This day in history

1864: Lviv’s drama company stages a Ukrainian-language play based on Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s story “Marusia.”

1882: The first book of the Kievskaia starina [a historically ethnographic and literal chronicle published in Kyiv, in Russian and Ukrainian, in 1882-1907] comes off the presses.

1910: The first issue of Ukrainsky holos [The Ukrainian Voice] comes off the presses in Winnipeg (Canada).

1921: Soviet Ukraine’s Radnarkom adopts a decree setting the food/revenue tax’s norms and standards.

1944: Troops of the First Ukrainian Front clear Chernivtsi of the Nazis, in the course of the Proskurov-Chernivtsi offensive.

1955: Mykola Lysenko’s opera Taras Bulba premieres at Kyiv’s Opera and Ballet Theater.

1990: The City Council of Ternopil legitimatizes the usage of Ukrainian national symbols.

1993: Kyiv hosts the first convention of Ukraine’s businessmen and entrepreneurs.