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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

24 March, 1998 - 00:00

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.

 

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