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This day in history

09 February, 00:00

1648: Bohdan Khmelnytsky is elected as Hetman of Ukraine.

1667: Muscovy and the Polish Kingdom (Rzeczpospolita) make the Truce of Andrusovo, whereby Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria recognize Ukraine as an independent state.

1929: The first Week of Literature begins in Moscow.

1942: Nazi authorities arrest Olena Teliha in Kyiv, along with other Ukrainian intellectuals, mostly OUN-Melnyk activists.

1943: The Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) – VKP(b) – resolves to produce a four-million book stock for the public libraries devastated by the Nazi occupier.

1993: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Ukrainian Workingmen’s Front.

1993: The official visit of President Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine to Great Britain begins.

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