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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 

3 November, 1998 - 00:00

November 3, 1918: the Bukovynian Popular Assembly proclaims the
reunification of Northern Bukovyna and Ukraine. November 3, 1957:
the Soviet Union launches its second sputnik with Laika, the dog, aboard.
November 4: Ukrainian National Guard Day. November 4, 1929:
the Sevastopol diorama, Storming Mt. Sapun, opens. November 4, 1932:
All-Union and North Caucasus Communist committees order reopening the
Kotov affair of a district official arrested for leaving local villagers
something to eat; he would soon be shot, inaugurating a terror immediately
spreading to Ukraine. November 4, 1990: Holodomor Manmade Famine
Remembrance Day is marked in Ukraine. November 5, 1935: trolley-buses
start plying Kyiv streets. November 5, 1953: USSR's first all-welded
bridge spanning the Dnipro, designed by Academician Yevhen Paton, becomes
operational in Kyiv. November 6, 1943: Soviet troops enter Kyiv
after the Nazis retreat. November 6, 1960: Kyiv Metro starts. November
7, 1922:
Taras Shevchenko State Ukrainian Drama Theater opens in Kharkiv.
November 7, 1951: Ukraine's first TV studio begins vroad custing
in Kyiv. November 8, 1863: Kyiv branch of the Russian Musical Society
opens. November 8, 1867: a stationary opera house is set up in Kyiv
(currently Taras Shevchenko National Opera). November 9: Ukrainian
Literacy Day. November 9, 1976: Ukrainian Helsinki Group is founded
in Kyiv.

 

 

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