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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

31 March, 1998 - 00:00

April 1, 1906: the International Convention on Protection of Birds is signed (currently this date is marked as International Birds Day). April 1, 1917: Ukrainian public and political organizations in St. Petersburg set up the Ukrainian National Council. April 2: International Children’s Book Day (marked on Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday). April 2, 1596: Sovereign Nalyvaiko’s Ukrainian rebel force attacks Polish Hetman Zolkiewski’s regular troops in Kyiv province. April 3, 1919: the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a Decree nationalizing Falz-Fein’s former estates Askania Nova and Elisabetveld, uniting the territories into a national park. April 3, 1990: the golden-blue Ukrainian National Flag is unfurled over the City Hall in Lviv. April 4, 1113: Prince Volodymer Monomakh defeats the Polovtsi at Solonitsa. April 4, 1996: Ukrainian Parliament passes the Law “On the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.” April 5, 1782: Austrian Emperor Joseph II decrees the liquidation of the peasants’ personal dependence as the first step toward the emancipation of serfs in Galicia. April 6, 1903: a Jewish pogrom breaks out on the first day of Easter in Kishinev (Moldavia). April 6, 1992: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to prepare a multi-volume scientific edition on victims of purges in Ukraine. April 7, 1989: a Memorial plaque dedicated to heroic Soviet and Polish officers and men during World War II is unveiled in Kyiv. April 7, 1990: a nonprofit charitable organization, the Ukrainian-US Renaissance Foundation, is founded in Kyiv.

 

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