On this Day, in 1955: the Warsaw Pact came into existence in Central and Eastern Europe
On May 14, 1955, eight countries including the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, signed the Warsaw Treaty, bringing intoContinue Reading
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On May 14, 1955, eight countries including the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, signed the Warsaw Treaty, bringing intoContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – Undoubtedly tied together by geographical, linguistic, and cultural proximity, the two offspring of late Czechoslovakia haveContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – Two new memorial dates have been added to the Czech calendar and included in the country’sContinue Reading
On March 29, 1990, the Great Hyphen Debate, also referred to as the “Hyphen war”, erupted in Czechoslovakia, leading toContinue Reading
Bratislava, Slovakia – Slovak descendants worldwide can pop their champagne because it’s now official. On Monday March 7, Slovak PresidentContinue Reading
On March 2, 1978, Czech cosmonaut Vladimír Remek became the first and only Czech to fly to space, and theContinue Reading
Bratislava, Slovakia – It’s said that good things come to those who wait. For Slovak descendants worldwide yearning for aContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – One of the most prolific Czech directors and screenwriters of all time, Otakar Vávra’s incredible careerContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – One of the most talented Czech filmmakers of her generation, the works of Věra Chytilová stillContinue Reading
On January 25, 1946, the government of a newly restored Czechoslovakia started the forced deportation of ethnic Germans and HungariansContinue Reading
On November 23, 1921, the opera Katya Kabanova by acclaimed Czech composer Leoš Janáček was first performed in Brno, Czechoslovakia.Continue Reading
On November 2, 1938, orchestrated by the foreign ministers of Germany, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and of Italy, Galeazzo Ciano, theContinue Reading
On September 30, 1938, Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy signed the Munich Agreement, which sanctioned Adolf Hitler’s annexationContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – Known as the only living monarch who speaks fluent Czech, Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni has aContinue Reading
On August 21, 1968, 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia and crushed the Prague Spring, successfully stopping Alexander Dubček’s liberalisationContinue Reading
On July 28, 1914, one month after the assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, ignitingContinue Reading
On 19 July, 1966, Argentine guerillero and key figure of the Cuban revolution Ernesto Che Guevara boarded a plane fromContinue Reading
On June 29, 1945, Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš, pressured by Czech and Slovak communists, signed a treaty with the SovietContinue Reading
On June 9, 1942, in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler personally ordered the complete destruction ofContinue Reading
Prague, Czech Republic – The lower house of the Czech Parliament approved a bill to financially compensate Roma women victimsContinue Reading