This day in history

1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky is elected Hetman of Ukraine.

1848: The literary and educational society Halytsko-Ruska Matytsia is established in Lviv by the Supreme Ruthenian Council.

1938: The first convention (“congress”) of Soviet Ukrainian artists is held [in Kharkiv]; it establishes the Artists’ Union of Ukraine.

1941: Soviet troops retreat from Kharkiv after pitched battles with the Wehrmacht.

1941: Troops of the Third Ukrainian Front enter Dnipropetrovsk in the course of a military operation named after the city.

1950: Azovkabel Works starts manufacturing in Zaporizhia oblast.

1995: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine pays an official visit to Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, signing 15 international and intergovernmental agreements.

1995: United Workers Day is marked in Ukraine, with rallies of protest against the government’s economic policy and President Kuchma held in a number of cities.

2001: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the Land Code bill.