This day in history

1795: The Russian Empire orders Right-Bank Ukraine’s gubernias reorganized as namestnichestvo viceregencies.

1842: The second volume of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls comes off the presses.

1918: Germany and Austria-Hungary formally acknowledge the Hetman State of Ukraine.

1935: The Politburo and the Organizing Bureau of the CC CP(B) of Ukraine adopt a decree on the republic’s veteran political exiles association, whereupon this organization is disbanded.

1944: The State Defense Committee of the USSR resolves to deport the ethnic Bulgarian, Armenian, and Greek residents from the Crimea.

1980: Kyiv Spring Festival ends in the Ukrainian capital city.

1990: Kyiv hosts the first convention of the Independent Ukrainian Youth Association.

1997: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and President Emil Constantinescu of Romania sign a neighborhood and cooperation agreement in Constanta.