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Anniversary of the week
October 24, 1942: family members of Heydrich’s assassins murdered in Mauthausen
In retaliation for the assassination of Heydrich, 262 relatives and helpers of the paratroopers were court-martialled and sentenced to death by the Prague Gestapo.
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October 1972: Prague says goodbye to trolleybuses
The last trolleybus route in Prague, from Orionka to Strahov Stadium, came to an end on 15 October 1972.
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Sokol Memorial Day
Sokol Memorial Day honours the memory of more than 1,500 members of the nation’s oldest athletics association, who were arrested by the Gestapo on October 8, 1941.
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190 years since the first kindergarten was established in the Bohemian lands
The first pre-school institution -a so-called "model youth nursery" - was founded in 1832 by Jan Svoboda, a teacher at the Prague Emmaus parish school Na Hrádku.
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135 years ago: The first football match in the Czech lands
The first ever football match in the Czech lands is believed to have taken place 135 years ago.
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Toyen, one of the most important surrealist artists of the 20th century, was born 120 years ago
Toyen, one of the most important surrealist artists of the twentieth century, was born 120 years ago
