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Henry M. Robert

This day in history

21 April, 2011 - 00:00

1597: Severyn Nalyvaiko, leader of the 1594-96 peasant and Cossack rebellion against the Polish and Ukrainian feudal lords in Ukraine and Belarus, is executed in Warsaw.

1775: Catherine II of Russia legalizes serfdom in Ukraine.

1920: The governments of the Ukrainian National Republic and Poland sign a political and a military convention whereby Poland retains Eastern Halychyna, Chelm region, Podillia, and Volyn.

1937: The Central Executive Committee of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree on the National Flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

1947: Polish authorities begin deporting the Ukrainian populace of Lemkivshchyna.

1979: A Ukrainian Drama and Comedy Theater opens in Kyiv (currently Kyiv Academic Drama and Comedy Theater on the Left Bank).

1990: A constituent conference convenes in Lviv and reorganizes the Ukrainian Christian Democratic Front as the Ukrainian Christian Democratic Party.

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