September 1: Day of Knowledge. September 1, 1898: The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute receives its first students. September 1, 1919: Ukrainian National Republic troops enter Kyiv. September 1, 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland beginning World War II. September 2, 1913: the First All-Russian Olympiad begins in Kyiv. September 2, 1943: Sumy is cleared of the Wehrmacht by Soviet troops. September 2, 1945: World War II ends with Japan signing an Act of Unconditional Surrender. September 3, 1709: Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa dies. September 3, 1973: The Lesia Ukrainka monument is unveiled in Kyiv. September 3, 1993: Russian and Ukrainian Presidents, Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk, sign a protocol On the Regulation of Problems Pertaining to the Black Sea Fleet in Massandra (Crimea). September 4, 1965: A rally protesting arrests of Ukrainian intellectuals takes place in front of the Ukraine movie theater in Kyiv. September 4, 1985: Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus dies in a Soviet concentration camp. September 4, 1991: The golden-blue Ukrainian national flag is unfurled over the Ukrainian Supreme Council (Verkhovna Rada) building. September 5, 1918: Volodymyr Vynnychenko is elected Chairman of the Ukrainian National Union. September 5, 1967: The USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium decrees to cancel the 1944 edict charging the Crimean Tatars of collaboration with the Nazis (whereby the Tatar populace was deported in a matter of nights, on Stalin's orders.)






