This day in history

1917: The Small Rada in Kyiv adopts a declaration of the General Secretariat, confirming Ukrainian statehood and outlining the nation-state-building guidelines.

1920: Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army and the Soviet Ukrainian government agree on a truce.

1926: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsVK) and the Soviet of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR adopt a decree making the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra [Cave Monastery] a government-protected historical and cultural preserve.

1941: In Nazi-occupied Kyiv, massacres against peaceful civilians begin, resulting in over 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, and Gypsies shot down the Babyn Yar ravine.

1955: Battleship  Novorossiysk explodes and sinks at Sevastopol under circumstances still to be ascertained.

1991: Kyiv hosts the constituent convention of the Green Party of Ukraine.

1997: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers a political association to become known as the Ukrainian National Assembly.