July 10 1968: The Maksym Rylsky Literary Museum opens in Kyiv.
1994: Leonid Kuchma is elected president of Ukraine in a second round of elections.
July 11 1925: The Ukrainian National Democratic Association (UNDO) is founded in Lviv.
1960: The world’s largest non-stop molten steel dispenser goes into operation at the metallurgical works in Stalino (today: Donetsk).
July 12 1911: Kyiv witnesses the world’s first Sikorsky flight with a passenger on board.
1996: Members of the Ukrainian parliament swear an oath of loyalty under the new Constitution of Ukraine.
July 13 1935: The Politburo of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine resolves to liquidate the Ukrainian branch of the Society of Old Bolsheviks.
1945: The Council of People’s Commissars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR and the Politburo of the CP(B)U resolve to set up the Academy of Architecture of the Ukrainian SSR.
July 14 1925: The Ukrainian National Democratic Organization is founded in Lviv.
1948. Kyiv’s Politvydav (Political Publishers) releases the first volume of the fourth edition of The Collected Works of Vladimir Lenin in Ukrainian.
July 15 1920: The Higher Institute of People’s Education is established in Kyiv (today: Mykola Drahomanov National Pedagogical University)
1989: Miners’ strikes begin in the Donbas and western Ukraine.
July 16 1917: The Central Rada adopts the Supreme Administrative Statute of Ukraine empowering the Central Rada and the General Secretariat to act as parliament and government, respectively.
1990: The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopts the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine.
