June 6: Day of the Journalist of Ukraine;
1768. A people’s liberation anti-feudal uprising, referred to as Koliyivshchyna , began in the Right- Bank Ukraine against the Polish nobility’s yoke.
1914. The V. Vereshchagin Museum was founded in Mykolayiv.
June 7: 1899. A monument to A. S. Pushkin was unveiled in Kyiv thanks to donations of the teachers and students of Kyiv Pechersk Gymnasium.
1989. The world’s largest aircraft AN-225 (Mriya) piggybacking the space shuttle Buran made a flight from Kyiv to Paris for the 38th International Aerospace Show.
June 8: 1937. The 1st congress of Ukrainian architects opened in Kyiv.
1993. The all-Ukrainian miners’ strike began, which in fact led to coal production drop and the decline in this industry.
June 9: 1847. Tsar Nicholas I approved the sentence to conscript Taras Shevchenko to the army and ban him from writing and drawing.
1995. The presidents of Ukraine and Russia signed an agreement to separate the bases of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the Ukrainian Navy.
June 10: 1775. The Kyiv military hospital was founded. 1917. The Central Rada proclaimed the autonomy of Ukraine in the 1st Universal (decree).
June 11: 1900. The first steam railroad engine was put out at the Luhansk engine-building plant.
1992. The International Jewish Solomon University was opened in Kyiv.
1934. The 1st congress of Ukrainian writers, which approved the Statute of the Ukrainian Writers League, began its work in Kyiv.
1943. Guerilla units under the command of Sydor Kovpak began their raid through the Carpathians.
