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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 

18 May, 1999 - 00:00

May 18: International Museum Day.

May 18, 1944: Deportation of the Crimean Tatars from their homeland
begins. This is currently observed as Crimean Deportation Victims Day.

May 19, 1861: Ukraine's first Sunday school opens in Sumy.

May 19, 1922: Lenin Young Pioneers Organization is founded in
the USSR.

May 20, 1942: The Patriotic War Order, first and second class,
is instituted in the Soviet Union.

May 20, 1961: The Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers institutes
the annual Taras Shevchenko Prize for outstanding merits in literature
and the arts.

May 21, 1712: Peter I orders the Russian capital transferred
from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

May 21, 1921: The Ukrainian SSR Council of People's Commissars
adopts a resolution to liquidate illiteracy.

May 22, 1856: Tretiakov Art Gallery is founded in Moscow.

May 22, 1939: Italy and Germany sign the Pact of Steel on mutual
military assistance strengthening the Berlin-Rome Axis military bloc.

May 23, 1988: A monument to Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky is unveiled
in Kyiv.

May 23, 1919: A motion picture studio opens in Odesa.

May 24, 1649: Hetman Khmelnytsky's delegation arrives in Moscow
to negotiate concerted action against the Polish Commonwealth.

May 24, 1940: the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America is
established in Washington.

 

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