April 18: 1961. A demonstration of the faithful took place in Kyiv in protest to the closure of St. Andrew’s Church.
1996. Ukraine and Great Britain signed an agreement on mutual assistance in illegal drug-trafficking control.
April 19: 1917. The All-Ukrainian National Congress opened in Kyiv.
1967. The Dnipropetrovsk Agricultural Machinery Plant produced its first batch of sugar beet harvesters.
April 20: 1938. The Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars and the Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Ukraine passed a resolution on the compulsory teaching of the Russian language in Ukraine’s non-Russian middle schools.
1994. The first issue of the Ecological Bulletin for the 30 kilometer Exclusion Zone around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant was published.
April 21: 1775. Empress Catherine II signed a law making serfdom general in Ukraine.
1920. A political and military convention was signed in Warsaw between the governments of the UNR and Poland, whereby the former recognized the right of Poland to Eastern Galicia, Kholmshchyna, Podillia, and Volyn.
April 22: 1861. By governmental decree, the Black Sea Cossack Army was renamed the Kuban Cossack Army. 1922. The Ukrainian Economic Academy was founded in Podebrady, Czechoslovakia.
April 23: 1185. Prince Ihor, son of Sviatoslav, launched his expedition against the Polovetsians, described in The Lay of Ihor’s Host .
1959. The Ukrainian Union of Journalists was founded at the Ukrainian SSR first congress of journalists.
April 24: 1735. A Tsarist decree juridically confirmed the property-based inequality among the Hetman-controlled Cossacks by dividing them into those subject to elected and pidpomichnyky (underlings).
1949. The Shevchenko State Literary and Art Museum opened in Kyiv.
