This week in history

April 22: 1918. The All-Union Central Executive Committee approved the text of the solemn pledge, first unified military oath.

1922. The Ukrainian Economic Academy was founded in Podebrady, Czechoslovakia.

April 23: 1848. The Rusky sobor [Ruthenian council] newspaper began publication in Lviv.

1991. The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR approved the law On the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations.

April 24: 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR passed a decree On Transferring All Private Higher and Secondary Education Institutions to State Financing.

1949. The Taras Shevchenko State Literary and Memorial Museum was opened in Kyiv.

April 25: 1945. A UN conference began in San Francisco, approving the UN Charter. Representatives of 50 countries, including Ukraine, took part.

1994. President Leonid Kuchma issued an order On Creating the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council.

April 26: 1986. An accident took place at the Fourth Bloc of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station.

1996. President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma issued an order On Creating the Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste, and Radioecology.

April 27: 1906. The first Ukrainian political periodical in the Russian language, Ukrainsky vestnik [Ukrainian Courier], was first published in St. Petersburg.

1995. Verkhovna Rada approved independent Ukraine’s first state award, the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

April 28: 1887. The first monopoly in Ukraine, the sugar syndicate, was created at a congress of South Russia’s sugar producers.

1958. For the first time in the practice of border cooperation in the USSR a plan for culture exchange without visas was signed in Warsaw between Lviv, Drohobych, and Volyn oblasts of Ukraine and Lublin and Rzesow provinces of Poland.