This week in history 

January 19, 1906: the weekly Shershen (Hornet) begins publication in Kyiv as Ukraine's first satirical revolutionary-oriented magazine. January 19, 1919: the Red Army enters Poltava and reinstates Soviet power. January 20, 1661: Lviv's Jesuit College is granted university status. January 20, 1943: the first issue of the Ukrainske slovo (Ukrainian Word) appears in Winnipeg. January 21, 1919: a Popular Assembly at Khust resolves to join Zakarpattia to the Ukrainian National Republic. January 21, 1934: the capital of the Ukrainian SSR is transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv. January 22, 1905: (Bloody Sunday) tsarist troops fire on a peaceful workers' rally in St. Petersburg and the first Russian Revolution begins. January 22, 1918: the Central Rada issues its Fourth Universal (Decree) proclaiming an independent and sovereign Ukrainian People's Republic. January 23, 1919: revolt breaks out at Khotyn against the Romanian occupation of Besarabia. January 23, 1951: the Nikolai Gogol Literary Museum opens at the village of Velyki Sorochyntsi in Poltava oblast. January 24, 1861: the first Ukrainian language issue of the monthly sociopolitical literary Osnova (Foundation) magazine appears. January 24, 1933: the All-Union Communist Party Central Committee condemns Ukraine for failure to meet grain quotas and names Pavel Postyshev Ukrainian dictator.