1995 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)
1994 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
1994 Tiger Haynes, U.S. actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79
1993 Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
1993 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
1993 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
1993 1st test flight of Ilyushin IL-96M (Moscow)
1991 "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin New York City after 32 performances
1991 "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin New York City for 32 performances
1991 Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies
1990 Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
1990 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
1988 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
1988 Israeli diplomats arrive in Moscow for 1st visit in 21 years
1988 Moscow began withdrawing its 115,000 troops in Afghanistan
1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
1987 West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1985 "TASS" denounced U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics
1985 U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1984 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
1983 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
1980 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, U.S.S.R.
1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott
1980 West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
1980 U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
1980 President Jimmy Carter announces U.S. boycott of Olympics in Moscow
1980 President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics
1976 Adriana Serra-Zanetti, born in Modena Italy, tennis star, 1995 Moscow semi
1975 Magdalena Maleeva, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, tennis star, 1995 Chicago Moscow
1975 Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72
1974 David Moscow, actor, Big
1974 Valeri Bure, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Montreal Canadiens, Oly-S-98
1974 Sergei Brylin, Moscow Rus, NHL center for the New Jersey Devils
1973 Alexei Kovalev, Moscow Rus, NHL right wing for the New York Rangers
1973 Elena Makarova, born in Moscow, Russia, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Val
1972 Oleg Fediukov, born in Moscow, Russia, dance skater, & Debbie Koegel
1972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
1972 East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156
1972 U.S. president Nixon begins visit Moscow
1972 Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65
1972 Boris Mironov, born in Moscow, NHL defenseman, Team Russia Oly-S-98, Edmonton
1972 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 15th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 Nikita Krushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow
1971 Elena Brioukhovets, born in Odessa, Ukraine, tennis star, finalist 1990 Moscow
1971 Oleg Petrov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Montreal Canadiens
1971 Pavel Bure, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL left wing, Vancouver Canucks
1971 Alexander Selivanov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL right wing, Tampa Bay Lightning
1970 Alexei Zhamnov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, Winnipeg Jets, Oly-S-98
1970 Igor Korolev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHLer, Team Russia, Winnipeg
1970 Sergei Zubov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Pittsburgh
1970 Alexander Karpovtsev, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman for the New York Rangers
1969 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1968 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow
1967 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Violin concert, premieres in Moscow
1966 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow
1966 Andrei Olhovskiy, born in Moscow, Russia, tennis pro
1965 Dmitri Mironov, Moscow Rus, NHL defenseman, Pitts Penguins, Anaheim
1965 Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow
1965 M Shtalenkov, Moscow Rus, NHL goalie, Anaheim Mighty Ducks
1965 Mikhail Shtalenkov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL goalie, Team Russia, Anaheim
1965 German Titov, Moscow Rus, NHL center, Calgary Flames, Oly-Silver-1998
1965 KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow
1964 Yuri Khmylev, Moscow Rus, NHL left wing for the Buffalo Sabres
1964 Alexei Gusarov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL defenseman for the Colorado Avalanche
1964 U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1964 Sergei Nemchinov, Moscow Rus, NHL center, New York Islanders, Oly-Silver-98
1963 Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins
1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1963 Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
1962 D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow
1962 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 13th Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
1962 Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow
1962 Fidel Castro visits Moscow
1961 Moscow: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' 4th Symphony (out 1936)
1961 22nd congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1961 Yolanda Chen, born in Moscow, Russia, triple jumper, indoor record
1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1959 Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US
1959 Dmitri Shostakovitch's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow
1959 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Moscow-Tsjerjomoesjki, premieres in Moscow
1958 Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
1958 Viacheslav Fetisov, born in Moscow, NHL defenseman, Team Russia, Detroit
1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 11th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1957 Maria Conchita Alonso, born in Cuba, actress, Moscow on the Hudson
1957 Dmitri Sjostakovitsch 2nd Piano concert, premieres in Moscow
1957 Elena V. Kondakova, born in Moscow Russia, cosmonaut, STS 84
1957 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
1956 Lenins politics testament (1923) published in Moscow
1956 Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1956 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1955 Philips C Visser, explorer/ambassador to Moscow, dies
1954 1st atomic power station opens (Obninsk, near Moscow, Russia)
1953 Alexander Fedorovich Poleshchuk, Moscow, cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-16
1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1953 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow
1952 19th congress of Communist Party meets in Moscow
1948 Demonstration by Moscow Jews honoring Israeli ambassador Golda Meir
1948 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1945 Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1944 General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow
1944 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Moscow
1943 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1943 Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow
1943 Averell Harriman named U.S. ambassador to Moscow
1942 Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
1942 Premier Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1942 British premier Churchill arrives in Moscow, meets Stalin
1941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
1941 German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
1941 Daniel Manus Pinkwater, U.S., sci-fi author, Magic Moscow
1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941 Germany attacks Moscow
1941 Germany advances within 60 miles of Moscow
1941 Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
1941 Germans launch attack on Moscow
1941 D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
1941 German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins
1941 Natalya Bessmertnova, born in Moscow, dancer, Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970
1936 Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
1936 "Peter and Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1935 Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, Soyuz 7, 11
1935 Moscow underground opens (81 km long)
1933 Dmitri Shostakovitch's Preludes, premieres in Moscow
1932 Rodion Konstantinovich Schedrin, Moscow, composer, Humpback Horse
1931 Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, U.S.S.R. State Radio
1930 Paul Mazursky, born in Brooklyn, writer and director, Moscow on the Hudson
1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Moskva Golid," premieres in Moscow
1929 Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow
1928 Valentin Katayev's "Kvadratura Kruga," premieres in Moscow
1928 Evgeny Svetlanov, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, Siberian Fantasy
1927 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 2nd Symphony, premieres in Moscow
1927 Vladimir M. Komarov, born in Moscow, Russia, cosmonaut, Voshkod I Soyuz 1
1927 Dmitri Shostakovitch' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow
1925 Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow
1924 Sokolnicheskaya Radio begins broadcasting from Moscow
1923 Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
1922 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75
1919 Moscow's Politburo/Central Committee forms
1918 Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1914 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
1914 Kirill P. Kondrashin, born in Moscow, Russia, conductor, Hollywood Bowl 1981
1913 John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host, One Minute Please
1908 Maurice Maeterlinck's "L'oiseau Blue," premieres in Moscow
1908 David Oistrakh, Odessa Russia, violinist and professor, Moscow Conservatory
1906 Victor Wong, LA Cal, actor, Mission to Moscow, Son of Kong, King Kong
1906 Vera Menchik, Moscow, 1st official women's world chess champ, 1927
1905 Serge Alexandrovich, Governor-General Moscow, murdered
1904 Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1902 Maksin Gorki's "Na dne," premieres in Moscow
1901 Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1900 Eugenie Leontovitch, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Homicidal
1899 Nikolai Batalov, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Mother
1899 Olga Baclanova, born in Moscow, Russia, actress, Freaks, Docks of New York
1892 Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow
1891 Jews are expelled from Moscow Russia
1889 Vladimir Sokoloff, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Road to Morocco
1883 Czar Alexander III crowned in Moscow
1882 Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
1879 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin," premieres in Moscow
1878 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bespridannitsa," premieres in Moscow
1877 Tsjaikovski's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow
1872 Alexander N Scriabin, Moscow, hallucinogenic composer, Prometheus
1869 Hans Erich Pfitzner, born in Moscow, Russia, composer, Krakquer Begrus
1863 Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof, Moscow Cons 1888-91
1859 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
1854 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow
1812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
1812 Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses and 1,000 churchs
1812 Fire of Moscow
1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)
1755 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
1752 3rd great fire in Moscow in 2 weeks; 1/3 of city destroyed
1752 Moscow houses and churchs destroyed by fire
1699 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
1698 Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow
1665 Nicolaas Witsen visits patriarch Nikon in Moscow
1649 Czar Aleksei throws out English merchants from Moscow
1648 Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
1633 Filaret, [Fjodor N Romanov], patriarch of Moscow, dies
1619 Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
1613 Michael Romanov, son of Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
1569 St. Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1569 St. Philip, metropolitan of Moscow, martyred by Ivan the Terrible
1552 Czar Ivan IV escapes back to Moscow after battle
1547 Great fire in Moscow
1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow
1533 Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54
1479 Vasili III, great prince of Moscow 1505-33 amd son of Ivan III
1478 Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1472 Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow
1448 Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication
1380 Battle on Kulikovo: Moscow's great monarch Dimitri beats Mongols
1359 Ivan II, great ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, dies
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