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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 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.)

 

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