This day in history

1839: Pavlo Chubynsky, future Ukrainian folklorist, ethnographer, poet, author of the lyrics of Ukraine’s national anthem Ukraine Is Not Yet Dead, is born in Boryspil.

1920: The Vseukrrevkom [All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee] adopts a decree whereby all of the RSFSR’s decrees take legal effect in the Ukrainian SSR.

1924: Kyiv City and Gubernia Soviet [Council] adopts a decree on the erection of a monument to Lenin.

1929: The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) takes shape after a founding congress in Vienna.

1944: Troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front launch the Rivne-Lutsk offensive.

1944: A plenary meeting of the CC VKP(b) convenes in Moscow to consider granting extended defense rights to the Soviet republics.

2005: President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine, addressing PACE in Strasbourg, stresses that Ukraine’s general foreign political strategy is aimed at integration with the EU.