This day in history

1638: The Cossack Council at Masliv Stan adopts the Regulations on the Registered Zaporozhian Cossack Host.

1925: The first issue of the republican newspaper Komsomolets Ukrainy (to be renamed Molod Ukrainy in 1943) comes off the presses in Kharkiv.

1939: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopts a decree setting the boundary lines of the Ukrainian SSR and the Belarusian SSR.

1941: Kyiv’s Ivan Franko Drama Theater, evacuated to Semipalatinsk, starts performing.

1963: The first stage of Ukraine’s largest worsted-cloth mill starts manufacturing in Chernihiv.

1987: Power Unit 3 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station resumes generating.

1989: In Moscow, the leaders of Bulgaria, Hungary, the GDR, Poland and the Soviet Union condemn the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968.

2004: Washington approves of the Ukrainian Supreme Court ruling annulling the results of the second round of presidential elections as fraudulent.