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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

October 20, 1923: the first issue of the literary magazine Barricades of the Theater comes off the presses in Kyiv.

October 20, 1924: Ukraine’s first radio station becomes operational in Kharkiv.

October 21, 1898: Black Sea Shipyard is founded in Mykolaiv.

October 21, 1923: the ANT-1 airplane, designed by A. N. Tupolev, takes off on its maiden flight.

October 22, 1918: Kamyanets State University opens in Kamyanets-Podilsk.

October 22, 1932: for the last time before the Manmade Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-1933 the Ukrainian SSR Commissariat of Agriculture and Collective Farm Center authorizes the distribution of food to collective farmers.

October 22, 1991: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Union of Officers of Ukraine.

October 23, 1859: two Sunday schools open in Kyiv.

October 23, 1990: the Supreme Council of Ukraine adopts an amendment to the Constitution nullifying Article 6 about the Communist Party’s “leading and guiding” role.

October 24: International UN Day.

October 24, 1991: the Supreme Council of Ukraine passes a resolution declaring Ukraine a nuclear-free state.

October 24, 1994: President Kuchma signs a friendship and cooperation agreement while on an official visit to Canada.

October 25, 1938: the Artists’ Union of Ukraine is established.

October 25, 1941: Soviet forces retreat from Kharkiv after pitched battles with the German Wehrmacht.

October 26, 1922: the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR passes a decree on the minting the chervonets ten-ruble gold coin.

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