July 16: 1917. The Central Rada passed the Statute for Ukraine’s Supreme Administration giving to it and its General Secretariat the rights of a parliament and government.
1990. Verkhovna Rada passed the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine.
July 17: 1958. The Council of Ministers of the USSR passed a decision to close eight out of forty active monasteries.
1995. During the official visit of President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma to Belarus the Treaty on Friendship, Neighborly Relations, and Cooperation between Ukraine and Belarus was signed.
July 18: 1944. The Battle of Brody began, in which the Halychyna Division was defeated by Soviet troops.
1996. The funeral procession for Patriarch Volodymyr Romaniuk was assaulted.
July 19: 1914. The First World War began, battles started in Eastern Halychyna, and the Ukrainian language press was banned in the Russian Empire.
1994. Leonid Kuchma became president of Ukraine.
July 20: 1920. The Presidium of the Central Executive Committee passed a decision On Creating the People’s Commissariat on Military and Navy Affairs.
1993. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR passed a decision on creating Ukraine’s first Scientific and Research Medical Institute.
July 21: 1956. The State Circus of Ukraine was opened in Kyiv.
1992. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Ukrainian Union of Youth.
July 22: 1949. The Dnipropetrovsk Aluminum Plant rebuilt after World War II produced its first aluminum.
1952. The Ukrainian AN-10 plane carried out its maiden flight from Moscow to Simferopol.
