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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

31 July, 1999 - 00:00

August 31, 1935: Aleksei Stakhanov, a Donbas coal miner, set an output record, exceeding the shift quota 14 times.

August 31, 1986: the passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov and sinks in a sea accident at Novorossiysk, with many passengers and crew members perishing.

September 1, 1581: Yermak, leading a Cossack regiment, sets off to conquer Siberia.

September 1, 1919: Hungary and Poland sign a final truce in Lviv.

September 2, 1913: the First All- Russian Olympiad begins in Kyiv.

September 2, 1945: Japan signs an act of unconditional capitulation ending World War II.

September 3, 1953: a CPSU Central Committee Plenum elects Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee.

September 3, 1973: the monument to Lesia Ukrayinka is unveiled in Kyiv.

September 4, 1928: the Ukrainian SSR Council of People's Commissars adopts a new Ukrainian orthography (known as the Skrypnyk system, to be repressed in 1933).

September 4, 1991: the national golden-blue flag is unfurled over the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

September 5, 1924: members of the Ukrainian Military Organization stage an attempt on Polish President Stanislaw Wojciechowski in Lviv.

September 5, 1990: an international symposium dedicated to the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine opens in Kyiv.




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