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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This day in history

21 October, 2010 - 00:00

1665: Muscovy and Left-Bank Ukraine’s starshyna Cossack nobility, led by Hetman Ivan Briukhovetsky, sign the Moscow Articles.

1933: Hitler withdraws Nazi Germany from the League of Nations.

1943: The Minsk ghetto is liquidated by the Nazis. Most of the surviving inhabitants are sent off to die in the Sobibor and Maly Trostianets extermination camps.

1945: Women allowed to vote in France for the first time.

1968: Tashkent [capital city of Soviet Uzbekistan] hosts the first Asian, African, and Latin American film festival.

1987: A plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC CPSU) condemns Boris Yeltsin’s presentation, thus adding to his popularity.

1989: The Shevchenko Scientific Society resumes in Lviv.

1994: Heads of CIS states sign a comprehensive guidelines development memorandum.

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