This week in history

Sept. 8 1619: Two Ukrainian intermedes by Jakub Gawatowicz are staged for the first time in Kamianka-Strumylova.

1944: The First and the Fourth Ukrainian Front launch the Eastern Carpathian Offensive during WWII, driving the Wehrmacht out from the eastern regions of Ukraine.

Sept. 9 1913: The Kyiv military pilot Petr Nesterov flies the world’s first loop (later known as Nesterov’s Loop), an aerobatic figure.

1961: The Ukrainian Ice Ballet Ensemble premieres in Kyiv.

Sept. 10 1919: A treaty is signed between the Central Powers and Austria at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, affirming the dissolution of Austro-Hungary and acknowledging Romania’s title to Bukovyna and Czechoslovakia’s to Zakarpattia.

1988: The popular Golden Duke Soviet Film Festival is launched in Odesa.

Sept. 11 1943: The Veriovka State Ukrainian Folk Choir is founded.

1996: The first issue of the all-Ukrainian newspaper Den‘ comes off the presses.

Sept. 12 1996: Ukraine and the European Union sign the 1996-1999 Indicative Program envisaging nearly 700 million dollars’ worth of aid to Ukraine.

1996: The Aeronautics and Space Educational Center opens in Dnipropetrovsk.

Sept. 13 1848: A department of Ukrainian language is launched at Lviv University, headed by Yakiv Holovatsky.

1951: The 1st Ukrainian Republican Peace Supporters’ Conference, during which the Peace Committee is founded, begins its work.

Sept. 14 1995: The ceremony to approve the Individual Ukraine-NATO Cooperation Program takes place in Brussels.

1996: Odesa hosts the World Chechen Congress and the All-Ukrainian Vainakh Congress.