1654: Cossack Council held in Pereiaslav to decide whether to swear allegiance to the tsar of Muscovy.
1919: Ukraine’s interim workers and peasants’ [Kremlin-Communist-controlled] government adopts a decree on separation of the Church from the State, placing all drama and movie theaters under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education.
1942: Troops of the Soviet Southwest and South Fronts launch an offensive against the Wehrmacht, to go down in WW II history as Operation Barvinkove-Lozovets.
1944: Volyn witnesses the first serious clash between the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and NKVD troops.
1966: The Soviet Union’s largest paint factory is launched in Kotovsk (Odesa Oblast).
2003: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine pays the first official visit to the Persian Gulf countries.
