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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This day in history

15 November, 2012 - 00:00

1918: Directory-headed revolt against Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky begins.

1919: The UNR’s State Council, jointly with the Directory, appoints Symon Petliura as the national republic’s commander-in-chief.

1939: Kyiv hosts the third extraordinary session of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR that makes Western Ukraine part of the Ukrainian SSR.

1945: The Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences is established in [West] Germany.

1946: The Soviet of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR adopts the new Ukrainian orthography rules.

1988: Buran remains the only Soviet Shuttle-like spacecraft to have accomplished one unmanned flight, orbiting Earth twice [Buran program will be cancelled in 1993].

2004: Ukraine’s National Channel One broadcasts Yushchenko vs. Yanukovych presidential debate.

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