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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 11, 1907: the Ukrainian Scientific Society is founded in Kyiv. May 11, 1944: the USSR State Defense Committee resolves to deport the Crimean Tatars to the Far East. May 12, 1954: the Ukrainian SSR joins UNESCO and ILO. May 12, 1974: the 1st All-Union TV film festival, dedicated to the working class, is held in Donetsk. May 13, 1865: Ukraine’s third Novorossiysk University opens in Odesa, based on the Richelieu College. May 13, 1990: the first convention of Poles living in Ukraine is held in Kyiv. May 14, 1863: a local history museum opens in Chernivtsi. May 14, 1942: the experimental Soviet BI-1 jet flies on a test mission. May 15, 1848: Ukraine’s newspaper Zorya Halytska (The Star of Halychyna) starts being published in Lviv. May 15, 1896: the Luhansk locomotive plant is founded. May 16, 1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s Cossack troops defeat Stanislaw Potocki’s forces at Zhovti Vody. May 16, 1863: the first 197-mile section of the Odesa railroad, reaching as far as Balta, starts being built. May 17, 1934: the first issue of the Ukrainian newspaper Nash Klych (Our Call) comes off the presses in Argentina. May 17, 1936: an antifascist congress of Ukrainian cultural figures is held in Lviv. May 18: International Museum Day. May 18, 1917: the First All-Ukrainian Military Congress is held in Kyiv. May 19, 1861: Ukraine’s first Sunday school opens in Sumy. May 19, 1922: the Young Pioneers Organization (named for Lenin in 1924) is founded.

 

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