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May 1884: Kafka’s literary executor Max Brod is born
Max Brod, an important representative of Prague Jewish German literature, was born 140 years ago, on May 27, 1884. He is best known as the saviour of Franz Kafka's work.
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May 18, 1899: Guth-Jarkovsky founds Czech Committee for the Olympic Games
One of the co-authors of the Olympic Charter was Czech Jiří Stanislav Guth-Jarkovský.
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May 12, 1884: Czech music great Bedřich Smetana dies
One of the greatest Czech composers, Bedřich Smetana, known as "the father of Czech music," died on this day, 140 years ago.
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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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