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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 

29 May, 1999 - 00:00

June 1:  International Child Protection Day.

June 1, 1973: the Mykola Lysenko Museum opens at his home village
of Hrynky, Poltava oblast.

June 2, 1652: Cossack-Tatar troops led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky
defeat the Poles at Batih.

June 2, 1771: Russia finally conquers the Crimea.

June 3, 1906: the Ukrainian language Ukrainsky Visnyk
journal starts being published in St. Petersburg as the organ of the Ukrainian
parliamentary club in the State Duma.

June 4, 1775: Tsarist forces destroy the Zaporizhzhian Sich,
main fortress of the Ukrainian Cossacks.

June 4, 1962: the first issue of the Soviet satirical newsreel
Fitil [Candlewick] appears on movie screens.

June 5: Earth Day.

June 5, 1771: the Russian government issues an edict allowing
Ukrainian Cossacks to settle by the Sea of Azov.

June 5, 1990: the First Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
Council takes place in Kyiv.

June 6: Ukrainian Journalists' Day.

June 6, 1223: Kyiv Rus' forces are defeated by Mongols and Tatars
on the river Kalka.

June 7, 1949:a monument to the great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin
is unveiled in Kyiv.

June 7, 1989: the world's largest plane AN-225 (Mriya) with the
orbital spacecraft Buran mounted on its fuselage flies from Kyiv to Paris
to take part in an international aerospace exhibition.

 

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