A chronological list of the important events for
the topic "Red Square"
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1924 Lenin is buried in a mausoleum in the Red Square.
1945 World War II: Victory parade in Red Square
1987 Nineteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades SovietSoviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , more commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a Communist state [i] ...
air defenses and lands a private plane on Red Square in MoscowMoscow Moscow is the capital [i] of Russia [i] and the country's principal political, economic, financial, edu ...
. He is immediately detained (but is released on Wednesday, August 3, 1988).
1987 In MoscowMoscow Moscow is the capital [i] of Russia [i] and the country's principal political, economic, financial, edu ...
, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
2003 A female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow'sMoscow Moscow is the capital [i] of Russia [i] and the country's principal political, economic, financial, edu ...
National Hotel, across from the Kremlin and Red Square, killing 5 bystanders.
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