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.






