This day in history

1651: Colonel Ivan Bohun’s Cossack troops defeat the Poles at Vinnytsia.

1918: Germany and Austro-Hungary sign a convention dividing Ukrainian territory into zones of Austrian and German influence.

1918: A convention of “trusted men” — representatives of the Ukrainian political parties in Galicia (Halychyna) — is held in Lviv.

1920: The Fairy Tale Theater (currently: Lviv Children’s Theater) is founded in Kharkiv.

1944: Troops of the First Ukrainian Front liberate Proskuriv (currently: Khmelnytsky) in the course of the Proskuriv-Chernivtsi offensive.

1944: The Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR returns to Kyiv after evacuation at the start of Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union (1941).

1993: The Ukrainian National Central Bureau of Interpol is instituted. 1994: Ukraine and Russia sign a cultural cooperation agreement.

2004: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the bill “On the Election of People’s Deputies of Ukraine on a Proportionate Basis.”