March 23. World Meteorological Day. 1944. The Central
Republican Botanical Gardens opened in Kyiv under the aegis the Academy
of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. 1994. A partnership and cooperation
agreement between Ukraine and the European Union was signed in Brussels.
March 24. 1753. Capital punishment was abolished in Russia. 1935.
A monument to the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko was unveiled in
Kharkiv. March 25. 1651. The forces of Cossack Colonel Ivan Bohun
routed Polish troops near Vinnytsia. 1918. Germany and Austria-Hungary
signed a covenant on dividing the territory of Ukraine into the Austrian
and German zones of influence. March 26. Day of the Internal-Security
Forces of Ukraine. 1917. The Central Rada decided to hoist the national
flag over the building of the Pedagogical Museum where it was in session.
1989. The USSR held its first free elections. March 27. International
Theater Day. 1917. Mykhailo Hrushevsky returned from exile and headed
the Central Rada. 1943. The Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine
resolved to set up the Taras Shevchenko State Literature and Art Museum.
March 28. 1944. Soviet forces took Mykolayiv from the Nazi Germans.
March 29 1864. A Ukrainian professional theater was opened in Lviv
under the auspices of the Ruthenian Dialogue society. 1910. The
journal Ukrainsky holos (Ukrainian Voice) began to come out in Winnipeg,
Canada.






