This day in history December 25, 2019-Ukraine
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Started by metmike - Dec. 25, 2019, 9:08 p.m.

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1758Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage.  This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.


1991Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.

Probably nobody thought much of that or the Ukraine until that country has been in the news so much the last 3 months. 

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By metmike - Dec. 25, 2019, 9:10 p.m.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Ukrainian_independence_referendum


A referendum on the Act of Declaration of Independence was held in Ukraine on 1 December 1991.[1] An overwhelming majority of 92.3% of voters approved the declaration of independence made by the Verkhovna Rada on 24 August 1991.

Results

 

The ballot paper used in the referendum, with the text of the Declaration of Independence printed on it.

Ukrainian media had converted en masse to the independence ideal.

Polls showed 63% support for the "Yes" campaign in September 1991; that grew to 77% in the first week of October 1991 and 88% by mid-November 1991.[17]

55% of the ethnic Russians in Ukraine voted for independence.[18]

ChoiceVotes%
For28,804,07192.3
Against2,417,5547.7
Invalid/blank votes670,117
Total31,891,742100
Registered voters/turnout37,885,55584.2
Source: Nohlen & Stöver