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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

September 22, 1935: Botanical Gardens open in Kyiv. September 22, 1955: the USSR’s largest observatory opens near Bakhchisarai in the Crimea. September 23, 1943: Soviet forces enter Poltava pursuing the retreating Nazis. September 23, 1989: Slovo (The Word) of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society comes off the presses for the first time. September 24, 1941: the USSR accedes to the British-US Atlantic Charter proclaiming the democratic targets of the war against Nazi Germany. September 24, 1992: Kyiv-Mohyla National University opens in Kyiv. September 25, 1838: the world’s first power-driven boat, designed by Russian electrical engineer Yakobi, is tested on the Neva River. September 15, 1917: the third coalition provisional government, headed by Aleksandr Kerensky, is formed in Petrograd (then St. Petersburg). September 26, 1973: the USSR’s largest ore carrier, Zoya Kosmodemianskaya, is launched at Mykolaiv. September 26, 1995: Ukraine is admitted to the Council of Europe. September 27: International Tourism Day. September 27, 1977: the first 1 million kilowatt power unit at the Chornobyl station starts generating. September 28: Machinist’s Day. September 28, 1939: the German-Soviet friendship and frontiers treaty is signed in Moscow.

 

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