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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 July, 1999 - 00:00

August 10: 1378. Russian troops commanded by Grand Prince Dmitry Ivanovich routed the troops of the Golden Horde onto the Vozha river.

1700. Russia and Turkey signed the Constantinople Peace Treaty.

August 11: 1962. Soviet space television was born: the first TV program was broadcast live from the spaceships Vostok-3v and Vostok-4.

1999. A full solar eclipse will be sighted for the last time in this century from various points of Earth.

August,12: 1956. The USSR conducted the first hydrogen bomb test at the Semipalatinsk range.

1990. The Hill of Mourning was laid in the Poltava oblast to commemorate victims of the 1932-1933 famine.

August 13: 1677. Chyhyryn began its first defense from Turkish troops.

1914. The Tsarist government imposed military censorship and banned all publications in the Ukrainian language.

August 14: 1988. Rus-Ukraine was baptized.

1930. The USSR Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars passed a resolution on compulsory universal primary education.

August 15: 1649. Ukrainian troops commanded by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated the Polish near Zborow.

1945. Kharkiv received from the German city of Zedenick a railway car-load of valuables stolen by the Nazis from Kharkiv museums.

August 16: 1812. The Smolensk battle started between Russian troops commanded by General M. Barclay-de-Tolly and Napoleon's army.

1945. The USSR and Poland concluded a treaty on the borders between Ukraine, Belarus and the Polish state.




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