This day in history

1900: Ukraine’s first political party, the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), is founded.

1940: The first 220,000 Western Ukrainians are deported [on Stalin’s orders].

1940: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists splits into OUN-B (under Stepan Bandera’s control) and OUN-M (under Andrii Melnyk’s).

1947: The Paris Peace Treaties are signed by the victorious Allied powers (the Ukrainian SSR included) and the member countries of the defeated Axis.

1963: Zaporizhia Steelworks (Zaporizhstal) sets the world’s output record. 1995: The Ukrainian Certificate Auction Center is launched in Kyiv.

1995: Ukraine’s AN-70 prototype transport aircraft collides with an escorting AN-72 during a test flight, killing all seven crew members.

1998: The first issue of Den’s English-language weekly digest, The Day, comes off the presses.