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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 11, 1933: Blast Furnace #1 begins operation at the Mariupol Metallurgical Combine. August 12, 1956: the unique Continuous Rolling Mill 250 is made operational at the Kryvy Rih Metallurgical Combine. August 12, 1962: the first Ukrainian astronaut, Pavlo Popovych, is launched into outer space onboard Vostok-4. August 12, 1990: the Mound of Sorrow is dedicated in Poltava Region to commemorate victims of the 1932-33 Holodomor man-made famine. August 13, 1677: Chyhyryn's first siege by Turkish troops begins. August 13, 1914: the Russian tsarist government institutes military censorship, banning printed matter in Ukrainian. August 14, 988: Rus'-Ukraine is baptized. August 14, 1775: the Russian Tsar declares the "unlawfulness" of liquidating the Zaporizhzhia Sich Cossack encampment. August 15, 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossacks defeat the Poles in the Battle of Zboriv. August 15, 1945: a boxcar arrives from the German city of Zedenick to Kharkiv, carrying valuables stolen by the Nazis from the city museums. August 16, 1820: a gymnasium (high school) is opened in Nizhyn, sponsored by Prince Ivan Bezborodko. August 16, 1945: the USSR and Poland sign a treaty on Ukrainian-Belarus-Polish frontiers. August 17, 1245: Prince Danylo of Halych defeats Polish-Hungarian forces in the Battle of Yaroslavka. August 17, 1772: Poland undergoes its first partition, surrendering Galicia (Halychyna) to Austria and Right bank Ukraine to Russia.

 

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