1648: An uprising of Zaporozhian Cossacks triggers the Ukrainian People’s Liberation War led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the Polish nobility.
1878: An open trial (“Trial of the 193”) ends in Saint Petersburg over populists who took to the countryside to educate local peasants – one of tsarist Russia’s highest-profile political trials.
1896: Archeologist Vikentii Khvoika discovered vestiges of the Trypillia culture, the primordial source of Ukrainian culture.
1943: A marine force commanded by Major Ts. Kunikov seizes a beachhead on the Tsemes Bay’s western coast.
1945: The Crimean Conference of the leaders of the UK (Winston Churchill), the US (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), and the USSR (Joseph Stalin) opens in Yalta to discuss the world’s postwar reorganization.
2005: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine votes Yulia Tymoshenko into the office of Prime Minister of Ukraine. She thus becomes Ukraine’s first female prime minister.
