This day in history

1920: Red Army units finally defeat Wrangel’s army in the Crimea, liquidating the South Front.

1954: Ivan Karpynets dies: Ukrainian historian, museologist, member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and founder of the Society’s War Memorials Museum.

1970: Lunokhod 1, the first Soviet-developed roving remote-controlled robot, lands on the Moon.

1993: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in Ukraine.

2004: The Independent carries noted Ukrainian-British journalist Askold Krushelnycky’s sensational feature on Ukraine’s militia [police] being ordered to help rig the presidential elections.

2004: Students of a number of central and regional universities go on strike that spreads across Ukraine, demanding an end to the persecution of dissenters in the aftermath of the first round of the presidential elections.