This week in history

September 3: 1838. The Institute for Noble Girls was opened in Kyiv.

1993. President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin signed a protocol, On Regulating the Problems of the Black Sea Fleet.

September 4: 1928. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR approved a new Ukrainian orthography (the so-called Skrypnyk system), used until banned in 1933.

1991. The national yellow and blue banner was raised over the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine building.

September 5: 1906. The first mass pilgrimage of Galician Ukrainians to the Holy Land headed by Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky began.

1990. The International Symposium on the Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 opened in Kyiv.

September 6: 1946. The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ratified a decision on organizing the State Institute for Crafts and Arts in Lviv.

1994. Jiang Zeming, head of the Chinese People’s Republic, began his visit to Ukraine, in course of which Ukrainian-Chinese declarations were signed.

September 7: 1891. The first Ukrainian immigrants arrived in Canada.

1990. The Golden Voices First International Festival of Ukrainian Poetry began in Kyiv.

September 8. Day of the Ukrainian Cinema.

1989. The founding meeting of Narodny Rukh [People’s Movement of Ukraine for Perestroika] began in Kyiv.

September 9: 1913. Kyiv based military pilot Petro Nesterov made a loop-the-loop for the first time in the world.

1996. The US House of Representatives approved a resolution in support of Ukraine.