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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 

19 January, 1999 - 00:00

January 19, 1906: the weekly Shershen (Hornet) begins publication
in Kyiv as Ukraine's first satirical revolutionary-oriented magazine. January
19, 1919:
the Red Army enters Poltava and reinstates Soviet power.
January 20, 1661: Lviv's Jesuit College is granted university status.
January 20, 1943: the first issue of the Ukrainske slovo (Ukrainian
Word) appears in Winnipeg. January 21, 1919: a Popular Assembly
at Khust resolves to join Zakarpattia to the Ukrainian National Republic.
January 21, 1934: the capital of the Ukrainian SSR is transferred
from Kharkiv to Kyiv. January 22, 1905: (Bloody Sunday) tsarist
troops fire on a peaceful workers' rally in St. Petersburg and the first
Russian Revolution begins. January 22, 1918: the Central Rada issues
its Fourth Universal (Decree) proclaiming an independent and sovereign
Ukrainian People's Republic. January 23, 1919: revolt breaks out
at Khotyn against the Romanian occupation of Besarabia. January 23,
1951:
the Nikolai Gogol Literary Museum opens at the village of Velyki
Sorochyntsi in Poltava oblast. January 24, 1861: the first Ukrainian
language issue of the monthly sociopolitical literary Osnova (Foundation)
magazine appears. January 24, 1933: the All-Union Communist Party
Central Committee condemns Ukraine for failure to meet grain quotas and
names Pavel Postyshev Ukrainian dictator.

 

 

 

 

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