This day in history

1918: Ukrainian troops led by Colonel Petro Bolbochan set off to fight the Bolsheviks.

1938: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR and the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine adopt a decree that makes Russian a compulsory language course in all non-Russian schools in Ukraine.

1949: The First World Congress of Defenders of Peace is held in Paris and Prague and adopts the Peace Manifesto.

1978: The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopts the new Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR.

1990: The Ukrainian republican association “Chornobyl Children” holds a constituent assembly.

1993: Kyiv hosts the First International Hotkevych Bandura Competition.

1994: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratifies the CIS Collective Security Treaty.

1994: The first issue of the Chornobyl 30-km Exclusion Zone Newsletter comes off the presses.

1994: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Socialist Youth Congress.