This week in history
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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