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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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