This day in history

1872: The Bessarabia-Taurica Land Bank starts operations in Odesa.

1918: Romanian troops seize Chernivtsi.

1918: The Ukrainian National Rada of Lviv forms its executive body, the State Secretariat.

1918: The Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) of the RSFSR submits to the Revolutionary Council of the Republic the Decree “On Preparations for Top Priority Aid to the Working People of Ukraine.”

1920: The Red Army seizes the Isthmus of Perekop, causing Wrangel’s troops to retreat.

1994: President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation signs an edict establishing Plesetsk Cosmodrome as a trial launch range of Russia’s Armed Forces.

2004: Vilfred Martens, leader of the European People’s Party, visits Ukraine to manifest his support for Viktor Yushchenko as a presidential candidate, as well as to discuss matters relating to Europe-Ukraine cooperation.

2004: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine launches the Kuchma Presidential Foundation.