1649: Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky of Ukraine and John II Casimir of Poland sign the Treaty of Zboriv recognizing 40,000 Registered Cossacks and reducing Cossack Ukraine to the territories of Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Bratslav voivodeships.
1911: Kyiv witnesses the Russian Empire’s first flight of a manned airplane.
1933: An air club is founded in Yaroslavl [Russia. – Ed.] to produce sixteen pilots awarded the title “Hero of the Soviet Union,” including the world’s first female astronaut, Valentina Tereshkova.
1948: The Ukrainian SSR signs the Convention Regarding the Regime of Navigation on the Danube in Belgrade.
1970: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopts a decree conferring the Order of the Red Banner of Labor on Nizhyn Nikolai Gogol Pedagogical Institute [now Nizhyn Gogol State University. – Ed.] in conjunction with its 150th anniversary.
1984: Moscow hosts the Friendship Games as an alternative to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. [The 1984 Olympics were boycotted by the Eastern bloc. – Ed.]
