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Henry M. Robert

This week in history

15 July, 2008 - 00:00

July 15 1920: The Kyiv Higher Institute of Public Education is founded. Today it is known as Drahomanov National Pedagogical University.

1989: Miners in the Donbas and western Ukraine go on strike.

July 16 1917: The Central Rada adopts the Statute of the Supreme Political Administration of Ukraine, vesting parliamentary and governmental powers in the Central Rada and Secretary General, respectively.

1990: The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopts the Declaration of National Sovereignty of Ukraine.

July 17 1933 : After completing the construction of the Dniprohes Hydroelectric Station and the destruction of the Dnipro rapids, a passenger steamboat makes a maiden voyage from Kyiv to Kherson.

1958 : The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR resolves to close 8 out of 40 monasteries and convents in Ukraine.

July 18 1946: Union of Ukrainian Youth (SUM) revives its work in emigration.

1968: Zaporizhstal Steelworks launches a unique hoop rolling mill.

July 19 1918 : The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is established in Canada.

1995 : The National Bank of Ukraine unveils a commemorative 200- karbovantsi coin to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Ukrainian hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

July 20 1920 : The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a resolution setting up Ukraine’s first medical research institute.

1993: The UN Security Council rules that the resolution passed by the Supreme Council of Russia in regard to Sevastopil is legally invalid.

1944: The Institute of History and Archaeology at the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR is reorganized into two separate institutes: the Institute of Ukrainian History and the Institute of Archaeology.

1992: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party and the Union of Ukrainian Youth.

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