October 30: 1708. Peter I sent a charter to the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks promising not to oppress them and inviting the Zaporozhzhian starshyna (senior officers corps) to the town of Hlukhov to elect a hetman.
1941. The defense of Sevastopol by the city garrison, Black Sea Fleet, and the Coastal Army began.
October 31: 1961. Following the decision of the CPSU XXIII Congress, Stalin’s body was removed from the Mausoleum.
1995. Verkhovna Rada passed the law On Ukraine Joining the Statute of the Council of Europe.
November 1: 1918. The Western Ukrainian People’s Republic was proclaimed.
1991. Verkhovna Rada approved the Declaration of Rights of the Nationalities of Ukraine.
November 2: 1708. A Muscovite Army leaded by Aleksandr Menshikov occupied Baturyn, the hetman’s capital, executing all its defenders and inhabitants (estimated at 28,000).
1941. The Radianska Ukrayina [Soviet Ukraine] radio station began transmitting in Moscow.
November 3: 1941. The Uspensky (Assumption) Church in Kyiv Pecherska Lavra Monastery of the Caves was blown up.
1943. The Kyiv offensive operation of the First Ukrainian Front troops began, in course of which Kyiv was taken from the Germans.
November 4: 1657. A general Cossack Rada (council) in Korsun elected Ivan Vyhovsky Hetman of Ukraine.
1990. The first Day of Memory for the Victims of the Manmade Famine of 1932-33 was marked.
November 5: 1953 . The Soviet Union’s first entirely welded bridge designed by Yevhen Paton was put in service in Kyiv.
