This day in history

1665: Muscovy and Left-Bank Ukraine’s starshyna Cossack nobility, led by Hetman Ivan Briukhovetsky, sign the Moscow Articles.

1933: Hitler withdraws Nazi Germany from the League of Nations.

1943: The Minsk ghetto is liquidated by the Nazis. Most of the surviving inhabitants are sent off to die in the Sobibor and Maly Trostianets extermination camps.

1945: Women allowed to vote in France for the first time.

1968: Tashkent [capital city of Soviet Uzbekistan] hosts the first Asian, African, and Latin American film festival.

1987: A plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC CPSU) condemns Boris Yeltsin’s presentation, thus adding to his popularity.

1989: The Shevchenko Scientific Society resumes in Lviv.

1994: Heads of CIS states sign a comprehensive guidelines development memorandum.