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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This week in history

30 November, 1999 - 00:00

November 30: 1867. Tsarist Russia’s first electric lighthouse was commissioned in Odesa. 1996. The State Customs Service of Ukraine was set up by decree of the President Kuchma.

December 1: 1853. A Russian naval squadron commanded by Admiral Nakhimov defeated a Turkish squadron near the Cape of Sinope.

1991. An all-Ukrainian referendum confirmed Ukrainian independence and elected Leonid Kravchuk President.

December 2: 1015. Prince Yaroslav the Wise ascended the princely throne in Kyiv.

1864. Semen Hulak-Artemovsky’s opera Zaporizhzhian Cossack Beyond the Danube premiered in St. Petersburg.

December 3: 1805. Anti-French No coalition troops suffered a defeat in the battle against Napoleon’s army near Austerlitz.

1966. The remains of the Unknown Soldier were solemnly buried by the Kremlin wall in Moscow.

December 4: 1925. The first issue of the Ukrainian national newspaper Komsomolets Ukrayiny came out in Kharkiv.

1941. The evacuated Kyiv Ivan Franko Drama Theater began to work in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

December 5: 1917. The Ukrainian State Academy of Arts was opened in Kyiv.

1994. A memorandum was signed in Budapest on extending to Ukraine security guarantees by the three nuclear powers: the US, Great Britain, and Russia.

December 6: Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

1240. Batu Khan’s troops seized and sacked Kyiv after a long siege.

1991. A treaty on good-neighborly relations and cooperation was signed between Ukraine and Hungary.

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