This day in history

1867: Alexis Verstovsky’s Askold’s Grave launches Kyiv Opera’s first season (this company is now the National Opera of Ukraine).

1909: The constituent meeting of the Kyiv Aeronautics Society is held.

1927: The Dnipropetrovsk Hydropower Station is founded, capable of generating 650,000 hp.

1927: Kharkiv hosts the first government-supported art exhibit “The Tenth Anniversary of the Great October Revolution.”

1935: Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Literary-Memorial Museum starts functioning in Chernihiv.

1941: In Nazi-occupied Poltava oblast, a partisan detachment under Ivan Kopienkin’s command ends raiding nine raions.

1943: The Soviet government institutes the most prestigious Victory Order and the Glory Orders, First, Second, and Third Class, meant for the privates.

2004: Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski says there is no stopping democratic progress in Ukraine, as evidenced by the presidential campaign.