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2009 Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, endorses Russia's decision to turn off gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine
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, Gold Medal 1996 Olympics 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 Field Marshal Von Bocks headquarter/d into/d Ukraine 1942 Colonel General 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 1938 Leonid Kuchma, born in Chaikyne, Ukraine, statesman, politician, President of independent Ukraine 1994 - 2005 1937 Karol Szymanowski, Polish/Ukraine composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 54 1934 Larissa Latynina, Ukraine, gymnast, Gold Medals 1956, 1960, 1964 Olympics 1932 Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style 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) 1917 Els Aarne, born in Ukraine, Estonian composer, pianist, composed chamber music for violoncello and double bass, wrote two symphonies, studied with composer Heino Eller 1915 Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine 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 1914 Sviatosiav Richter, born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, pianist, Stalin Prize-1945 1913 Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine) 1912 Jura Soyfer, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, writer, political journalist, imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, wrote the Dachau song with composer Herbert Zipper 1912 Igor Markevitch, born in Kiev, Ukraine, conductor, Le Paradis Perdu 1906 Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of U.S.S.R., 1964 - 1982 1905 Boris Arapov, born in Poltava, Ukraine, composer, studied with Vladimir Shcherbachov at Leningrad Conservatory, taught at Leningrad Conservatory, received honor Peoples Artist of the USSR in 1976 and Order of Lenin honor in 1986 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 and professor, Juiliard Graduate School 1879 Symon Petlyura, leader Ukraine, pogroms 1873 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Radi Ukraine, Hebrew poet/translator 1831 Helena Blavatsky, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true 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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