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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 

27 April, 1999 - 00:00

April 27, 1919:   an art museum opens in Poltava.

April 27, 1974:   construction teams start being dispatched
to the Baikal-Amur railroad (BAM) project site.

April 28, 1943:   Nazi occupation authorities announce
enlistment into the Waffen SS Division Galizien (Halychyna Division)
in Lviv.

April 28, 1955:   the first construction team arrives
at Baikonur (to become major Soviet space launch site).

April 29: International Dance Day

April 29, 1918:   the Ukrainian Central Rada passes
the Constitution of the Ukrainian National Republic. Mykhailo Hrushevsky
becomes the first president of independent Ukraine (for one day) as Hetman
Pavlo Skoropadsky takes power.

April 30, 1945:   Sergeants Mikhail Yegorov and Meliton
Kantariya unfurl the Red Banner of victory over the Reichstag in Berlin.

April 30, 1990:   the Ukrainian Republican Party is
established at a convention of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union.

May 1:   International Solidarity with Workers Day.

May 1, 1919:   the first issue of the Ukrainian magazine
Mystetstvo is published.

May 1, 1937:   the Moscow-Volga Canal is built.

May 2, 1848:   the first Ukrainian political organization,
Supreme Ruthenian Council, is founded in Halychyna.

May 2, 1868:   Russian troops take Samarkand.

May 3:   International Freedom of Expression Day.

May 3, 1815:   the Polish Congress Kingdom is formed,
becoming part of the Russian Empire under a resolution of the Congress
of Vienna.

May 3, 1946:  the International Military Tribunal starts
in Tokyo after the Judgment at Nuremberg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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