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Historical Events
Events 1 - 64 of 64
4000-06-01 BC - Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka, central Ukraine (hypothesis only)
1648-06-24 - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1651-06-28 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians starts.
1653-10-01 - Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1659-06-29 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.
1673-11-11 - Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
1727-05-07 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1881-05-05 - Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
1881-11-19 - A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1913-08-20 - Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1915-01-17 - Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
1917-11-20 - Ukrainian Republic declared
1918-01-22 - Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
1918-02-22 - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1918-03-09 - Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1919-08-10 - Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1919-08-31 - Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group
1920-01-31 - 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (NYC) begins publication
1920-04-24 - Polish troops attack Ukraine
1920-04-27 - Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
1922-12-30 - Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
1926-05-25 - Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the Paris-based government-in-exile of Ukrainian People's Republic.
1939-03-16 - Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1941-06-25 - Germans invade Dubno Poland, giving permission to Ukrainians to do whatever they want to 12,000 Jews living there
1941-06-30 - Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1941-06-30 - World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.
1941-07-21 - 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
1941-07-27 - German army enters Ukraine
1941-09-16 - German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941-09-30 - 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1941-10-03 - All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
1941-10-25 - 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa Ukraine
1941-11-06 - Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941-12-03 - Hitler views Poltava Ukraine
1942-01-28 - General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
1942-06-30 - Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
1942-07-03 - Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine
1942-07-13 - 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis
1945-06-29 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1979-03-28 - Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine," premieres
1979-08-17 - 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1990-07-16 - Ukraine declares independence
1991-08-24 - Ukraine declares independence from USSR
1991-12-01 - Ukrainian people vote for independence
1991-12-08 - Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1993-05-20 - Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
1993-09-09 - Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns
1993-09-21 - Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
1993-11-24 - End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood
1994-01-10 - Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1994-07-19 - Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1994-09-24 - Parliamentary election in Ukraine
1995-03-01 - Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1996-06-28 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.
2000-11-28 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
264th Pope John Paul II
2001-06-27 - Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
2001-10-04 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2002-07-27 - Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 and injuring more than 100 others, the largest air show disaster in history.
2004-05-16 - The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
2004-11-21 - The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
2004-11-22 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
2005-12-28 - A U.S. immigration judge orders John Demjanjuk deported to Ukraine for crimes against humanity committed during World War II.
2006-10-28 - Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kiev, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s - early 1940s.
2012-04-27 - Four explosions in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, kill 27 people
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 127
1151-04-03 - Igor Svyatoslavich, Ukrainian prince (d. 1202)
1672-10-11 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (d. 1742)
1722-11-22 - Hryhorii Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
1772-04-04 - Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810)
1801-09-24 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
1809-03-31 - Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist (Dead Souls, The Inspector-General)
1814-02-25 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian national poet/painter (3/9 NS) [OS]
1814-03-09 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet/painter/prof of Kiev [NS]
1866-06-29 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1934)
1872-11-09 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (d. 1941)
1873-05-03 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian general (d. 1945)
1878-02-23 - Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian painter and art theorist (d. 1935)
1878-12-23 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (d. 1972)
1879-05-05 - Symon Petlyura, leader Ukraine (pogroms)
1879-05-10 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1926)
1879-05-17 - Simon Petlyura, Ukrainian independence fighter (d. 1926)
1879-05-22 - Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (d. 1945)
1880-07-26 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian statesman (d. 1951)
1882-07-21 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (d. 1967)
1882-10-06 - Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabatmater)
1884-07-12 - Louis B. Mayer, Dymer, Ukraine, American film producer and creator of the star system (MGM)
1886-05-28 - Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
1887-05-30 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1888-10-26 - Nestor Ivanovich Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader (d. 1934)
1890-02-28 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
1890-03-12 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka) [OS=Feb 28]
1891-01-20 - Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, US violinist
1891-01-26 - Ilya G Ehrenburg, Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw)
1891-04-23 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sontsovka, Ukraine, composer (Peter and the Wolf)
1891-05-15 - David Vogel, Ukraine, author (Huwelijksleven)
1894-06-15 - Nikolai Chebotaryov, Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)
1894-11-27 - Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971)
1897-01-28 - Valentin Kataev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright (Embezzled) Died 1986
1897-10-20 - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukrainian economist (Plan, profit, bonuses)
1898-05-03 - Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
1898-11-28 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [OS]
1898-12-10 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [NS]
1899-05-10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (d. 1979)
1899-05-20 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (d. 1969)
1899-11-03 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1900-01-25 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukraine, genetist/writer (Mankind Evolving)
1901-04-30 - Simon Kuznets, Ukrainian-born economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1902-05-10 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (d. 1974)
1904-05-06 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
1904-10-01 - Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen)
1905-03-09 - Grigori Kozintsev, Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
1906-09-05 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [NS=Sept 18]
1906-09-18 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [OS=Sept 5]
1906-12-19 - Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82)
1907-06-30 - Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian politician (d. 1950)
1907-12-25 - Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-born actor (d. 1990)
1909-01-01 - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
1911-06-17 - Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukrainian author (Vokopach Stalingrada)
1911-10-07 - Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995)
1912-07-27 - Igor Markevitch, Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
1913-08-03 - Mel Tolkin, Ukrainian-born television comedy writer (d. 2007)
1915-03-20 - Sviatosiav Richter, Zhitomir Ukraine, pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
1920-04-03 - John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi and convicted war criminal (under appeal at death), (d. 2012)
1920-04-27 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
1920-09-25 - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1920-12-10 - Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
1924-02-19 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)
1929-01-23 - Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko) of Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyiv Patriarchate
1930-10-05 - Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Ukraine, cosmonaut (Vostok IV, Soyuz 14)
1934-01-10 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician
1934-12-27 - Larissa Latynina, Ukraine, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
1936-10-30 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
1938-01-28 - Leonid Zhabotynsky, Ukrainian weightlifter
1938-08-09 - Leonid Kuchma, Ukrainian politician
1940-03-04 - Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
1941-04-28 - Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
1947-09-16 - Aleksandr V Rutskoi, Ukrainian Hero of USSR/VP (1991- )
1951-01-28 - Leonid Konstantinovich Kadenyuk, Kkishkov Ukraine, astronaut (STS 87)
1952-11-05 - Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
1954-02-23 - Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine
1954-03-24 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit)
1960-03-13 - Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
1960-09-25 - Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
1960-11-27 - Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister
1963-01-22 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
1963-12-04 - Sergey Bubka, Ukraine, pole vaulter (Olympics-gold-88, 92)
1966-07-21 - Larisa Neiland, Lvov Ukraine, tennis star (1996 Essen winner)
1966-10-05 - Inessa Kravets, Ukraine, long/triple jumper (Oly-silv/gold-92, 96)
1967-08-06 - Archbishop Alexy (Bondarenko), Ukrainian-born theologian
1968-08-05 - Oleg Luzhny, Ukrainian footballer
1969-01-23 - Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1969-03-18 - Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
1969-06-25 - Alina Ivanova, Ukraine, race walker (indoor 3K world record)
1970-07-03 - Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian cyclist
1970-12-29 - Yaroslav Ihorovych Pustovyi, Kostroma Ukraine, cosmonaut
1971-06-08 - Elena Brioukhovets, Odessa Ukraine, tennis star (finalist 1990 Moscow)
1971-07-19 - Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1971-09-18 - Oleg Ladik, Kiev Ukraine, Canadian 100 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
1971-11-15 - Natalia Medvedeva, Kiev Ukraine, tennis star (1993 Prague Essen)
1972-07-30 - Olga Chernyak, Kiev Ukraine, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1972-10-10 - Alexei Zhitnik, Kiev Ukraine, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1972-10-21 - Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of international law
1973-03-03 - Victoria Nika Zdrok, Kiev Ukraine, playmate (Oct, 1994)
1973-05-24 - Ruslana, Ukrainian singer
1973-10-02 - Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian entertainer
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 2 of 2
1850-03-14 - French writer and playwright Honoré de Balzac marries Ewelina Hańska in Berdyczów, Ukraine
2005-10-02 - Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter Evhenya Tymoshenko weds "Death Valley Screamers" musician Sean Carr at 11th century Vydubychi Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 53 of 53
1621-12-30 - Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (b. 1550)
1722-09-03 - Ivan Skoropadsky, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1646)
1742-05-26 - Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack starshina, diplomat (b. 1672)
1861-03-10 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
1879-07-17 - Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1916-05-28 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
1926-05-25 - Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47
1926-06-25 - Symon Petljoera, pres Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris
1929-03-27 - Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
1934-07-25 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (b. 1889)
1934-11-26 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian and statesman (b.1866)
1935-05-15 - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
1937-03-29 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
1941-07-21 - Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet (b. 1872)
1944-03-10 - David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52
1945-04-26 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
1950-04-08 - Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies in London
1951-03-06 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
1953-03-05 - Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukrainian composer, dies at 61
1959-11-24 - Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainen writer (Commissioners), dies at 60
1966-03-05 - Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76
1967-01-15 - David Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1882)
1967-04-04 - Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76
1968-08-19 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1969-06-12 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
1971-01-01 - Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
1972-05-29 - Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-born mechanical engineer (b. 1878)
1972-12-11 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Zolushka), dies at 66
1974-12-15 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born screenwriter and film producer (b. 1902)
1975-12-18 - Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist (b. 1900)
1979-11-11 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-born composer (b. 1894)
1983-03-12 - Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
1984-07-01 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1985-10-14 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)
1986-10-10 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
1987-09-03 - Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76
1989-11-05 - Vladimir Horovitz, Ukrainian/US pianist, dies at 85
1992-12-21 - Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87
1994-11-15 - Volodymyr Ivashko, Pres of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
1995-09-18 - Oleg Tverdokhleb, Ukrainian athlete (b. 1969)
1997-02-13 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920),Jessica Browne,singer and dancer
2000-09-16 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
2001-09-22 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
2002-05-13 - Valeri Lobanovsky, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
2005-01-10 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)
2005-01-24 - Vladimir Savchenko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1933)
2005-03-04 - Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
2006-12-05 - David Bronstein, Ukrainian-born chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
2007-01-17 - Yevhen Kushnaryov, Ukrainian politician (b. 1951)
2007-02-04 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2009-07-06 - Leo Mol, Ukrainian Canadian artist and sculptor (b. 1915)
2010-05-25 - Alexander Belostenny, Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959)
2012-03-10 - Mykola Plaviuk, Ukrainian president, dies at 86
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