This day in history

1917: The first issue of the newspaper Nova Rada with Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s editorial “The Big Wave” comes off the presses in Kyiv.

1917: Ukrainian inmates at the Freistadt POW camp in Austria address the Provisional Government in support of revolutionary reforms and Ukraine’s autonomy.

1989: A memorial commemorating the feats of the Soviet and Polish AAA men in the Battle of Kyiv during WW II is held.

1990: The constituent assembly of the Association “National Independence of Ukraine” is called to order in Lviv.

1990: The Soviet government adopts a decree on aid to the children in the Chornobyl-contaminated regions.

1993: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the All-Ukrainian Ethnographers’ Association.

1999: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the resolution “On the Election of the President of Ukraine on October 31, 1999.”