This day in history

1654: John II Casimir of Poland issues an edict urging the Zaporozhian Host to remain loyal to Rzeczpospolita.

1915: Lev Yurkevych establishes the journal Borot’ba in Switzerland as the organ of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Labor Party abroad, campaigning for Russia’s defeat in WW I.

1949: Kyiv hosts a plenary meeting of the Soviet Writers’ Union of Ukraine, focusing on struggle against “cosmopolitans and antipatriots.”

1961: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR appoints Volodymyr Shcherbytsky as Chairman of the Soviet [Council] of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

1992: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes a resolution on the National Flag of Ukraine.

1996: Ukraine and Poland agree on the formation of a joint peacekeeping battalion for Kosovo.

2006: A monument to Mykola Sviatosha (Nicholas the Saint, a.k.a. Prince Sviatoslav of Chernihiv) is unveiled in the vicinity of the Sviatoshyn District/Raion State Administration in Kyiv.