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.






