This day in history

1661: The Polish king grants Lviv’s Jesuit College the academic status of university.

1918: Soviet Russia’s People’s Secretariat adopts a decree on the formation of the Workers and Peasants’ Red Army in Ukraine.

1918: Kyiv hosts an All-Ukraine Church Council.

1943: The first issue of Ukrainske Slovo comes off the presses in Winnipeg (Canada).

1972: Rev. Vasyl Romaniuk is arrested by the KGB in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast and sentenced to seven years in the prison camps on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda.

2005: The newspapers Holos Ukrainy and Uriadovy kurier carry the results of a revote making Viktor Yushchenko Ukraine’s third president.

2005: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to hold the ceremony of inauguration of President Viktor Yushchenko in Parliament on January 23, 2005.