This day in history

1913: Government-run Pyoter Tchaikovsky Conservatory opens in Kyiv as Ukraine’s leading music school.

1918: Ukraine and the Extraordinary Mission of the Kuban Regional Government sign a trade, consular, sea, railroad, and financial cooperation agreement in Kyiv.

1924: Kharkiv transmits Ukraine’s first broadcast.

1966: The 5th Ukrainian Writers’ Congress convenes in Kyiv to defend the Ukrainian language against the Russification campaign.

1967: The 1st World Congress of Free Ukrainians is brought to order in New York City.

1991: The 1st Ukrainian Interethnic Congress is held in Odesa.

1994: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the bill on Ukraine’s accession to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

2004: Ukrainian journalists mark the Radio, Television and Communications Workers Day [instituted by President Leonid Kuchma, November 11, 1994] by protest rallies and graffiti condemning “bought” media workers.