October 19. 1653. The Muscovite Tsar’s embassy headed by Buturlin left for Pereyaslav to administer to the Zaporozhzhian Host the oath of loyalty to the Tsar.
1989. The founding session of the Republican Association of Ukrainian Studies took place.
October 20. 1924. Ukraine’s first radio station opened in Kharkiv.
1995. The All-Ukrainian Orthodox Council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) elected its head Metropolitan Filaret.
October 21. 1897. The Mykolayiv shipbuilding dockyard was opened.
1989. The Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society was founded in Lviv.
October 22. 1918. The Kamyanets Ukrainian State University was opened in Kamyanets-Podilsky.
1991. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered Ukraine’s Union of the Officers.
October 23. 1859. The first Ukrainian Sunday school was opened in Kyiv.
1990. Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR passed a decision On Canceling the Sixth Article of the Constitution, which had enshrined the leading role of the Communist Party.
October 24. 1991. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved a statement On the Non-Nuclear Status of Ukraine.
1994. During President Leonid Kuchma’s visit to Canada a treaty On Friendship and Cooperation between Ukraine and Canada was signed.
October 25. 1848. The Galician Ruthenian Matytsia Society was formed.
1938. The First Congress of Ukrainian Soviet Artists began, founding the Artists Union of Ukraine.
