The Kremlin's ruby stars are less than a century old. Double-headed eagles topped the towers until 1935; they gave way to stars set with gems, and in 1937 to today's ruby-glass stars.

1935 · 1937 · apart: 2 years

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• Building the brick walls of the Moscow Kremlin1485–1495 · Moscow Kremlin. In 1485–1495, under Ivan III, Italian masters including Pietro Antonio Solari built the new brick walls and towers of the Moscow Kremlin. The fortress survives to this day.

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• 1934 Until 1934 people in Turkey were not required to have surnames.
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• 1934 The first Heroes of the Soviet Union were pilots who flew people off an ice floe.
• 1935 Until 1935 the West called the country Persia.
• 1936 The thylacine was granted protection on 10 July 1936; the last known animal died at Hobart Zoo on 7 September — just 59 days later.
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