Jan. 20 1661: The Polish king grants Lviv’s Jesuit Collegium “the status of academy and the title of university.”
1943: The first issue of the newspaper Ukrainske slovo comes off the presses in Winnipeg.
Jan. 21 1919: A popular assembly in the town of Khust resolves to join Transcarpathia to the Ukrainian National Republic.
1934: The 12th Congress of the CP(B)U resolves to transfer Ukraine’s capital from Kharkiv to Kyiv.
Jan. 22 Day of Ukrainian Unity
1919: The Direktoria of the Ukrainian National Republic proclaims the reunification of the UNR with the Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (ZUNR) on St. Sophia Square in Kyiv.
1992: The 1st World Ukrainian Congress is held in Kyiv.
Jan. 23 1930: The CC of the CP(B)U adopts a resolution instructing local party organizations to launch a dekulakization campaign throughout the countryside.
1992: Ukraine and the United States exchange notes in Kyiv on the establishment of full scale diplomatic relations.
Jan. 241944. The 1st and the 2nd Ukrainian Fronts launch the Korsun-Shevchenkivsky offensive.
1996: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the Lithuanian Sejm sign a cooperation memorandum in Vilnius.
Jan. 25 1919: The interim workers and peasants’ government of Ukraine adopts a declaration on the necessity of joining of the Ukrainian SSR and the RSFSR on the principles of socialist federation.
1931: The all-Ukraine Decade of Illiteracy Liquidation begins.
Jan. 26 1993: The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registers the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.
1995: Ukraine’s first regional center for certificate auctions opens in Zhytomyr.
