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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

21 September, 1999 - 00:00

September 21. 1648. The battle between Bohdan Khmelnytsky's peasant and Cossack troops and the Polish army began near the village of Pyliavka.

1993. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine relieved Leonid Kuchma at his request of his duties as Prime Minister of Ukraine.

September 22. 1784. Russians founded their first permanent settlement in Alaska.

1935. A botanical garden was set up in Kyiv, now the Central Botanical Garden of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.

September 23. 1943. The troops of the Steppe and Voronezh Fronts took Poltava from the Germans.

1989. The first issue of Slovo , then the monthly newspaper of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society, appeared.

September 24. 1992. The Kyiv-Mohyla Academy University reopened in Kyiv after a 189 year hiatus.

1993. Ukraine declared readiness to cooperate with the European Union as an associate member on the basis of a separate agreement.

September 25. 1914. The Ukrainian Sichovi Striltsi (Sich Sharpshooters) underwent their baptism of fire with the first battle of Semeniuk's company.

1921. Member of the Ukrainian Military Organization S. Fedak made an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the Marshal of Poland Jozef Pilsudski.

September 26. 1854. The defense of Sevastopol began.

1995. Ukraine was admitted to the Council of Europe.

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