Skip to main content

This week in history

10 February, 00:00
February 11 1989: The founding conference of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society (later renamed Prosvita) took Place in Kyiv. February 12 1943: The Soviet Army took Krasnodar, Shakhty, Krasnoarmeiskoe and Stavropol from the Germans. 1944: The USSR Verkhovna Rada adopted a law creating the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. February 13 1942: Forced resettlement of Ukrainians as Ostarbeiters for forced labor in Germany began. During the Nazi occupations two million Ukrainians were thus resettled. 1943: The capital of Hungary, Budapest, was freed from the Germans. February 14: The world marks St. Valentine's Day, the holiday of all lovers. 1992: Verkhovna Rada passed the Fundaments of Ukrainian Legislation on Culture. February 15 1922: The first session of the World Court opened in the Hague. 1989: Soviet troops completed withdrawal from Afghanistan, where 14,000 Soviet officers and men had perished during the nine year war. February 16 1918: The Act on the Establishment of the Lithuanian Republic was adopted in Vilnius. This date is now the national holiday of the Lithuanian Republic. February 17 1863: The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.

 

Delimiter 468x90 ad place

Subscribe to the latest news:

Газета "День"
read