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This day in history

24 April, 00:00

1919: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a series of decrees placing all grade and higher schools on central budget payroll, nationalizing all health care centers and sanitary facilities.

1927: Moscow hosts the world’s first model exhibit of interplanetary spacecraft, designs, and historical material.

1938: Russian starts being introduced as the grade school instruction language in Ukraine.

1939: Date of death of Iovann [John] Bokshai, a Greek Catholic priest, author of religious songs and piano compositions in Transcarpathia.

1946: Soviet test pilots fly the first Mig-9 and Yak-15 jet models.

1949: Taras Shevchenko State Literary-Memorial Museum starts functioning in Kyiv.

1990: The Supreme Soviet of the USSR passes the bill on the languages of the peoples [ethnic minorities] of the Soviet Union.

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