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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

7 April, 1998 - 00:00

April 8, 1959: the first KrAZ-222 dump truck rolls down the conveyer line at the Kremenchuk Auto Factory. April 8, 1990: the US-Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation is set up in Kyiv. April 9, 1921: Nasha Pravda (Our Truth) newspaper, central organ of the Communist Party of Eastern Galicia [Halychyna], started publication in Vienna. April 9, 1991: Parliament of former Soviet Georgia adopts the Act of Restoration of the Independence of Georgia. April 10, 1883: kitchen matches appear in Europe. April 10, 1864: the first Ukrainian professional drama company opens in Lviv under the auspices of the Ruska Beseda Society (Ruthenian Conversation). April 11: International Nazi Camp Inmates Liberation Day. April 12, 1857: Emperor Alexander II decrees the institution of the Great National Emblem of the Russian Empire. April 12: International Aviation and Astronautics Day. April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin on board spacecraft Vostok is the first man to orbit the Earth. April 13, 1941: USSR and Japan sign a nonintervention pact. April 13, 1945: Soviet troops enter Vienna, capital of Austria (WW II). April 14, 1768: Haidamaky rebellion led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta breaks out in Ukraine. April 14, 1944: Soviet forces of the First Ukrainian Front take Ternopil in the Proskuriv (now Khmelnytsky)-Chernivtsi offensive.

 

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