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This day in history

18 March, 00:00

1848: The Hungarian Parliament passes the bill abolishing serfdom in Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia).

1871: The world’s first proletarian revolution begins in France, establishing the Paris Commune.

1913: The military organization Ukrainski sichovi striltsi (Ukrainian Riflemen of the Sich) is formed in Lviv, based on the organizations Sich and Sokoly.

1917: Ukraine’s first gymnasium (high school) opens in Kyiv with the noted Ukrainian pedagogue P. Kholodny as its principal.

1921: The RSFSR and the Ukrainian SSR, on one side, and Poland on the other, sign the Peace Treaty of Riga, ending the Soviet-Polish War of 1920.

1965: Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov is the first person to walk in space while on board the space vehicle Voskhod-2 piloted by Pavel Beliayev.

1969: The Soviet Union and the United States come up with the initiative of signing an international treaty banning nuclear tests in the ocean.

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