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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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