This day in history

1930: The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) adopts a decree on the Shevchenko Machine and Tractor Station.

1933: Open Hearth Blast Furnace No.1 is launched at the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works in Mariupil.

1941: Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree on the transfer and accommodation of the evacuated cattle and on arrangements for the winter.

1955: The machine building plant in Horlivka launches a full-scale production of the Donbas-2 upgraded mining machine.

1962: The world’s first live broadcast from Vostok 3 to the ground and vice versa marks the birth of Soviet space television.

1973: Moscow Central Television starts screening the series Seventeen Moments of Spring, instantly to become the Soviet Union’s number one blockbuster.

1989: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR establishes an interim committee to combat crime.

1989: A plenary session of the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR acquits all convicts in the case of the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine.