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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

18 July, 2006 - 00:00

July 18 1946: Ukrainian Youth Association resumes work in immigration.

1968: Zaporizhstal launches a unique hoop rolling mill.

July 19 1918: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is founded in Canada.

1995: The National Bank of Ukraine releases the commemorative coin “Bohdan Khmelnytsky” worth 200,000 rubles to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian hetman.

July 20 1920: The Council of Peoples’ Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to set up the first medical research institute.

1993: UN Security Council decrees that Russia’s Supreme Council’s resolution concerning the status of Sevastopol is legally invalid.

July 21 1944: The Institute of history under the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR is reorganized as two institutes: the Institute of History of Ukraine and the Institute of Archaeology under the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

1992: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party and the Association of Ukrainian Youth.

July 22: 1899: Ivan Kotliarevsky’s Natalka Poltavka premieres in Ukraine.

2001: PRC leader Jiang Zemin starts his official visit to Ukraine and signs a number of bilateral agreements with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma.

July 23 1920: The first gubernia convention of komnezam [commiittes of impoverished peasants] starts in Poltava, discussing measures to enhance the komnezam network, work out an alliance between the working class and middle-class peasantry.

1990: Leonid Kravchuk is elected Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR.

July 24 1880: Kyiv hosts a major political trial over members of a united group of Narodnaya Volya and Chorny Peredel [crack revolutionary] adherents.

1990: The national gold-blue colors are for the first time raised on the flagpole, alongside the official flag of the Ukrainian SSR, in front of the Mayor’s Office on Khreshchatyk St. in Kyiv.

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