June 16 1934: The Union of Writers of Ukraine is founded at the I Congress of Ukrainian Writers.
1982: The 2,000,000th tractor comes off the assembly line at the Kharkiv Tractor Works.
June 17 1990: The congress of the All-Union Chornobyl Association ends in Kyiv.
1993: Ukraine and Russia sign an agreement and joint communiqu evenly dividing the Black Sea Fleet between the two countries.
June 18 1939: The Taras Shevchenko Memorial Museum and a new monument at the poet’s grave were opened in Kaniv.
1993: The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decrees to set up the “Hetman Capital” City Historical and Cultural Preserve in Baturyn.
June 19 1925: Kyiv hosts the world’s first exhibition devoted to global expanses.
1996: Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan sign a friendship and cooperation treaty.
June 20 1919: In Lviv the military delegation of the Ukrainian National Republic, led by General Serhii Delvig, signs an armistice with Poland, which establishes a demarcation line between the warring sides (the Delvig lines).
1942: The Soviet Ukrainian Partisan Movement Headquarters attached to the Military Council is reorganized into the Ukrainian Republican Partisan Movement Headquarters.
June 21 1953: Kostiantyn Dankevych’s opera Bohdan Khmelnytsky premieres at the Taras Shevchenko Opera House in Kyiv.
1971: Ukrainian archaeologist Borys Mozolevsky excavates Tovsta Mohyla, a Scythian barrow, and discovers a pectoral that was recognized by the scholarly community as “the discovery of the century.”
June 22 Day of Mourning and Commemorating War Victims in Ukraine
1942: Nazi-occupied Kyiv hosts a soccer meet (known as the Death Match) between the Luftwaffe team and Dynamo Kyiv. Dynamo wins 5:3.
