This week in history

April 20. 1978. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified a new Constitution of Ukrainian SSR.

1990. The founding conference of the Children of Chornobyl Ukrainian Republic Association took place.

April 21. 1775. Russian Empress Catherine II legalized serfdom in Ukraine.

1937. The Central Executive Committee of Ukrainian SSR adopted a decision On the State Emblem of Ukrainian SSR.

April 22. 1918. The All-Union Central Executive Committee approved the text of the solemn and first unified military oath.

1922. The Ukrainian Economic Academy was founded in Podebrady, Czechoslovakia.

April 23. 1848. The Rusky sobor [Ruthenian council] newspaper began publication in Lviv.

1991. The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR approved the law On the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations.

April 24. 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR passed a decree On Transferring All Private Higher and Secondary Education Institutions to State Financing.

1949. The Taras Shevchenko State Literary and Memorial Museum was opened in Kyiv.

April 25. 1945. The United Nations conference began in San Francisco, approving the UN Charter. Representatives of fifty countries, including Ukraine, took part.

1994. President Leonid Kuchma issued an order On Creating the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council.

April 26. The Day of Chornobyl Tragedy.

1986. An accident took place at the Fourth Bloc of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station.

1996. President Leonid Kuchma issued an order On Creating the Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste, and Radioecology.