1651: Hetman of Ukraine, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, signs the Treaty of Bila Tserkva with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1916: Advanced medical training course for women is founded in Ekaterinoslav (currently Dnipropetrovsk Medical Academy).
1939: Moscow signs a friendship-and-frontier treaty with the Third Reich, whereby the Soviet-German frontier is along the rivers Western Buh and Narew.
1944: Troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front enter Yugoslavia.
1952: Kotliarevsky Literary Memorial Museum opens in Poltava.
1989: A plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine accepts Volodymyr Shcherbytsky’s resignation as First Secretary, CC CPU.
1994: Estonia ferry sinks in the Gulf of Finland with more than 900 passengers and crew members aboard; a total of 126 persons are rescued.
