This week in history
June 10: 1917. The Ukrainian Central Rada proclaimed in its First Universal the autonomy of Ukraine.
1994. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Ukrainian Students League.
June 11: 1921. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decision, On Fighting Children’s Homelessness.
1992. The International Jewish Solomon University was founded in Kyiv.
June 12: 1943. The Carpathian raid to unite Stalinist partisans under Semen Kovpak began.
June 13: 1917. A Congress of Ukrainian Lawyers took place at the Kyiv Pedagogical Museum, where Mykhailo Hrushevsky delivered a report, On Ukraine’s State Order Basing Upon the Life Requirements and Theory of State Law.
1996. President Leonid Kuchma announced that the transfer of strategic nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia was completed.
June 14: 1933: Secretary of the organizational bureau of the Chernihiv oblast Party committee Markitan asked 200 tons of bread grain from the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine to feed people; he did not get it.
1994. An Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation was signed in Luxembourg between Ukraine and the European Community.
1997. A new all-Ukrainian trade union organization, the Union of Ukraine’s Free Trade Unions, was created.
June 15: 1775. The Zaporozhzhian Sich was destroyed by the Russian Army.
1918. The first issue of the Komunist [Communist] weekly, organ of the organizing bureau for convoking yet another “First” Congress of Bolshevik Organizations of Ukraine, was published in Moscow.
June 16: 1934. The First Writers’ Congress of Ukraine began, creating the Writers’ Union of Ukraine.
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