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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This week in history

6 November, 2001 - 00:00

November 6: 1943. Kyiv was liberated from Nazi German troops.

1996 . The first session of the bilateral Ukrainian-American Kuchma- Gore Commission was held.

November 7: 1940. The Congress of Ukrainian-Canadians was established.

1 951. The first television broadcast center began work in Kyiv.

November 8: 1867. A stationary opera theater, now the National Opera of Ukraine, was founded in Kyiv.

1935. The Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky Literary Memorial Museum was opened in Chernihiv.

November 9. Day of the Ukrainian Written and Spoken Language.

1977. The Ukrainian Helsinki Group made public the Manifesto of the Ukrainian Movement To Defend Human Rights.

November 10: 1919. A treaty was signed by the Entente and Austria at the Paris Peace Conference, affirming the collapse of the Austro- Hungarian Empire and acknowledging Romania’s rule over Bukovyna and Czechoslovakia’s over Transcarpathia.

1993. The leaders of the White Brotherhood religious cult, Yury Kryvonohov and Maryna Tsvyhun, who called herself “living god on Earth Maria Devi Christ” were arrested in Kyiv.

November 11: 1918. An armistice ended World War I. The commander-in-chief of the German Eastern Front issued an order to evacuate German troops from Ukraine.

1920. After five days of severe battle Red Army regiments took Perekop, clearing the way to the Crimean Peninsula.

November 12: 1708. The Moscow Orthodox Church proclaimed on anathema to Hetman Ivan Mazepa for alleged his betrayal of Tsar Peter I.

1943. The Soviet troops took Zhytomyr and after hard fighting on November 19 abandoned it.

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