September 27, 1906. The first issue of Rada, a Ukrainian daily newspaper was published in Kyiv.
1993. The president of Ukraine issued an order On Creating a Coordination Committee to Implement Market Reforms and Combat Economic Crisis.
September 28, 1916. A medical department of the Higher Women’s Courses was opened in Katerynoslav.
1939. The treaty On Friendship and Borders between the Soviet Union and Germany was signed in Moscow, establishing the Ukrainian SSR’s western border along the rivers Western Buh and Narev.
September 29, 1920. An armistice was signed between Makhno and the Soviet government.
1941. The Nazis began the mass executions of Jews in the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv where over 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians were killed and buried.
September 30, 1876. The Kyivska starovyna [Kyiv Antiquities] magazine first published the biography of Ukrainian poet and philosopher Hryhory Skovoroda.
1992. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Association of Researchers of the Ukrainian Manmade Famine Genocide of 1932- 1933.
October 1, 1871. The Pavlo Halahan Collegium was opened in Kyiv, which in 1920 became a general education working school.
1926. The Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater, now bearing the name of Taras Shevchenko, was founded.
October 2, 1942. The Politburo of the VKP(b) Central Committee passed a decision On Developing the Partisan Movement in Ukraine.
1990. Students’ hunger strike began in Kyiv for the resignation of the head of the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR and against signing the new Union Treaty.
October 3, 1917. The All-Ukrainian Cossacks’ Congress began in Chyhyryn, ratifying this organization’s statute and electing its General Rada headed by Hetman Skoropadsky.
1973. A monument to the renowned Ukrainian poet Lesia Ukrayinka was unveiled in Kyiv.
