This day in history

1903: The cultural and educational association/society Volia is established in Lviv.

1918: The Ukrainian Canadians establish the Ukrainian Labor Temple Association in Winnipeg.

1927: The first issue of the daily newspaper Vechirnii Kyiv comes off the presses.

1943: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopts a decree conferring the title “Hero of Socialist Labor” on Yevhen Paton, academician of the Academy of Science of the Ukrainian SSR, in recognition of his outstanding merits in the field of electric welding that helped step up the output of armored self-propelled armored vehicles, tanks, and metal structures.

1944: Massive public effort to rebuild Kyiv’s thoroughfare, Khreshchatyk, begins.

1967: Zaporozhets subcompact car (ZAZ 966) starts being manufactured in Zaporizhia.

1996: Regular Kyiv-London-Kyiv bus routes become available.

1997: The legal book bazaar Petrivka starts functioning in Kyiv.