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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 

30 March, 1999 - 00:00

March 30 1867. The USA purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2
million (2 cents an acre). 1922. The Berezil (March) studio theater
was founded by Les Kurbas in Kyiv (now Kharkiv Shevchenko Academic Ukrainian
Drama Theater). March 31 1951. The Lviv branch of the Academy of
Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR was established. 1970. The USSR's
largest tube-rolling factory shop was commissioned in Nikopol at the Pivdennotrubny
(Southern Pipe) Steel Mill. April 1 1917. A Ukrainian National Council
was formed in Petrograd on the basis of local Ukrainian sociopolitical
organizations.1961. The Dnipropetrovsk electric-locomotive factory
put out its first product, the D-100 commercial electric locomotive.
April 2 1596.
The village of Hostry Kamin, Kyiv oblast, saw a battle
between the insurgent forces of Severyn Nalyvaiko and the troops of Polish
Hetman Zolkiewski. 1991. The Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation
between the Ukrainian SSR and the Republic of Kyrgyzstan was signed in
Bishkek. April 3 1919. The Ukrainian SSR Council of People's Commissars
passed a decree to declare Baron Pfalz-Fein's former estates Askania-Nova
and Yelizavetfeld as a people's preserve park. 1990. The Ukrainian
national flag was hoisted over the Lviv town hall. April 4 1113.
Prince Volodymyr Monomakh routed the Polovtsy (Cumans) on the Solonytsia
River. 1996. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law On the Autonomous
Republic of the Crimea. April 5 1782. Holy Roman Emperor Joseph
II abolished serfdom (including in Galicia).

 

 

 

 

 

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