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Henry M. Robert

This week in history

7 April, 2009 - 00:00

1990: Lviv hosts a constituent assembly to establish the association State Independence of Ukraine.

1993: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the All-Ukrainian Association of Regional Historians.

April 81990: The International Renaissance Foundation is established in Ukraine.

1994: The National Bank of Ukraine holds the country’s first auction to sell Russian rubles on the basis of the Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange.

April 9 1917: During the First Congress of Cooperative Unions of Ukraine the Central All-Ukrainian Cooperative Union is founded.

1921: The Anton Chekhov House Museum opens in Yalta.

April 10 1944: In the course of Operation Odesa the troops of the 3rd Ukrainian Front liberate Odesa.

1996: The system of wholesale purchases and sales of electricity is introduced in Ukraine.

April 11 1944: Soviet troops liberate Kerch during Operation Crimea.

1995: The Board of Directors of the World Bank issues a decision to provide Ukraine with 114 million dollars’ worth of soft loans for the technical reconstruction of the electric power industry.

April 12 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to orbit the Earth.

1995: During a meeting of the European Community, European Commission, and the G-7, President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine announces his country’s final decision to shut down the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station by 2000.

April 13 1921: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsVK) and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR (Radnarkom) resolve to establish Committees of Poor Peasants.

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