Moscow, Russia. Boris Yeltsin orders the White House in Moscow, where Communist Russian parliamentarians were barricaded after the attempted coup, to be bombarded and then occupied. A dozen T-72 tanks fire twelve rounds, ten of them blanks. The besieged rebels surrender, raising the white flag. Sniper fire continues throughout the night. Ultimately, 187 people are killed and a thousand wounded. However, unofficial figures suggest a much more serious outcome.
