This week in history

October 7: 1990. The Fifteenth Congress of Trade Unions of Ukraine ended, founding the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine.

1996. After re-registration the Ukrainian Cossacks national patriotic organization gained the status of a defense and sports association.

October 8: 1886. The Kharkiv Public Library received its first readers.

1938. The first government of autonomous Transcarpathia, which on December 30, 1938 became Carpatho-Ukraine, was formed in Uzhhorod.

October 9: 1928. The Greek Catholic Theological Academy was founded in Lviv.

1944. The People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR issued an order On Liquidating OUN Bands in Western Ukraine.

October 10: 1932. The first nuclear reaction splitting the nucleus of lithium was conducted at the Kharkiv Physics and Technical Institute.

1973. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine passed a secret resolution providing for repressive actions against unregistered religious groups.

October 11: 1653. The Assembly of the Land passed a decision on taking the Zaporozhzhian Host under the protectorate of the Muscovite tsar.

1921. The First All-Ukrainian Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church opened in Kyiv.

October 12: 1920. Soviet Russia and Ukraine, on the one hand, and Poland on the other signed an agreement on an armistice and preliminary peace conditions in Riga.

1960. Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe at the tribune during his speech at the UN General Assembly.

October 13: 1914. Russian Military Governor of Galicia General Count Bobrynsky issued an order banning the dissemination of Ukrainian books.

1992. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine confirmed Leonid Kuchma as prime minister of Ukraine.