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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

May 26, 1648: Cossack forces led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeat Polish units at Korsun. May 26, 1926: Ukrainian ОmigrО leader Simon Petliura is assassinated in Paris. May 27, 1657: the Holy Roman Empire enters an alliance with the Polish Kingdom and undertakes to provide military assistance. May 27, 1703: St. Petersburg is founded in Russia. May 28, 1812: Russia and Turkey sign the Peace Treaty of Bucharest. May 28, 1957: the first republican youth festival ends in Kyiv. May 29, 1922: the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR passes a decree on protection of ornamental gardening and forest belts in Ukraine. May 29, 1964: the USSR’s largest botanical gardens open in Kyiv. May 30, 1876: the tsarist Russian government issues the Ems Ukase banning book publishing in Ukrainian. May 30, 1923: a Ukrainian Historical-Philological Society is founded in Prague. May 31: Smoke Out Day (initiated by the World Health Organization). May 31, 1924: the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a resolution protecting the Ancient Greek city of Olbia. June 1: International Children’s Day. June 1, 1967: the millionth diesel engine comes off the main conveyor line of Kharkiv’s Hammer and Sickle Works.

 

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