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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 7: St. John the Baptist's Day. July 7, 1940: Ivan Franko Literary Museum opens in Lviv. July 7, 1941: Nazis besiege Kyiv. Soviet forces and citizens offer heroic resistance. July 8, 1659: Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky's Cossack troops defeat the Russian army at Konotop. July 8, 1709: the Battle of Poltava begins. July 9, 1783: the Russian War Ministry orders the reorganization of Left-Bank Cossack regiments as regular Russian army units of the same caliber. July 9, 1961: Taras Shevchenko statue is unveiled in Winnipeg. July 10, 1968: Maxim Rylsky Literary Museum opens in Kyiv. July 10, 1994: Leonid Kuchma is elected President of Ukraine. July 11, 1819: military settlers of Chuhuiv revolt against serfdom. July 11, 1925: the Ukrainian National Democratic Association (Ukr. abbr. UNDO) is set up in Lviv. July 12: Fisherman Day. July 12, 1581: Ivan Feodorov prints The Gospels of Ostrog. July 12, 1941: Great Britain and the USSR sign a joint military action agreement (WW II). July 13, 1920: the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukr. SSR resolves to establish the Ukrainian Red Cross. July 13, 1935: Soviet Communist Party Politburo resolves to dissolve the Ukrainian branch of the Old Bolsheviks' Society.

 

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