October 8: 1886. The Kharkiv Public Library received its first readers.
1938. The first government of autonomous Transcarpathia, which on December 30, 1938 became Carpato-Ukraine, was formed in Uzhhorod.
October 9: 1928. The Greek Catholic Theological Academy was founded in Lviv.
1944. The people’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR issued an order On Liquidating the OUN Bands in Western Ukraine.
October 10: 1932. The first nuclear reaction on splitting lithium nucleus was conducted at the Kharkiv Physics and Technical Institute.
1973. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine passed a secret resolution envisioning a series of repressive actions against unregistered religious sects. October 11: 1653. The Assembly of the Land passed a decision on taking the Zaporozhzhian Army under the protectorate of the Muscovite tsar.
1921. The First All-Ukrainian Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church started its work in Kyiv.
October 12: 1920. Russian and Ukrainian SSRs, on the one hand, and Poland on the other signed an agreement on an armistice and preliminary peace conditions in Riga.
1960. Nilita Khrushchev pounded his shoe at the tribune during his speech at the UN General Assembly.
October 13: 1914. Galicia’s Governor General Count Bobrynsky issued an order banning the circulation of Ukrainian books.
1992. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine confirmed Leonid Kuchma’s appointment as Prime Minister of Ukraine.
October 14. The Day of Ukrainian Cossacks.
1919. The Dyrektoriya, government, and army swore allegiance to the UNR in Kamyanets-Podilsky.
1942. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was created.
