This day in history

1654: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to negotiate the status of the Zaporozhian Host as part of Muscovy.

1842: Date of birth of Mykola Lysenko, a prominent Ukrainian composer, pianist, music teacher, choir/orchestra conductor, public figure, ethnographer, Ukrainian national music trendsetter.

1919: Soviet rule is proclaimed in Zakarpattia [a.k.a. Carpathian Ruthenia], then part of Hungary.

1976: Europe’s best U-240 isochronous cyclotron facility starts operating at Kyiv’s Nuclear Study Institute under the aegis of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

1978: The first issue of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group’s Newsletter comes off the presses [contrary to Soviet Ukrainian authorities’ strong resistance].

1995: The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopts a statement on its attitude to the Verkhovna Rada’s resolution on the Crimea, and passes a resolution in conjunction with the VR’s one.