This day in history

1859: Ukraine’s first Sunday school starts functioning in Kyiv.

1864: Date of birth of Pavlo Hrabovsky, Ukrainian lyricist, essayist, translator, and prominent intellectual.

1921: An All-Ukrainian Church Council takes place in Kyiv to form the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church headed by Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky.

1922: Soviet Russia’s Sovnarkom adopts a decree instituting a new monetary unit, chervonets.

1931: The Soviet Union bans all private business transactions.

1941: The Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine adopts a decree forming the Republican Committee for Aid to Ailing and Wounded Red Army Officers and Men.

1942: The State Defense Committee of the USSR adopts a decree on the development of the partisan movement in Ukraine.

1995: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts the Cabinet’s Action Plan.