1661: The Polish king grants Lviv’s Jesuit College the academic status of university.
1918: Soviet Russia’s People’s Secretariat adopts a decree on the formation of the Workers and Peasants’ Red Army in Ukraine.
1918: Kyiv hosts an All-Ukraine Church Council.
1943: The first issue of Ukrainske Slovo comes off the presses in Winnipeg (Canada).
1972: Rev. Vasyl Romaniuk is arrested by the KGB in Ivano-Frankivsk oblast and sentenced to seven years in the prison camps on charges of anti-Soviet propaganda.
2005: The newspapers Holos Ukrainy and Uriadovy kurier carry the results of a revote making Viktor Yushchenko Ukraine’s third president.
2005: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to hold the ceremony of inauguration of President Viktor Yushchenko in Parliament on January 23, 2005.
