September 12: 1898. The Kyiv Polytechnic Institute was opened.
1996. The Youth Aerospace Education Center was inaugurated in Dnipropetrovsk.
September 13: 1866. Ukraine’s first railroad, from Odesa to Balta, started operating.
1921. The Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars passed a resolution on safeguarding historical and cultural artifacts of the Ancient Greek city of Olvia.
September 14: 1871. The Kharkiv Joint-Stock Land Bank, Ukraine’s first, opened.
1995. The Individual Program of Cooperation between Ukraine and NATO was officially adopted in Brussels.
September 15: 1941. The Nazis began mass arrests of the Stepan Bandera wing of OUN throughout Ukraine and elsewhere.
1991. Kyiv’s St. Sophia Square hosted the All-Ukrainian People’s Viche (Assembly) to Support the Act of Ukraine’s Political Independence.
September 16: 1651. An uprising of Cossacks dissatisfied with the conditions of a truce with Poland broke out in Bila Tserkva.
1920. Violent pacification of Ukrainians began in Galicia.
September 17: 1919. The Ukrainian People’s Republic’s (UNR) chief military commander, Simon Petliura, released an address to the united Ukraine’s population, which set out the main provisions of the UNR Directory’s program.
1939. The Red Army began its “liberation expeditions” into Western Ukraine and Western Belarus.
