1640: A Church Council convenes in Kyiv and adopts the catechism “Orthodox Confession of Faith” to be used by the Orthodox Church in the Eastern Slavic lands, Moldova, and Walachia for hundreds of years.
1918: The Family and Marriage Code is adopted in the USSR, meant to “revolutionize” the family and uproot the bourgeois morals.
1929: The Komunar Works in Zaporizhia launches the first Soviet combine harvester.
1941: Soviet forces retreat from Poltava after pitched battles with the Wehrmacht.
1965: The Soviet of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a resolution on the “perpetuation” of sites related to the history of the Ukrainian Cossacks.
1996: The Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade of Ukraine adopts regulations on barcodes for domestic products.
2000: In the US, former presidents George Bush, Sr. and Mikhail Gorbachev set up an international foundation for the advancement of democracy and progress.
