2013 Event Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium hosts the 2013 World Championships in Athletics 2013 Event Russia grants NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden one year of temporary political asylum; Snowden leaves Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport 2013 Event NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden remains in Moscow, Russia; he is stranded at Russia's Sheremetyevo International Airport 2013 Event Russian politician Alexei Navalny, a prominent opposition figure, registers as candidate for Mayor in Moscow's September's election 2013 Event G20 finance ministers focus on the so-named "currency wars" during their meeting in Moscow, Russia 2012 Event In Moscow, tens of thousands protest against Vladimir Putin, chanting, 'We are the power here!' and 'Russia without Putin!' 2011 Event Moscow's Bolshoi Theater reopens after a six-year renovation, restoring it to it's pre-Soviet opulence 2011 Event Top airport security officials are fired after a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport kills 35 people, injures 130 2010 Event Rallies protesting constitutional abuses by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are held in Moscow, Russia 2010 Event Russia's Federal Security Service assassinates Magomedali Vagabov, a militant leader reportedly responsible for the 2010 Moscow Metro bombings 2010 Event At least 38 are killed and 60 injured when two female suicide bombers carry out two separate terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyana and Park Kultury 2009 Event The Russian Orthodox Church enthrones Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow as Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church 2007 Death Boris Yeltsin, died in Moscow, Russia, at 76, of congestive heart failure 1995 Event 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2) 1994 Event 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1) 1994 Death Tiger Haynes, U.S. actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79 1993 Event Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed 1993 Event Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow 1993 Event Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY 1993 Event 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow) 1991 Event "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin New York City after 32 performances 1991 Event "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin New York City for 32 performances 1991 Death Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies 1990 Event Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow 1990 Event 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds 1988 Event Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow 1988 Event Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years 1988 Event Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan 1987 Event Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns 1987 Event West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia 1985 Event "TASS" denounced U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics 1985 Event U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games 1985 Event Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow) 1984 Event Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow 1983 Event Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air 1982 Event Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev 1981 Birthday Anna Kournikova, born in Moscow, Russia, professional tennis player, model, winner, Grand Slam titles in Australia, 1999 and 2002 1980 Event 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, U.S.S.R. 1980 Event 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott 1980 Event West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow 1980 Event U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow 1980 Event President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow 1980 Event President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics 1976 Birthday Adriana Serra-Zanetti, born in Modena Italy, tennis star, 1995 Moscow semi 1975 Birthday Magdalena Maleeva, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, tennis star, 1995 Chicago Moscow 1975 Death Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72 1974 Birthday David Moscow, born in New York City, New York, actor, played role of young Josh in film 'Big' 1974 Birthday Valeri Bure, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Montreal Canadiens, Silver Meda 1998 Olympics 1974 Birthday Sergei Brylin, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center for the New Jersey Devils 1973 Birthday Sergey Brin, born in Moscow, Soviet Union, computer scientist, Google co-founder, speaker, National Academy of Engineering inductee 1973 Birthday Alexei Kovalev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing for the New York Rangers 1973 Birthday Elena Makarova, born in Moscow, Russia, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Val 1972 Birthday Oleg Fediukov, born in Moscow, Russia, dance skater, & Debbie Koegel 1972 Event Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die 1972 Event East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156 1972 Event U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow 1972 Death Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65 1972 Birthday Boris Mironov, born in Moscow, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics, Bronze Medal 2002 Olympics 1972 Event Dmitri Shostakovich' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow 1971 Event Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow 1971 Death Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow 1971 Birthday Elena Brioukhovets, born in Odessa, Ukraine, tennis star, finalist 1990 Moscow 1971 Birthday Oleg Petrov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Montreal Canadiens 1971 Birthday Pavel Bure, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL left wing, Vancouver Canucks 1971 Birthday Alexander Selivanov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Tampa Bay Lightning 1970 Birthday Alexei Zhamnov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics 1970 Birthday Igor Korolev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHLer, Team Russia, Winnipeg 1970 Birthday Sergei Zubov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Pittsburgh 1970 Birthday Alexander Karpovtsev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman for the New York Rangers 1969 Event Dmitri Shostakovich's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow 1968 Event Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow 1967 Event Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Violin concert, premieres in Moscow 1967 Birthday Sergei Grinkov, born in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian ice skater, Olympic and World figure skating champion 1966 Event Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow 1966 Birthday Andrei Olhovskiy, born in Moscow, Russia, tennis pro 1965 Birthday Dmitri Mironov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman, Pitts Penguins, Anaheim 1965 Event Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow 1965 Birthday M Shtalenkov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL goalie, Anaheim Mighty Ducks 1965 Birthday Mikhail Shtalenkov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL goalie, Team Russia, Anaheim 1965 Birthday German Titov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, Calgary Flames, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics 1965 Event KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, Idaho (PBS) begins broadcasting 1964 Event Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow 1964 Birthday Yuri Khmylev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres 1964 Birthday Alexei Gusarov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche 1964 Event U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy 1964 Birthday Sergei Nemchinov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, New York Islanders, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics 1963 Event Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins 1963 Event British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow 1963 Event Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow 1962 Event D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow 1962 Event Dmitri Shostakovich' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow 1962 Event Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated 1962 Event Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow 1962 Event Fidel Castro visits Moscow 1961 Event Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936) 1961 Event 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow 1961 Birthday Yolanda Chen, born in Moscow, Russia, triple jumper, indoor record 1960 Event Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow 1959 Event Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US 1959 Event Dmitri Shostakovich's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow 1959 Event Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow 1958 Event Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy 1958 Birthday Viacheslav Fetisov, born in Moscow, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Detroit 1957 Event Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow 1957 Birthday Maria Conchita Alonso, born in Cuba, actress, Moscow on the Hudson 1957 Event Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow 1957 Birthday Elena V. Kondakova, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, STS-84 1957 Event Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow, Russia 1956 Event Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow 1956 Event Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow 1956 Event 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow 1956 Event 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow 1955 Death Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies 1954 Event 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia) 1953 Birthday Alexander Fedorovich Poleshchuk, Moscow, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-16 1953 Event Josef Stalin buried in Moscow 1953 Event 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow 1952 Event 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow 1948 Event Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir 1948 Event 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow 1945 Event Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow 1944 Event General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow 1944 Event British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow 1943 Event Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow 1943 Event Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow 1943 Event Averell Harriman named U.S. ambassador to Moscow 1942 Event Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow 1942 Event Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow 1942 Event British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin 1941 Event Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army 1941 Event German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow 1941 Event Germany's drive to take Moscow halted 1941 Event Germany attacks Moscow 1941 Event Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow 1941 Event Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow 1941 Event Germans launch attack on Moscow 1941 Event D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow 1941 Event German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins 1941 Birthday Natalya Bessmertnova, born in Moscow, dancer, Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970 1936 Event Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow 1936 Event "Peter and Wolf" premieres in Moscow 1935 Birthday Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 7, 11 1935 Event Moscow underground opens (81 km long) 1933 Event Dmitri Shostakovich's Preludes, premieres in Moscow 1932 Birthday Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Moscow, composer, Humpback Horse 1931 Birthday Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, U.S.S.R. State Radio 1930 Birthday Paul Mazursky, born in Brooklyn, writer and director, Moscow on the Hudson 1930 Event Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid," premieres in Moscow 1929 Event Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow 1928 Event Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga," premieres in Moscow 1928 Birthday Evgeny Svetlanov, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, Siberian Fantasy 1927 Event Dmitri Shostakovich' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow 1927 Birthday Vladimir M. Komarov, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, Voshkod I Soyuz 1 1927 Event Dmitri Shostakovich' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow 1925 Event Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow 1924 Event Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow 1923 Birthday Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov 1922 Event Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station) 1922 Event "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize 1921 Birthday Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75 1919 Event Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms 1918 Death Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies 1918 Event Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1914 Event Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow 1914 Birthday Kirill P. Kondrashin, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, Hollywood Bowl 1981 1913 Birthday John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host, One Minute Please 1908 Event Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue," premieres in Moscow 1908 Birthday David Oistrakh, born in Odessa, Russia, violinist and professor, Moscow Conservatory 1906 Birthday Victor Wong, LA Cal, actor, Mission to Moscow, Son of Kong, King Kong 1906 Birthday Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ, 1927 1905 Death Serge Alexandrovich, Governor-General Moscow, murdered 1904 Birthday George F. Kennan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. ambassador, to Moscow 1904 Event Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater 1902 Event Maksin Gorki's "Na dne," premieres in Moscow 1901 Event Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater 1900 Birthday Eugenie Leontovitch, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Homicidal 1899 Birthday Nikolai Batalov, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Mother 1899 Birthday Olga Baclanova, born in Moscow, Russia, actress, Freaks, Docks of New York 1892 Event Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow 1891 Event Jews are expelled from Moscow, Russia 1889 Birthday Vladimir Sokoloff, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Road to Morocco 1883 Event Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow 1882 Event Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow 1879 Event Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow 1878 Event Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow 1877 Event Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow 1872 Birthday Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer, Prometheus 1869 Birthday Hans Erich Pfitzner, born in Moscow, Russia, composer, Krakquer Begrus 1863 Birthday Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist and professor, Moscow Cons 1888-91 1859 Event Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow 1854 Event Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow 1812 Event Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow 1812 Event Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs 1812 Event Fire of Moscow 1812 Event French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow 1812 Event Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th) 1755 Event 1st Russian university opens (Moscow) 1752 Event 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed 1752 Event Moscow houses and churchs destroyed by fire 1699 Event 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow 1698 Event Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe 1671 Death Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow 1665 Event Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow 1649 Event Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow 1648 Event Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov 1633 Death Filaret, Fjodor N Romanov, patriarch of Moscow, dies 1619 Event Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow 1613 Event Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar 1569 Event St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible 1569 Death St. Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible 1552 Event Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle 1547 Event Great fire in Moscow 1547 Event Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow 1533 Death Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54 1479 Birthday Vasili III, great prince of Moscow 1505-33 amd son of Ivan III 1478 Event Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod 1472 Event Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow 1448 Event Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication 1380 Event Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols 1359 Death Ivan II, great ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, dies
