Thursday, May 30, 2013
0932-03-04 - Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1539-02-19 - Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava Czech), expelled
1741-12-27 - Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
1915-10-29 - Thomas Masaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
1915-11-14 - Thomas Masaryk demands independence for Czechoslovakia
1917-12-20 - Russian secret police in Cheka forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
1918-08-30 - Czechoslovakia forms independence republic
1918-10-18 - Czechoslovakia declares Independence from Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918-10-28 - Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1918-10-30 - Slovakia asks for creation of Czechoslovakian state
1918-11-14 - Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as president
1920-03-28 - Thomas Masaryk elected president of Czechoslovakia
1920-08-10 - Allies recognize Poland, Czechoslovakia & Romania
1920-08-14 - Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia
1922-10-06 - Schwebla replaces Benes government in Czechoslavakia
1927-05-27 - Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
1934-06-10 - Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
1935-03-06 - Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
1935-12-18 - Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1938-04-23 - Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1938-09-12 - Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
1938-09-21 - Winston Churchill condemns Hitler's annexation of Czechoslovakia
1938-09-26 - Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
1938-09-30 - Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1938-10-01 - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
1938-10-10 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1938-11-21 - Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens
1939-03-14 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1939-03-15 - Hitler occupies Bohemia & Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ
1939-03-16 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939-10-28 - Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939-11-15 - Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1941-11-11 - Czech premier general Eliasjarrested by nazis
1941-12-15 - Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
1942-05-27 - Hitler orders 10,000 Czechs murdered
1942-05-28 - 1,800 Czechs murdered by Nazis during attack on Heydrich
1942-06-09 - Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice Czechoslovakia
1942-06-10 - Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
1942-09-06 - Czech marathon runner Oskar Hêks transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
1944-10-06 - Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
1944-10-18 - Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia during WW II
1945-04-10 - Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
1945-05-09 - Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
1945-06-29 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, becomes part of Ukrainian SSR
1946-05-26 - Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
1947-12-10 - USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948-02-20 - Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
1948-02-24 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1948-02-25 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
1948-06-07 - Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia; Pres Bernes resigns
1948-06-14 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949-07-15 - Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
1950-06-26 - Pres Gottwald of Czech confirms Milada Horakova's death sentence
1951-02-26 - Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
1952-11-20 - Slánský trials begin - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.
1952-12-06 - Czech government tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona non grata
1953-03-22 - AntonínZápotockýchosen as president of Czechoslovakia
1953-12-24 - 2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
1955-05-14 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
1957-11-19 - Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
1960-02-28 - US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Canada
1960-07-11 - Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
1960-11-14 - 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
1962-06-17 - Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
1963-09-22 - Czechoslovakian premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart)
1964-06-11 - West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia
1968-01-05 - Dubcek succeeds pres Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia
1968-03-22 - Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia
1968-03-30 - General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia
1968-04-08 - Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
1968-05-14 - Czech government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
1968-08-20 - 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968-08-21 - Radio Prague (Czech) at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion
1968-08-21 - Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
1968-10-16 - Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
1969-04-17 - Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed
1969-08-23 - France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912)
1970-01-28 - Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia
1973-12-11 - West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech
1975-09-06 - Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova asks for US political asylum in New York City during the US Open
1975-12-21 - 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2)
1976-06-20 - Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ
1977-01-01 - Czech intellects begin Human Rights Group Chapter 77
1977-04-23 - Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort plays 201 games simultaneously & only loses 10
1978-03-02 - Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6
1983-07-24 - 21st Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Germany in Zurich Switz (2-1)
1983-07-26 - Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
1984-07-22 - 22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)
1985-01-13 - 23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1)
1986-07-27 - 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
1987-12-17 - Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns
1988-01-01 - Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen
1989-09-10 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech)
1989-11-24 - Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989-12-10 - President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1989-12-28 - Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
1989-12-29 - Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1990-02-26 - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
1990-06-09 - Czechoslovakia beats US 5-1 in World Cup soccer
1992-07-20 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
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