March 4, 1750: Kyrylo Rozumovsky is elected Hetman of Ukraine. March 4, 1918: The Small Council of the Ukrainian National Republic passes a law on citizenship registration. March 4, 1944: the First Ukrainian Front launches the Proskuriv (Khmelnytsky) -Chernivtsi offensive. March 5, 1953: Joseph Stalin dies. March 6, 1919: the All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets opens to adopt the first Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR. March 6, 1934: Taras Shevchenko statue is unveiled in Kyiv. March 7, 1573: Ivan Feodorov opens his printing shop in Lviv where he will print The Apostle. March 7, 1921: the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR issues a decree instituting special schools (rabfaks) to prepare workers and peasants for higher education. March 8, 1918: the Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Soviet Ukraine passes a resolution establishing republic news agencies. March 9, 1946: an uncanonical church council opens in Lviv to dissolve the Ukrainian Catholic Church. March 9, 1814: Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's national bard, is born. March 9, 1927: a Soviet-made soundtrack film projector is demonstrated at the Institute of Physics and Crystallography. March 10, 1878: a pocket version of Shevchenko's Kobzar comes off the presses in Geneva. March 10, 1919: Otaman Hryhoriyiv's then pro-Soviet division drives the Allies out of Kherson






