ghetto in Belgrade

1941 Ammunition plant at Fort Smederovo in Belgrade explodes; kills 1,500

1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)

1937 Italy and Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)

1932 Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director, Man is Not a Bird

1931 Ivan V. Lalic, born in Belgrade, Serbia, poet, awarded most prestigious literary prizes in Yugoslavia, poems are translated into more than twenty languages

1918 Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade

1915 Belgrade Serbia, surrenders to Central leaders

1914 Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary

1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia

1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade

1913 Oskar Danon, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, composer, conductor, earned Ph.D. musicology in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, director for Belgrade Opera, chief conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

1739 Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Belgrade

1739 Turkey and Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks

1739 Turks defeats Holy Roman Emp at Crocyka Yugoslavia and threaten Belgrade

1717 Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade

1690 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade

1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade

1521 Turkish troops occupy Belgrade

1521 Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade

1521 Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade

1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II


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