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Kiev


1986 Dynamo Kiev wins 26th Europe Cup II

1975 Milla Jovovich, born in Kiev, Ukraine, actress, Return to Blue Lagoon, Chaplin

1975 Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II

1975 Julia Bikbova, born in Kiev, Ukraine, dance skater

1974 Andrei Medvedev, born in Kiev, Ukraine, tennis star, 1991 French Open junior

1973 Victoria Nika Zdrok, born in Kiev, Ukraine, playmate October, 1994

1972 Alexei Zhitnik, born in Kiev, Ukraine, NHL defenseman for the Buffalo Sabres

1972 Olga Chernyak, born in Kiev, Ukraine, U.S. fencer-foil 1996 Olympics

1971 Natalia Medvedeva, born in Kiev, Ukraine, tennis star, 1993 Prague Essen

1971 Oleg Ladik, born in Kiev, Ukraine, Canadian 100 kg freestyle wrestler 1996 Olympics

1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev

1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine

1941 Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev

1941 Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev

1941 German army conquerors Kiev

1941 German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine

1920 Polish troops occupy Kiev

1919 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev

1914 Jack Delano, born in Kiev, Ukraine, attended Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, photographer for the Farm Security Administration, composer for Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra

1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)

1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)

1912 Igor Markevitch, born in Kiev, Ukraine, conductor, Le Paradis Perdu

1905 Serge Lifar, born in Kiev, dancer, choreographer, Paris Opera Ballet

1905 Grigori Kozintsev, born in Kiev, Ukraine, director, Hamlet, King Lear

1904 Vladimir Horowitz, born in Kiev, Ukraine, pianist, Carmen

1900 Alexander Mosolov, Kiev Russia, composer, Zavod,

1898 Jews are expelled from Kiev, Russia

1898 Golda Meir, Meyerson, Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74

1891 Ilya G Ehrenburg, born in Kiev, Ukraine, writer, Fall of Paris, The Thaw

1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, born in Kiev, Ukraine, ballet dancer, 3/12 NS

1886 Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor, Seattle Symph

1881 Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine

1880 Rosina Lhevinne, born in Kiev, Ukraine, pianist and professor, Juiliard Graduate School

1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet, painter and professor of Kiev

1794 Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev

1482 Krim-Tataren plunders Kiev

1448 Bishop Jona of Moscow chosen as metropolitan of Kiev/Intoxication

1240 Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev

1054 Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies


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