Sept. 9 1913: The Kyiv military pilot Petr Nesterov flies the world’s first loop (later known as Nesterov’s Loop), an aerobatic figure.
1961: The Ukrainian Ice Ballet Ensemble premieres in Kyiv.
Sept. 10 1919: A treaty is signed between the Central Powers and Austria at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, affirming the dissolution of Austro-Hungary and acknowledging Romania’s title to Bukovyna and Czechoslovakia’s to Zakarpattia.
1988: The popular Golden Duke Soviet Film Festival is launched in Odesa.
Sept. 11 1943: The Veriovka State Ukrainian Folk Choir is founded.
1996: The first issue of Ukraine’s daily newspaper Den comes off the presses.
Sept. 12 1996: Ukraine and the European Union sign the 1996-1999 Indicative Program envisaging nearly 700 million dollars’ worth of aid to Ukraine.
1996: The Aeronautics and Space Educational Center opens in Dnipropetrovsk.
Sept. 13 1848: A department of Ukrainian language is launched at Lviv University, headed by Yakiv Holovatsky.
1951: The 1st Ukrainian Republican Peace Supporters’ Conference, during which the Peace Committee is founded, begins its work.
Sept. 14 1995: The ceremony to approve the Individual Ukraine-NATO Cooperation Program takes place in Brussels.
1996: Odesa hosts the World Chechen Congress and the All-Ukrainian Vainakh Congress.
Sept. 15 1991: An all-Ukrainian rally is held on St. Sophia Square in Kyiv in support of the Declaration of Ukraine’s state independence.
1995: Ukraine signs the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime adopted by the Council of Europe in 1990.
