2012 Event Ceremonies commemorating the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il were held outside the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun mausoleum in Pyongyang; the nation observed three-minutes of silence to honor him 2011 Event Former Cuban President Fidel Castro makes his first appearance outside of Havana since leaving office in 2006, visiting a mausoleum in Artemisa 2010 Event At least 70 people are killed and 300 wounded in a series of bombings over the three-day Shia pilgrimage to the Musa Kadhim mausoleum in Iraq 1993 Event Last honor guard at Lenin's mausoleum 1989 Event Mausoleum of Beatrice of Brabant (1288) discovered in Kortrijk Belgium 1951 Event Queen Juliana opens Brielsche Mausoleum 1924 Event Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square 1686 Death Mathias Rauchmuller, German sculptor (Piasten mausoleum Poland), dies
