July 23: 1996. The first stage of the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery was commissioned.
1990. Leonid Kravchuk was elected Chairman of Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR on the basis of multiple candidates.
July 24: 1918. Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky decreed universal military training and service.
1990. A national blue and yellow national flag was hoisted next to the official flag of the Ukrainian SSR outside the Kyiv City Hall.
July 25: 1963. Great Britain, the USSR, and the US signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty prohibiting nuclear tests aboveground, in outer space, and underwater.
1984. Svetlana Savitskaya (USSR) was the world’s first woman to perform a space walk.
July 26: 1995. The governments of Ukraine and Russia signed in Moscow an agreement on the main principles of establishing Ukrainian-Russian financial-industrial groups.
1996. A US government funded ICBM neutralization facility was opened in Dnipropetrovsk.
July 27: 1944. Conducting the Lviv-Sandomyr Operation, the First Ukrainian Front troops took Lviv and Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk).
1973. A monument to the eminent Russian writer Vladimir Korolenko was unveiled in Zhytomyr.
July 28: 1991. The congress of the military officers, citizens of Ukraine, instituted the Committee of Ukrainian Officers.
1993. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine and the US Defense Secretary signed in Washington a memorandum of understanding.
July 29: 1880. A picture gallery was opened in Feodosiya.
1974. The USSR formed its first special antiterrorist unit A, which became known as the Alpha group.
