This day in history

1654: Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s envoys arrive in Moscow to negotiate the status of the Zaporozhian Sich as a member of Muscovy.

1669: In Korsun, Cossack starshyna nobility, jointly with Petro Doroshenko, determine to approve Turkey’s protectorate in Right-Bank Ukraine.

1918: The Small Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic adopts the tryzub [trident] with olive wreath as the national emblem, originally the symbol of St. Volodymyr’s authority.

1919: Soviet power is enforced in Transcarpathian Ukraine, originally part of Hungary.

1976: Europe’s largest U-240 isochronous cyclotron is launched at Kyiv’s Institute for Nuclear Studies under the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

1994: The Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine opens in Kyiv.

1995: The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopts a statement making clear Russia’s attitude to the Verkhovna Rada’s resolutions relating to the Crimea.