This day in history

1594: A Cossacks’ revolt led by Severyn Nalyvaiko begins.

1720: The Russian Tsar Peter the First signs an ukase prohibiting the Kyiv-Pechersk and Chernihiv printers to publish books without going through Great Russia censorship.

1908: Due to the Young Turk revolution and the weakening of Turkey, Bulgaria announces its refusal from the vassal subordination to Turkey established by the Berlin Treaty of 1878.

1918: Negotiations about the Crimea’s joining Ukraine begin. 1929: A monument to Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky is unveiled in Kharkiv.

1933: The People’s Commissariat for Education of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic passes a resolution about the Berezil Theater, according to which Les Kurbas was dismissed from the post of creative director and manager.

1942: The illegal Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine announces its resolution about the development of people’s partisan movement in Ukraine.