Anniversary of the Week
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7 May, 1939: The funeral that turned into a demonstration against Nazi occupation
The second funeral of poet Karel Hynek Mácha, whose remains were exhumed from the occupied Sudetenland 85 years ago and taken to Prague, became a huge anti-Nazi protest.
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May 1954: First appearance of Škoda Spartak
The Škoda 440, known in Czechoslovakia as the Škoda Spartak, was first seen by the public in a May Day parade in company town Mladá Boleslav in 1954.
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26 April 1929: First Czech “talkie” screened in Ústí nad Labem
The innovation of film with sound first made it to Czechoslovakia 95 years ago. The first sound film to be screened was not a feature film, however, but an advert.
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April 1624: Re-Catholicisation of Czech lands begins
On April 9, 1624 Ferdinand II issued a patent allowing only the Catholic religion in Bohemia.
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60 years since communist regime passed resolution to destroy historic city of Most
On 26 March 1964, the Czechoslovak government decided to liquidate the old city of Most to make way for coal mines and apartments to house the miners who would work there.
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Czechs have been driving on the right for 85 years
Duuring the years of the First Republic, Czechs were accustomed to driving on the left. That changed with the Nazi occupation in 1939.