This week in history
June 15, 1907: the Second International Peace Conference opens in the Hague, involving 44 countries.
June 15, 1918: the first issue of the newspaper Kommunist comes off the presses (currently Demokratychna Ukrayina [Democratic Ukraine]).
June 16, 1934: the first congress of Ukrainian writers opens to establish the Writers Union of Ukraine.
June 16, 1963: Soviet spaceship Vostok-6 with the world's first woman astronaut Valentina Tereshkova on board is launched to orbit.
June 17: World Day of Struggle Against Desertification and Drought.
June 17, 1925: 29 countries sign the Geneva Protocol banning the use of poison gas in warfare.
June 17, 1948: a library of foreign literature opens in Lviv.
June 18, 1939: a monument to the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Kyiv.
June 18, 1993: an historical-cultural preserve called Hetmanska stolytsia [Hetman's Capital] is established at Baturyn.
June 19, 1925: the world's first worldwide research exhibit opens in Kyiv.
June 19, 1968: UN Security Council passes a resolution on guarantees for non-nuclear countries.
June 20, 1768: Ukrainian Haidamak rebels led by Zalizniak and Honta capture Uman.
June 20, 1918: the All-Ukrainian Church Council convenes in Kyiv to establish the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
June 21, 1906: Ukraine's first legal Bolshevik newspaper, Rabotnik (Worker), begins publication.
June 21, 1961: USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium institutes a medal
For the Defense of Kyiv.
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