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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 18, 1948: Ukraine signs the Danube Navigation Convention in Belgrade. August 18, 1970: Nikolai Gogol (Mykola Hohol) State Pedagogical Institute of Nizhyn is awarded the Red Banner of Labor Order, in commemoration of its sesquicentennial. August 19, 1941: Soviet forces retreat from Kherson. August 19, 1991: the GKChP State Emergency (Putsch) Committee is set up in Moscow, commencing an abortive coup by hard-line Communist diehards. August 19, 1992: the First World Ukrainian Forum is called to order. August 20, 1925: Tarasova Hill (the mound on top of which Shevchenko's remains were buried after being transferred from St. Petersburg) is proclaimed a state preserve. August 20, 1993: an international teachers' convention opens in Kyiv. August 21, 1652: Bohdan Khmelnytsky's son marries the daughter of the Moldavian ruler, thus causing a renewal of Moldavian-Ukrainian alliance. August 22, 1918: Ukrainian and Turkish diplomatic missions exchange letters confirming the ratification of the Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. August 22, 1996: National Fashion Days are held for the first time in Ukraine (Aug. 22-25). August 23, 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky's troops defeat Polish forces at Pyliavtsy. August 23, 1992: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church removes from Hetman Ivan Mazepa of the anathema ordered by Russian Tsar Peter I. August 24, 1991: the Supreme Council passes the Act of Ukrainian Independence. August 24, 1992: the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University opens in Kyiv.

 

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