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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 14, 1789: a Paris mob storms the Bastille prison, now marked annually as Bastille Day, a French national holiday. June 14, 1927: the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR decrees the establishment of coastal nature preserves on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. July 15, 1410: Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian forces defeat the Teutonic knights in the Battle of Grunwald. July 15, 1920: an Institute of Public Education is established in Kyiv (currently the Drahomanov Ukrainian State Pedagogical University). July 16, 1990: the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopts the Declaration of the State Sovereignty of Ukraine. July 16, 1993: the President of Ukraine signs an edict establishing the Lesia Ukrainka University of Volyn, based on the Lutsk Pedagogical Institute. July 17, 1918: Russia's last Emperor Nicholas II and his family are massacred in Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks. July 17, 1933: the first passenger ship sets off from Kyiv to Kherson after completion of the Dniprelstan (now Dniprohes) hydroelectric station. July 18, 1863: Imperial Russia's Valuev Circular bans book publishing and performances in Ukrainian. July 18, 1968: a unique small-section mill starts operating at Zaporzhstal Steel Works in Zaporizhzhia. July 19: Metallurgist's Day. July 19, 1918: the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of Canada is founded. July 19, 1980: the Moscow Olympics open. July 20: International Chess Day. July 20, 1920: the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR decrees the establishment of the first medical research institute. July 20, 1993: the UN Security Council determines that the Russian Parliament's resolution concerning Sevastopol's status is legally invalid.

 

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