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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

27 November, 2012 - 00:00

1709: Peter I of Russia signs an ukase forming Russia’s first Marines regiment.

1880: Tsarist Russia’s Interior Ministry establishes a police department to combat the revolutionary movement.

1897: Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works starts manufacturing cast iron in what is currently Donetsk oblast of Ukraine.

1918: The Academy of Sciences (currently the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) is established in Kyiv, headed by President Volodymyr Vernadsky.

1971: The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Mars 2 orbiter and lander. The spacecraft reaches Mars; due to on-board computer malfunction the lander enters the Martian atmosphere incorrectly, which results in crash landing and loss of the probe.

2004: NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer urges the Ukrainian administration to carefully study the results of the presidential campaign.

2004: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a bill aimed at overcoming the political crisis.

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