May 31, 1935. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR and the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine adopt a resolution on “liquidating homeless children and those denied parental care.”
1989. Naples hosts the founding congress of the International Association of Ukrainianists (MAU).
June 1, 1922. The State Bank’s “All-Ukraine Office” embarks on its first grain loan.
1996. Ukraine delivers the last of its missiles to Russia and becomes a genuine nuclear-free country.
June 2, 1652. Combined Cossack-Tatar forces led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeat the Polish army at Batih.
1980. The All-Union Arts Festival “Kyivska vesna” (Kyiv Spring) ends in Ukraine’s capital.
June 3, 1869. The Kursk-Kharkiv-Azov railway becomes operational.
1906. The first issue of the periodical Ukrainskiy Visnyk (The Ukrainian Herald), organ of the Ukrainian parliamentary community and the State Duma, comes off the presses in St. Petersburg.
June 4, 1771. Moscow issues a special decree allowing Ukrainian Cossacks to settle in the vicinity of Azov.
1974. The Council of Ministers of the USSR resolves to establish a co-operative institute in Poltava.
1997. The Verkhovna Rada passes the bill “On the State Property Fund of Ukraine.”
June 5, 1919. The Ukrainian Galician Army (UHA) launches the Chortkiv counter-offensive. June 6. Journalist Day in Ukraine.
1768. The Right Bank witnesses the Koliyivshchyna national-liberation and antifeudal rebellion.
1944. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic resolves to establish a Ukrainian Theater Lovers’ Society.
