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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 

12 May, 1999 - 00:00

May 12, 1944: Soviet forces clear the rest of the Crimea of German
forces.

May 12, 1954: Ukraine joins UNESCO and ILO.

May 13, 1865: Ukraine's Novorossiysk University (its third) opens
based on the Richelieu Lycee.

May 13, 1990: the first Polish-Ukrainian congress convenes in
Kyiv.

May 14, 1630: Metropolitan Iov Boretsky petitions the Moscow
tsar to take the Zaporizhian Cossacks under his hand.

May 14, 1988: Soviet troops start being withdrawn from Afghanistan.

May 15: International Family Day.

May 15, 1848: Vienna abolishes serfdom in Eastern Galicia [Halychyna].

May 15, 1848: Ukraine's first Ukrainian language newspaper Zoria
Halytska [Galician Star] begins publication in Lviv.

May 16: International AIDS Memorial Day.

May 16, 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack host defeats Stanislaw
Potocki's Polish army.

May 16, 1863: Odesa-Baltia 257-mile-long section of the Odesa
Railroad project begins construction. May 17: International Telecommunications
Day.

May 17, 1924: Siyach Ukrainian Publishers are founded in Prague
to specialize in reference and textbooks.

May 17, 1936: the anti-Nazi convention of cultural figures takes
place in Lviv.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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