2004 Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted
1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1994 Volodymyr Ivashko, President of Ukraine (1990-91), dies
1994 Parliamentary election in Ukraine
1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president
1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1993 Ukraine government of Kutshma resigns
1993 Ukraine premier Leonid Koetsjma, resigns
1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
1991 Russia, Belorussia and Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1991 Ukraine declares independence from U.S.S.R.
1990 Ukraine declares independence
1987 Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76
1983 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
1979 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979 Lazarus and Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood and night in Ukraine," premieres
1977 Oksana Baiul, Ukraine, figure skater 1994 Olympics gold
1975 Milla Jovovich, born in Kiev, Ukraine, actress, Return to Blue Lagoon, Chaplin
1975 Natalia Nadtochey, Miss Ukraine Universe 1997
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
1971 Elena Brioukhovets, born in Odessa, Ukraine, tennis star, finalist 1990 Moscow
1970 Yaroslav Ihorovych Pustovyi, Kostroma Ukraine, cosmonaut
1969 Alina Ivanova, born in Ukraine, race walker, indoor 3K world record
1967 Mischa Elman, Ukraine/US violinist, dies at 76
1966 Inessa Kravets, Ukraine, long/triple jumper, Oly-silv/gold-92, 96
1966 Larisa Neiland, born in Lvov, Ukraine, tennis star, 1996 Essen winner
1963 Sergey Bubka, Ukraine, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 88, 92
1954 Irina Ratushinskaya, born in Odessa, Ukraine, disident poet, Beyond the Limit
1951 Leonid Konstantinovich Kadenyuk, Kkishkov Ukraine, astronaut, STS 87
1942 5,000 Jews of Rovno Polish Ukraine, executed by nazis
1942 Hitler visits fieldmarshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine
1942 Col-gen Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine
1942 General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine
1941 Hitler views Poltava Ukraine
1941 Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 16,000 Jews massacred in Odessa, Ukraine
1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
1941 3,721 Jews are buried alive at Babi Yarravine (near Kiev) Ukraine
1941 German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941 German army enters Ukraine
1941 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine
1941 Pro-nazi group declares Ukraine independence
1937 Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54
1934 Larissa Latynina, Ukraine, gymnist, Olympics gold 1956, 60, 64
1930 Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Ukraine, cosmonaut, Vostok IV, Soyuz 14
1926 Symon Petljoera, President Ukraine (pogroms), murdered in Paris
1926 Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47
1920 Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace
1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence
1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine
1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine
1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia
1918 Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
1915 Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine
1914 Sviatosiav Richter, born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, pianist, Stalin Prize-1945
1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1912 Igor Markevitch, born in Kiev, Ukraine, conductor, Le Paradis Perdu
1906 Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R., 1964-82
1905 Grigori Kozintsev, born in Kiev, Ukraine, director, Hamlet, King Lear
1904 Vladimir Horowitz, born in Kiev, Ukraine, pianist, Carmen
1900 Theodosius Dobzhansky, born in Ukraine, genetist/writer, Mankind Evolving
1898 Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev, Ukraine, 4th Israeli Prime Minister, 1969-74
1897 Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright, Embezzled
1891 David Vogel, Ukraine, author, Huwelijksleven
1891 Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, born in Ukraine, composer, Peter and the Wolf
1891 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Sontsovka Ukraine, composer
1891 Ilya G Ehrenburg, born in Kiev, Ukraine, writer, Fall of Paris, The Thaw
1891 Mischa Elman, Talnoye Ukraine, U.S. violinist
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, born in Kiev, Ukraine, ballet dancer, 3/12 NS
1889 Vaslav F Nijinski, Ukraine/US ballet dancer, l'apres-midi d'une faune
1887 Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1886 Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor, Seattle Symph
1882 Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer, Stabatmater
1881 Anit-Jewish rioting in Kiev Ukraine
1880 Rosina Lhevinne, born in Kiev, Ukraine, pianist/prof, Juiliard Grad School
1879 Symon Petlyura, leader Ukraine, pogroms
1873 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Radi Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator
1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine, national poet, painter and professor of Kiev
1727 Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1653 Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine
1648 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
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