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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













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