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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This week in history

9 September, 2003 - 00:00

September 9: 1913. Kyiv military pilot Petro Nesterov performed first loop-the-loop in history.

1996. The US House of Representatives passed a resolution to support Ukraine.

September 10: 1919. At the Paris peace conference between Entente and Austria a treaty was signed recognizing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Romania’s right to Bukovyna, and Czechoslovakia’s to Transcarpathia.

1955. A new bridge across the Dnipro was put into operation in Dnipropetrovsk.

September 11: 1943. The Hryhory Veriovka State Meritorious Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir was founded.

1993. A memorial sign to the victims of the 1932-1933 Manmade Famine was unveiled in Kyiv.

September 12: 1995. Ukraine and Israel signed a memorandum On Liberalizing Trade.

1996. The Youth Aerospace Education Center was inaugurated in Dnipropetrovsk.

September 13: 1848. A Ukrainian Language Chair was founded at Lviv University.

1911. Socialist Revolutionary Bohrov wounded Russian Prime Minister PСtr Stolypin in Kyiv, resulting in his death on September 18.

September 14: 1995. An official ceremony of approving the Individual Cooperation Plan between Ukraine and NATO took place in Brussels.

1996. The World Chechen Congress and All-Ukrainian Vainakhs Congress took place in Odesa.

September 15: 1991. An all-Ukrainian viche (assembly) took place in Kyiv’s St. Sophia Square to support the Act on the Political Independence of Ukraine.

1995. Ukraine joined the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure, and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime signed by the Council of Europe in 1990.

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