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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

21 October, 2008 - 00:00

Oct. 21 1897: The Chornomorsky Shipyard is launched in Mariupil.

1989: The founding meeting of the revived Shevchenko Scientific Society takes place in Lviv.

Oct. 22 1918: Kamianets-Podilsky Ukrainian State University opens its doors.

1995: President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine addresses the UN General Assembly session commemorating the organization’s 50th anniversary.

Oct. 23 1859: The first Sunday school opens in Kyiv.

1990: The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to abolish Article 6 of the Constitution, which sets forth the “guiding role” of the Communist Party

Oct. 24 1991: The Verkhovna Rada adopts a resolution on Ukraine’s nuclear-free status.

1994: During his visit to Canada President Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine signs a friendship and cooperation agreement between the two countries.

Oct. 25 1968: The last power unit of the Kyiv Hydropower Station goes into operation.

2001: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts the new Land Code.

Oct. 26 1939: A popular assembly convenes in Western Ukraine to declare the transfer of all power to the urban and rural working masses and the establishment of Soviet rule, etc.

1947: The largest deportation of Ukrainians (approximately 78,000 people) in the postwar period begins in the western oblasts of Ukraine.

Oct. 27 1659: In Pereiaslav Yurii Khmelnytsky and the Muscovite government sign an agreement regulating the political and legal status of Cossack Ukraine in the Muscovite state (the so-called Pereiaslav Articles).

2006: At the 10th Ukraine-EU summit in Helsinki, the foreign ministers initial an agreement aimed at simplifying visa procedures and an agreement on readmission.

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