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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 

10 November, 1998 - 00:00

November 10: World Youth Day November 110, 1928: the Taras
Shevchenko House-Museum opens in Kyiv. November 11, 1872: the Besarabian-Tavriya
Land Bank becomes operational in Odesa. November 11, 1918: Romanian
forces seize Chernivtsi. November 12, 1708: the Russian Orthodox
Church anathematizes Ivan Mazepa in retaliation for his turning against
Peter I. November 12, 1943: 1st Ukrainian Front troops take Zhytomyr.
November 13, 1703: Prince Aleksandr Menshikov's troops lay waste
the Ukrainian Hetman's town of Baturyn. November 13, 1918: the West
Ukrainian National Republic is proclaimed. November 14, 1918: the
Ukrainian Academy of Sciences is established in Kyiv. November 14, 1939:
Western Ukraine is "reunited" with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
November 15, 1946: the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers decrees
a  new Ukrainian grammar (one of several this century). November
15, 1988:
the Soviet space shuttle Buran is launched to orbit for the
first and last time. November 16: Radio, Television, and Telecommunication
Worker's Day. November 16, 1991: the first all-Ukraine Interethnic
Congress is held in Odesa.

 

 

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