This week in history
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May 14, 1988: Soviet troops start being withdrawn from Afghanistan.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.
Newspaper output №:
№17, (1999)Section
Day After Day
