January 15: 1935 . The first great show trial began of former leaders of the All-Union Communist Party (bolshevik) Grigory Zinovyev and Lev Kamenev, accused of counter-revolutionary activities.
1992. The Presidium of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the State Anthem (musical version by Mykhailo Verbytsky).
January 16: 1919. The Dyrektoriya of the Ukrainian People’s Republic declared war on Bolshevik Russia, whose Red Army was already fighting it.
1991. Pope John Paul II confirmed the Greek-Catholic and Catholic church hierarchy in Ukraine.
January 17: 1919. The Central Military and Revolutionary Committee of Donbas was created.
1921. The Ukrainian Free University was opened in Vienna and transferred to Prague the next fall.
January 18: 1919. The Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government of Ukraine approved a decree On the Separation of the Church from the State.
1944. The first serious armed conflict took place between the Ukrainian Insurgent Army and the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs’ troops.
January 19: 1906. The first issue of Shershen [Hornet], first satirical weekly magazine in the history of Ukrainian journalism, was published in Kyiv.
1992. By the initiative of the Ukrainian Republican Party and Rukh a ceremony of oath administration by reserve officers, citizens of Ukraine, was held in Kyiv.
January 20: 1661. By royal privilege, the Lviv Jesuit Collegium was granted the “status of academy and title of a university.”
1943. The first issue of Ukrayinske slovo [Ukrainian Word] newspaper was published in Winnipeg (Canada).
January 21: 1869. Ukrainian artist Rayevska-Ivanova founded the first Ukrainian painting school in Kharkiv.
1919. The unity between Carpathian Ukraine and the Ukrainian National Republic was proclaimed at a public meeting in Khust.
