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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 February, 1998 - 00:00

February 18, 1966: the first edition of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
comes off the press.

1977: Simferopol University opens.

February 19, 1938: the world's first Soviet polar station, North Pole -1, completes its mission.

1954: The Crimean Oblast of the RSFSR is transferred to Ukraine.

1992: The Trident (tryzub) adopted as Ukraine's Small National Emblem.

February 21, 1613: Mikhail, the first of the Romanov dynasty, ascends to the
Russian throne.

February 22: proclaimed International Crime Victim Support Day 1724:
Russia and Sweden sign a mutual assistance treaty.

February 23, 1863: two prominent
authors, Ivan Turgenev and Gustave Flaubert, meet for the first time at a literary
dejeneur in Paris.

1947: the Statute of the International Organization for
Standardization is enacted.

February 24: proclaimed Independence Day in Estonia,
a national holiday.

1574: Ivan Feodorov produces The Apostle, Ukraine's first printed
book (Lviv).

 

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