April 11, 1944. In the course of the Crimean Operation Kerch was liberated from enemy.
1995. The Council of Directors of the World Bank passed a decision on allotting a $114 million preferential loan for technical reconstruction of Ukraine’s energy system.
April 12, 1961. Soviet astronaut Yury Gagarin was the first man to orbit the earth.
1995. At a meeting with representatives of the European Community, European Commission, and G7 countries, President Leonid Kuchma announced Ukraine’s final decision to close the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant by 2000.
April 13, 1921. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR approved a decision On Creating Committees of the Poor Peasants.
1940. Stage two of the Soviet deportation from Ukrainian SSR’s western oblasts began, involving 320,000 persons.
April 14, 1768. Kolyiivshchyna, the haydamaky upraisal against the Poles leaded by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Honta.
1940. The Presidium of the USSR Verkhovna Rada issued an order On Registering Acts of Civili Status in Ukraine’s western oblasts.
April 15, 1919. The Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Ukraine issued a decree On Creating the Supreme Revolutionary Court Martial at the Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Ukraine.
1994. Ukraine joined the Treaty on the CIS Economic Union as an associate member.
April 16, 1936. A mass political demonstration started in Lviv against the Polish Government.
1991. The Tenth (first independent) Congress of the Ukrainian Writers Union opened in Kyiv.
April 17, 1710. Pylyp Orlyk, author of one of Europe’s earliest constitutions, was elected Hetman of Ukraine.
1924. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee passed a decision On Fighting Child Homelessness.
