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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This day in history

13 October, 2011 - 00:00

1805: The Volyn Gymnasium (High School) opens in Kremenets.

1884: Greenwich Mean Time is established.

1900: Sigmund Freud’s major work The Interpretation of Dreams appears in print.

1914: Count Bobrinsky, Governor General of Galicia (Halychyna) bans the distribution of books in Ukrainian.

1944: Soviet forces make the Wehrmacht retreat from Riga, capital of Latvia.

1958: The workers of the Moskva Sortirovochnaya Depot come up with the initiative of “communist labor teams” which is, of course, supported by the CPSU and established all over the Soviet Union.

1969: WW II Soldiers and Partisans’ Glory Memorial is unveiled in Poltava.

1987: US Navy uses specially trained dolphins in the Persian Gulf, for the first time in the world.

1992: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts Leonid Kuchma as Prime Minister of Ukraine.

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