This week in history

September 10: 1919. At the Paris Peace Conference between the Entente and Austria a treaty was signed fixing the collapse of the Austro- Hungarian Empire and acknowledging Romania’s claims to Bukovyna and Czechoslovakia’s to Transcarpathia.

1955. A new bridge across the Dnipro was put into operation in Dnipropetrovsk.

September 11: 1943. The Veriovka State Meritorious Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir was founded.

1993. A memorial symbol to the victims of the manmade famine in Ukraine was unveiled in Kyiv.

September 12: 1995. Ukraine and Israel signed a memorandum On Liberalizing Trade.

1996. The Center for Aerospace Education of Young People Ukraine was founded in Dnipropetrovsk.

September 13: 1848. The Ukrainian Language Department was founded at Lviv University.

1911. Social Revolutionary Bohrov made an assassination attempt against Russian Prime Minister PСtr Stolypin in Kyiv, resulting in his death on September 18.

September 14: 1995. An official ceremony of approving the Individual Cooperation Plan between Ukraine and NATO took place in Brussels.

1996. The World Chechen Congress and All-Ukrainian Vainakhs Congress took place in Odesa.

September 15: 1991. An all-Ukrainian viche (assembly) took place in Kyiv’s St. Sophia Square to support the Act on the State Independence of Ukraine.

1995. Ukraine joined the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure, and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime signed by the Council of Europe in 1990.

September 16: 1651. An uprising of Cossacks unsatisfied with the conditions of the Treaty of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began in Bila Tserkva.

1914. The first Ukrainian Sich Sharpshooters in the Austro-Hungarian Army swore allegiance to the fight for Ukraine’s liberation.