This day in history

1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky is elected Hetman of Ukraine.

1667: Muscovy and Poland sign the Treaty of Andrusovo, under which Left-Bank Ukraine remained under Muscovite rule, while Right-Bank Ukraine, except Kyiv, was transferred to Poland.

1918: The Peace Treaty of Brest is signed in which Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria recognize Ukraine as an independent state.

1929: Moscow hosts a Week of Ukrainian Literature for the first time.

1942: Nazi occupation authorities in Kyiv arrest Olena Teliha and other Ukrainian intellectuals, mostly OUN-Melnyk activists.

1943: CC VKP(b) adopts a decree to set up a book stock of 4 million copies to replenish the libraries devastated during the Nazi occupation.

1993: The Ministry of Justice registers the Ukrainian Labor Front.

1993: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine visits Great Britain.