1652: Cossack envoys led by Colonel Ivan Iskra leave Chyhyryn for Moscow to sign a treaty with Muscovy.
1906: Ukraine’s first revolution-oriented satirical magazine Shershen starts being published in Kyiv.
1919: Red Army units enter Poltava and restore Soviet rule.
1933: The Soviet Union establishes fixed grain delivery quotas for the collective and individual farmers.
1968: The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet adopts a decree on the procedures of naming streets, squares, and other components of populated areas after statesmen and public figures.
1992: Ukrainian reserve officers with Ukrainian citizenship ceremoniously pledge allegiance to Ukraine, on the initiative of the Ukrainian Republican Party and Rukh.
2005: The Supreme Court of Ukraine turns down Viktor Yanukovych’s request to ban the publication of the official presidential election results.
