Václav Havel's birthday commemorated

People all over Czechia are commemorating the 87th anniversary of the birth of Václav Havel, the last Czechoslovak and the first Czech president. In Trutnov in the Hradec Králové Region, a memorial site on top of a cinema will be unveiled, while at the Faculty of Philosophy in Olomouc, an event commemorating Havel's thoughts and speeches is planned. People in Prague are expected to gather at Havel's grave in the Vinohrady cemetery.

The former president, playwright and dissident Václav Havel was born on October 5, 1936. He died at his cottage in Hrádečka on December 18, 2011 at the age of 75.