This week in history

September 4: 1928. The Council of People’s Commissars ratified a new orthography (the so-called Skrypnyk orthography).

1991. The yellow and blue banner was raised at the building of the Verkhovna Rada .

September 5: 1924. Members of the Ukrainian Military Organization in Lviv made an assassination attempt on Polish President Stanislaw Wojciechowski.

1990. The International Symposium on Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 opened in Kyiv.

September 6: 1672. Ukrainian Hetman Petro Doroshenko conquered Kyiv.

1994 . Ukraine and China signed a treaty on cooperation in navigation, mail, and e-mail services.

September 7: 1891. The first Ukrainian emigrants arrived to Canada.

1994. An attempt at a constitutional upheaval was made in Crimea. By a decision of the Parliament of Crimea a parliamentary republic was de facto implemented.

September 8: 1989. The founding meeting of the Ukrainian People’s Movement for Perestroika (Narodny Rukh) was held in Kyiv.

September 9:1913 . Petro Nesterov, a Kyiv-based military pilot, first in the world accomplished a loop-the-loop on his Newport plane.

1996. The US House of Representatives approved a decision to support Ukraine.

September 10: 1919. A treaty was signed between Entante and Austria at the Paris Peace Conference, fixing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and recognizing Romania’s sovereignty over Bukovyna and Czechoslovakia’s over Zakarpattia.

1947. The USSR Supreme Soviet instituted a medal For Reconstruction of the Donbas Coal Mines.