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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 

15 June, 1999 - 00:00

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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