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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

17 March, 1998 - 00:00

March 18, 1913:
the military organization Ukrayinski sichovi striltsi (Ukrainian Sharpshooters) is founded in Lviv.

March 18, 1965:
Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first human space walk, from the Voskhod-2 spacecraft.


March 19, 1697:

Russia dispatches a plenipotentiary diplomatic mission to Europe. Peter I is among the envoys under the name of Peter Mikhailov.


March 19, 1898:

the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III is ceremoniously opened in St. Petersburg (currently the State Russian Museum).


March 20, 1895:

the first issue of the Public Voice journal edited by Ivan Franko comes off the presses.


March 20, 1917:

Mykhailo Hrushevsky is elected Chairman of the Central Rada.


March 21, 1927:

the first Ukrainian language issue of The Literary Gazette comes off the presses in Kyiv.


March 21, 1982:

President Ronald Reagan signs a Proclamation of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group Day, America's first presidential act relating exclusively to Ukraine.


March 22, 1919:

Soviet rule is established in Transcarpathia.


March 22, 1994:

the banknote factory of the National Bank of Ukraine is opened in Kyiv.


March 23, 1944:

the Central Botanical Gardens of the Ukr. SSR Academy of Sciences opens in Kyiv.


March 24, 1935:

Taras Shevchenko statue is unveiled in Kharkiv.


March 24, 1992:

25 NATO and former Warsaw Pact countries sign the Open Skies Treaty in Helsinki.

 

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