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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 

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

April 6, 1909:   US Arctic explorer Robert Peary leads
the first party reaching the North Pole. April 6, 1992:  
Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to prepare a multivolume documentary
edition on the victims of Communist purges in Ukraine. April 7, 1906:  
the illegal Bolshevik newspaper Soldat (Soldier) begins publication
in Sevastopol. April 7, 1989:   a memorial sign is unveiled
in Kyiv in commemoration of a feat of arms by Soviet and Polish antiaircraft
gunners during World War II. April 8, 1783:   Russian
Empress Catherine II signs a manifesto joining the Crimean peninsula to
the empire. April 8, 1959:   the first KrAZ-222 heavy-duty
dump truck comes off the assembly line at the Kremenchuk auto factory.
April 8, 1990:   The US-Ukrainian Renaissance Foundation
is founded in Kyiv. April 9, 1921:   Anton Chekhov House-Museum
is founded in Yalta. April 9, 1974:   the first Soviet
182,000 ton supertanker Krym is launched in Kerch (Crimea). April
10, 1864: 
  the first Ukrainian professional drama theater
starts functioning under the auspices of the Ruska Besida (Ruthenian Conversation)
Society. April 10, 1944:   Soviet troops take Odesa from
the Axis. April 11:   International Nazi Camp Inmates'
Liberation Day. April 11, 1857:   Tsar Alexander II signs
a decree instituting the Great State Emblem of the Russian Empire. April
11, 1919:
   Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive
Committee decrees the construction of forced labor camps. April 12:  
International Aviation and Astronautics Day.  April 12, 1785: 
The Habsburg Empire institutes a land cadaster in Galicia.

 

 

 

 

 

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