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This day in history

1918: Local history museum is founded in Cherkasy.

1918: The Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey) resume hostilities after Soviet Russia refuses to sign a peace treaty.

1919: The All-Union Central Executive Committee adopts a decree setting up railroad militia and railroad security units.

1952: James Mace, future US historian and political scientist, who will open the world’s eye to the truth about the 1932-33 Holodomor in Ukraine, is born in Oklahoma.

1964: The trial over the Soviet poet and translator Joseph Brodsky begins in Leningrad. The people’s court eventually rules to exile him from Leningrad for five years. In 1965 the case is revised, the sentence overruled. In 1872 the poet emigrates to the US.

1966: The Council of Ministers of the USSR adopts a decree organizing Simferopol State University.

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