This week in history 

July 27

1649.  Ukrainian insurgents led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated a Polish army near Zbarazh.

1834.  St. Volodymyr University (now Taras Shevchenko National University) was founded in Kyiv.

1944.  Soviet troops took Lviv from the Germans.

July 28

Day of St. Volodymyr who converted Ukraine to Christianity

1914.  World War I began as a local war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia.

1993.  Defense ministers of Ukraine and the USA signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington.

July 29

1907.  The World Scout Organization was formed.

1957.  The Charter of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) founded in 1954 came into force.

July 30

1863.  The Tsarist government banned the Ukrainian language in schools and limited the publication of Ukrainian books in the Valuyev circular.

1895.  An ethnographic museum was founded in Lviv.

July 31

1924.  The Polish government banned the Ukrainian language in the state-run institutions of Eastern Galicia.

1991.  The USSR and the USA signed a treaty on the limitation and reduction of strategic offensive armaments.

August 1 Day of the Navy Day of the Railroaders

1914.  With the declaration of war on Russia, World War I became a global war.

1975.  The Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe was signed in Helsinki.