Sept. 11 1943: The Veriovka State Folk Choir is founded.
1996: The first issue of the national Ukrainian daily newspaper Den’ comes off the presses.
Sept. 12 1996: Ukraine and the European Union sign an indicative program for 1996-99, entitling Ukraine to receive about 700 million dollars’ worth of aid.
1996: The Aeronautics Training center opens in Dnipropetrovsk.
Sept. 13 1848: Lviv University launches the Chair of Ukrainian Language, under the able guidance of Yakiv Holovatsky.
1951: The Peace Committee is founded during the First Ukrainian Republican Conference of Peace Advocates in Kyiv.
Sept. 14 1995: The official ceremony to unveil the Individual Ukraine-NATO Cooperation Program takes place in Brussels.
1996: Odesa hosts the World Chechen Congress and the All-Ukraine Convention of Vainakhs.
Sept. 15 1991: An all-Ukraine assembly takes place on St. Sophia Square in support of Ukraine’s declaration of independence.
1995: Ukraine joins the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime, ratified by the Council of Europe in 1990.
Sept. 16 1651: A Cossack uprising begins in Bila Tserkva, sparked by dissatisfaction with the terms of the treaty concluded with the Polish Republic.
1914: The first Ukrainian Sharpshooters of the Austro-Hungarian army swear allegiance to the struggle for Ukraine’s national liberation.
Sept. 17 1939: Red Army troops cross the Soviet-Polish frontier and enter the territories of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus.
1989: Chernivtsi hosts Chervona Ruta, the first Ukrainian song festival.
