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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This day in history

19 April, 2011 - 00:00

1563: Rus’ first printers Ivan Fedorov and Petr Mstislavets open a print shop in Moscow and start printing the first dated Russian book, Apostolos.

1783: Catherine II of Russia signs an ukase annexing the Crimea and the Kuban region.

1917: The All-Ukrainian National Congress convenes in Kyiv, proclaims Ukraine’s national and territorial autonomy, and elects a new Central Rada, headed by Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

1917: A congress of peasant leaders is called to order; it forms the Ukrainian Peasant Association to carry out the agrarian reform.

1945: Yurii Fedkovych Literary-Memorial Museum is established in Chernivtsi.

1979: The Soviet [Council] of Ministers of the USSR adopts a decree founding a state university in Zaporizhia.

2002: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine visits Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.

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