This week in history

November 26: 1917. An organizing congress (Kurultai) of the Crimean Tatars took place, putting forward a slogan, The Crimea for the Crimeans.

1944. The First Congress of Delegates from People’s Committees of Transcarpathian Ukraine approved a manifesto On the Reunification of Transcarpathian Ukraine with Soviet Ukraine.

November 27: 1648. Polish King Jan II Kazimierz issued a universal guaranteeing Cossack rights.

1918. The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, now National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, was established in Kyiv.

November 28: 1918. The Provisional Workers and Peasants Government of Ukraine was created, issuing a manifesto On Overthrowing Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky and Establishing Soviet Power in Ukraine.

1994. A meeting of the Constitutional Committee was held, meaning the renewing of the constitutional process in Ukraine.

November 29: 1661. Lviv University was founded, now named for Ivan Franko.

1989. The reburial of victims of Stalinist repression took place in Ivano-Frankivsk.

November 30: 1921 . The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee passed a decision On an Amnesty for Workers and Peasants Who Served in Enemy Armies or Live Abroad.

1996. By a presidential order the Customs Service of Ukraine was established.

December 1: 1990. The founding congress of the Party for Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine opened in Kyiv.

1991 . The Ukrainian people confirmed the Act Proclaiming Ukraine’s Independence in a referendum, while Leonid Kravchuk was elected President of Ukraine.

December 2: 1864. The first performance of Symon Hulak- Artemovsky’s opera Zaporozhzhian Cossack beyond the Danube took place in St. Petersburg.

1960. The biggest blast furnace in the world, Kryvorizka- Komsomolska, was put into operation in Kryvy Rih.