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Henry M. Robert

This day in history

21 June, 2011 - 00:00

1919: The Central Executive Committee of Soviets of Ukraine adopts a decree on incorporating the Red Army of Ukraine into the Red Army of Soviet Republics.

1953: Kostiantyn Dankevych’s opera Bohdan Khmelnytsky premieres at the Taras Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theater in Kyiv.

1958: “730-500” non-stop sheet bar mill is launched at the Lenin Steelworks in Kryvy Rih.

1959: A religious rally is held in Ternopil oblast, protesting the closure, by Soviet authorities, of the Kremenets Convent.

1961: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopts resolutions establishing the WW II medal “For the Defense of Kyiv” and conferring on Kyiv the Order of Lenin.

1971: Borys Mozolevsky, a Ukrainian archaeologist, discovers a Scythian burial mound, later to become known as Tovsta Mohyla, in the vicinity of Ordzhonikidze, a city in Dnipropetrovsk oblast, where he finds a pectoral decoration eventually referred to by scholars as the find of the century.

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