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.






