1920: Soviet Ukraine’s Cheka arrests the participants in the All-Ukraine Conference Menshevik Party Conference on charges of counterrevolutionary [anti-Soviet] activities.
1930: The Institute of Agricultural Construction is founded in Poltava.
1941: The Supreme Command of the Romanian Army adopts a resolve to establish Tiraspol-based occupation authorities in the Wehrmacht-occupied parts of Soviet Ukrainian territory between the Dniester and Buh rivers (historically known as Transnistria [not to be mistaken for the current hotbed of social and political tensions]).
1969: The first T-25 wheel tractor comes off the conveyor line of Kharkiv’s Tractor Works.
1991: Moscow witnesses an abortive coup d’etat, along with the “State Committee for the State of Emergency” (generally known as the August Putsch).
1991: Leonid Kravchuk, future President of Ukraine, formally quits the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
