This week in history

March 25, 1651: Colonel Ivan Bohun's Cossacks defeat Polish forces near Vinnytsia. March 25, 1957: the Treaty on the European Economic Community is signed in Rome. March 26, 1944: units of the first Ukrainian Front take Kamianets-Podilsky as part of the Proskuriv-Chernivtsi Soviet offensive. March 27, 1975: the Geneva Convention banning the development, production, and stockpiling of bacteriological and chemical weapons, and providing for their liquidation, is enacted. March 27, 1943: the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to set up the Taras Shevchenko Literary and Art Museum. March 27, 1993: the Kyiv Pectoral annual drama award is first presented in Kyiv. March 28, 1854: Great Britain declares war on Russia. March 28, 1947: ECOSOC establishes the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. March 29, 1864: Kvitka-Osnovianenko's play Marusia is staged for the first time in the Ukrainian language in Lviv. March 29, 1984: the first issue of the newspaper Ukrainian Voice comes off the presses in Winnipeg, Canada. March 29, 1867: the Treaty on Alaska is signed in Washington, whereby the US comes in its possession after paying $7.2 million to Russia. March 29, 1922: Les Kurbas founds the Berezil Theater (currently Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Academic Drama Theater of Kharkiv) in Kyiv. March 31, 1991: former Soviet Georgia stages a referendum on independence. March 31, 1970: the USSR's largest pipe-rolling mill begins operations at Nikopol's Metallurgical Plant in Ukraine.