September 26: 1991. The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice registered the Party of the Democratic Rebirth of Ukraine.
1995. Ukraine joined the Council of Europe.
September 27: 1906. The first issue of Rada, the first Ukrainian-language daily newspaper in the Russian Empire, appeared in Kyiv.
1993. The President of Ukraine decreed to set up a coordinating committee to promote market reforms and overcome the economic crisis.
September 28: 1621. Ukrainian and Polish troops defeated a Turkish army near Khotyn.
1939. A Soviet-German Treaty on Friendship and Border Demarcation was signed in Moscow, whereby the Ukrainian SSR’s western border was drawn along the rivers Western Buh and Narev.
September 29: 1920. A truce was arranged between Nestor Makhno’s anarchist insurgents and the Soviet government after a lengthy struggle.
1941. The Germans began mass shootings of Jews in Kyiv’s Babyn Yar. A total 100,000 Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians were killed there.
September 30: All-Ukrainian Day of Libraries: 1614. An agreement was concluded between the Cossack senior officers and the Polish commissioners, whereby Cossack rights were restricted and registered Cossacks pledged to do active service and live only in Zaporizhzhia.
1876. The journal Kievskaya starina printed the first biography of Hryhory Skovoroda.
October 1: 1653. The Zemsky sobor (Assembly of the Land) resolved to allow the Zaporozhzhian Host to be placed under the Muscovite tsar’s protectorate.
1871. The Pavlo Halahan Collegium was opened in Kyiv.
October 2: 1920. The Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars and Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurgent Army signed an agreement on the cessation of mutual hostilities and joint actions against the White Army of General PСtr Wrangel.
1990. Ukrainian students began a hunger strike in Kyiv, demanding the resignation of Vitold Fokin as chairman of the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers, that the UkSSR refuse to sign the Union Treaty, etc.
