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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

July 21, 1941: Soviet troops retreat from Vinnytsia. July 21, 1956: the Ukrainian State Circus opens in Kyiv. July 22, 1959: the AN-10 airplane makes its first Moscow-Simferopol passenger flight. July 22, 1970: the USSR Council of Ministers resolves to open the Ternopil Financial-Economic Institute. July 23, AD-971: Kyivan Prince Sviatoslav and Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimisces sign a peace treaty. July 23, 1943: Soviet troops take Kharkiv from the Germans. July 24, 1917: the First All-Ukraine Workers' Congress opens in Kyiv. July 24, 1991: Verkhovna Rada adopts the Act of Independence. July 25, 1946: the bikini is first demonstrated at a fashion show in Paris. July 25, 1983: 4,451 km. Urengoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod transcontinental gas pipeline completed. July 26, 1648: Ukrainian rebels led by Maksym Kryvonis defeat Wisniowiecki’s Polish forces at Starokostiantyniv. July 26, 1996: ICBM disposal station opens at Dnipropetrovsk. July 27: 1649: Bohdan Khmelnytsky's troops defeat the Poles at Zbarazh. July 27, 1834: St. Volodymyr University is founded in Kyiv.

 

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