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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 week in history

5 September, 2006 - 00:00

Sept. 5 1924: Members of the Ukrainian Military Organization (UVO) make an attempt on the life of President Stanislaw Wojciechowski of Poland during his visit to Lviv.

1990: An international symposium on the scale of Ukraine’s 1932-33 Holodomor tragedy, whose artificial nature was officially denied earlier, begins in Kyiv.

Sept. 6 1672: Hetman Petro Doroshenko captures Kamianets-Podilsky.

1994: Marine trade and postal and electronic communications agreements are signed during Chinese leader Jiang Zemin’s official visit to Ukraine.

Sept. 7 1989: The founding congress of the People’s Movement of Ukraine (Rukh) is convened in Ukraine.

1994: An attempted constitutional coup takes place in the Crimea, during which the local parliament sets up a parliamentary republic.

Sept. 8 1619: The first known premiere of Yakub Havatovych’s two Ukrainian intermedes (short comic or satiric sketches performed between acts of serious plays) is held in Kamianka Strumylova.

1944: The First and Fourth Ukrainian Fronts launch the Eastern- Carpathian Offensive against the German Wehrmacht, which liberates the western oblasts of Ukraine from the Nazi occupiers.

Sept. 9 1913: Petro Nesterov, a military pilot from Kyiv, performs the world’s first loop-the-loop (later known as the Nesterov Loop).

1961: Ukrainian Ice Ballet Ensemble premieres in Kyiv.

1919: The Paris Peace Conference ends with the signing of an agreement between the Triple Entente and Austria, confirming the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognizing Romania’s right to Bukovyna and the annexation of Transcarpathia to Czechoslovakia.

1988: Odesa launches the Golden Duke All-Union Film Festival.

Sept. 11 1943: The Hryhorii Veriovka State Ukrainian Folk Choir is founded.

1996: The first issue of the national Ukrainian newspaper Dencomes off the presses.

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