1856: Date of birth of Mykola Sadovsky (Tobilevych), Ukrainian actor, stage director, and writer.
1917: Ukrainian troops disarm the pro-Bolshevik units of the Kyiv garrison, later to be deported from Ukraine.
1991: President Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine places the Army and Navy on Ukrainian territory under Kyiv command.
2004: Specialists at the Rudolfinerhaus Clinic in Vienna publish a statement confirming Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko’s poisoning.
2004: EU foreign ministers support Ukraine’s territorial integrity during a summit in Brussels.
2004: The Central Election Committee of Ukraine resolves that territorial election committees’ data be wired as per voting protocols (minutes) with wet stamps to prevent tampering with computer data transfers.