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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

August 25, 1941: the Nazi Wehrmacht approaches the Dnipro after seizing Right-Bank Ukraine, with only Kyiv and Odesa unoccupied.August 25, 1958: the Society of Inventors and Rationalizers Ukrainian Republican Council is established. August 26, 1657: Ivan Vyhovsky is elected Hetman of Ukraine. August 26, 1996: Ukraine’s Military-Industrial Complex Ministry signs a cooperation agreement with Russia’s Defense Industry counterpart. August 27, 1913: the pilot Nesterov executes the deadly loop-the-loop for the first time in world aviation history in Kyiv. August 27, 1990: the First International Congress of Ukrainian Studies opens in Kyiv. August 28, 1892: the local court of Lviv hears the case of Ivan Franko and Mykhailo Pavlyk on charges of disseminating officially banned literature. August 28, 1944: the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars orders opening special orphanages for children of officers, servicemen, and partisans killed in World War II. August 29: Aviation Day. August 2, 1949: the Soviet Union carries out its first atomic bomb test. August 2, 1996: a Russian TU-154M jetliner carrying 70 Ukrainian citizens vanishes from ground control radar screens over Spitsbergen. August 30, 1921: the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars adopts the New Economic Policy earlier adopted in Moscow. August 30, 1948: Kyiv hosts a “representative” gathering of “leading experts” in Ukraine’s biology, agriculture, and medicine, “unanimously”condemning genetics as a pseudo-science. August 31: Coal Miners’ Day. August 31, 1987: Kyiv is conferred the UN title of Messenger of Peace.

 

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