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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

29 November, 2005 - 00:00

29 November 1661. Lviv University was founded, now named for Ivan Franko.

1989. The reburial of victims of Stalinist repression took place in Ivano-Frankivsk.

30 November 1921. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee passed a decision On an Amnesty for Workers and Peasants Who Served in Enemy Armies or Live Abroad.

1996. By a presidential order the Customs Service of Ukraine was established.

1 December 1990. The founding congress of the Party for Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine opened in Kyiv.

1991. The Ukrainian people confirmed the Act Proclaiming Ukraine’s Independence in a referendum, while Leonid Kravchuk was elected President of Ukraine.

2 December 1864. The first performance of Symon Hulak- Artemovsky’s opera, Zaporozhzhian Cossack Beyond the Danube took place in St. Petersburg.

1960. The biggest blast furnace in the world, the Kryvorizka-Komsomolska, was put into operation in Kryvy Rih.

3 December 1918. The Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine approved a decree On Creating the All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counter-Revolution, Sabotage, and Malfeasance - later known as the KGB.

1932. By a decision of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR trading meat and livestock was forbidden in all Ukraine’s regions evading execution of the state meat procurements plan.

4 December 1638. The Cossack Starshyna [senior officers] Council ratified the Ordinations of the Zaporozhzhian Register.

1925. The first issue of the Komsomolets Ukrayiny republican newspaper (from 1943 Molod Ukrayiny) was published in Kharkiv.

5 December 1917. The Ukrainian Academy of the Arts (now the National Academy of Pictorial Arts and Architecture) was created in Kyiv.

1994. A memorandum was signed in Budapest On Giving Ukraine Security Guarantees from the Nuclear Countries of the US, Great Britain, and Russia.

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