This day in history

1648: Cossack-peasant troops led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky besiege Kyiv.

1884: Fourteen Narodnaya Volya activists are under trial in St. Petersburg.

1918: Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky of Ukraine opens Kyiv State Ukrainian University.

1944: Units of the 1st Ukrainian Front and of the 1st Czechoslovakian Army Corps seize the Dukla Pass, marking the beginning of the “liberation of Czechoslovakia.”

1948: Ashgabat (capital city of today’s Turkmenistan) sustains the world’s deadliest earthquake, at a Magnitude of 7.3 Mw, causing heavy manpower losses. This date is currently observed as Turkmenistan’s Remembrance Day.

1975: Kyiv Dynamo soccer team wins European Super Cup.

1995: Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Station’s Unit 6 starts generating.

2001: In Lublin, Poland, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and President Alexander Kwasniewski of Poland launch the European College of Polish and Ukrainian Universities.