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2010 Event - In Prague, scientists exhume the remains of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe, in an effort to solve the mystery of his sudden death

1997 Death - Bohumil Hrabal, Czechoslovakian writer, storyteller, wrote hyper-realist texts, studied at Charles Univerisity in Prague, known for novels titled Closely Watched Trains and I Served the King of England, dies at 82

1993 Event - Ice Dance Championship at Prague won by M Usova and A Zhulin (RUS)

1993 Event - Ice Pairs Championship at Prague won by I Brasseur and L Eisler (CAN)

1993 Event - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)

1993 Event - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN

1992 Death - Frantisek Tomasek, archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 93

1992 Event - "Les Miserables," opens at Vinorhady Theatre, Prague

1990 Event - HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague

1989 Event - Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague

1986 Event - 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague, Czechoslovakia (3-0)

1979 Birthday - Petra Cada, Prague Czechoslovakia, Canadian table tennis player 1996 Olympics

1978 Birthday - Sandra Kleinova, Prague, Czechoslovakia, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Turku-FIN

1977 Event - Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague

1974 Birthday - Jana Nejedly, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Canadian tennis player 1996 Olympics

1974 Birthday - Stephanie Rottier, St. Niklaas Belgium, tennis star, 1995 semi Prague

1973 Death - Charles Ancerl, Czechoslovakian conductor (Prague/Toronto), dies at 63

1973 Birthday - Radka Bobkova, born in Prague, Czech Republic, tennis star, quarter Bournemouth

1971 Birthday - Natalia Medvedeva, born in Kiev, Ukraine, tennis star, 1993 Prague Essen

1971 Birthday - Daniel Vacek, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, tennis star

1970 Birthday - Daniela Pestova, Chameleon, Prague Czechoslovakia, model, 1995 SI/L'Oreal

1970 Birthday - Julie Halard, born in Versailles, France, tennis star, 1995 Prague

1969 Death - Joseph Beran, Czechoslovakian archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80

1968 Event - Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion

1968 Event - Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague

1968 Event - Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague

1968 Event - "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague

1968 Event - Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague

1968 Birthday - Frantisek Kucera, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman, Vanciyver Canucks, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics

1968 Birthday - Petr Korda, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis star, 1993 Doubles-Cincinnati

1965 Birthday - Helena Sukova, Prague, Czech Republic, tennis star, 1985 U.S. Open's Double

1964 Birthday - Petr Briza, Prague, Czech Republic, hockey goalie, Team Czech Republic

1962 Event - Stalin-monument removed in Prague

1962 Birthday - Hana Mandlikova, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player, 1985 U.S. Open

1952 Event - Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin

1950 Event - Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague

1950 Event - Prague espionage trial against bishops and priests begins

1947 Birthday - Miroslav Vitous, born in Prague, Czech Republic, bassist, double bass, electric bass, jazz musician, compared to Dave Holland, Christian McBride

1946 Event - Darius Milhauds 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Prague

1945 Event - Russian troops occupied Prague

1945 Event - Uprising against SS-occupying troops in Prague

1942 Event - Reinhard Heydrich, "butcher of Prague," appointed SS-general

1942 Event - Reichsfuhrer Himmler arrives in Prague

1942 Event - Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague

1942 Birthday - Petr Kotik, born in Prague, Czech Republic, composer, flutist, minimalist style, founder, S.E.M. ensemble, wrote opera, 'Many Many Women'

1938 Event - BBC's 1st feature film on TV (Student of Prague)

1936 Birthday - Jan Nemec, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, director, Diamonds of the Night

1935 Birthday - Lubos Fiser, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer, wrote soundtracks, chamber music, studied at AMU, Prague Conservatory

1934 Birthday - Jan Klusak, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer, author of incidental music, and music for television, film

1933 Event - International Zionists Congress opens in Prague

1931 Birthday - Evald Schorm, Prague Czechoslovakia, director, Courage for Every Day

1930 Death - Alois Jirasek, writer, taught secondary school, wrote plays, historical novels, including, 'Against Everyone', dies in Prague, Czechoslovakia

1929 Birthday - Josef Suk, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, violinist, Artist of Merit-1977

1923 Birthday - Ladislav Fuks, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, received doctorate at Charles University in Prague

1922 Birthday - Ilja Hurnik, born in Poruba, Czechoslovakia, composer, essayist, studied at Prague Conservatory, Prague Academy of Arts, recorded 'sonata da camera', for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord on Cedille Records

1921 Birthday - Karel Husa, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer, Trojan Women

1921 Event - Karel Capek's "RUR," premieres in Prague

1920 Event - Karel Capek's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague

1920 Event - Karel Capek's "Loupeznik," premieres in Prague

1915 Birthday - Jan Hanus, born in Czechoslovakia, composer, music expressed anti-Nazi, anti-Fascist, anti-Communist sentiments, studied with Otakar Jeremias a the Prague Conservatory

1914 Birthday - Bohumil Hrabal, born in Brno-Zidenice, Moravia, Czechoslovakian writer, storyteller, wrote hyper-realist texts, studied at Charles Univerisity in Prague, known for novels titled Closely Watched Trains and I Served the King of England

1914 Birthday - Jan Kapr, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, pupil of Jaroslav Ridky, second half of the 20th century's most prolific Czech composer

1913 Birthday - Walter Susskind, Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor

1913 Birthday - Oskar Danon, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, composer, conductor, earned Ph.D. musicology in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, director for Belgrade Opera, chief conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra

1912 Birthday - William "Bill" Henson, English diplomat, Prague 1939

1908 Event - Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony, premieres in Prague

1908 Birthday - Karel Ancerl, Czechoslovakian conductor, Prague/Toronto

1908 Birthday - George Schick, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, Chicago Symphony

1906 Birthday - Francis Lederer, Prague Czechoslovakia, actor, Diary of a Chambermaid

1903 Event - Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague

1899 Birthday - Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal

1896 Birthday - Jaromir Weinberger, Prague Czechoslovakia, composer, Bird's Opera

1890 Birthday - Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Prague Czechoslovakia, actor, Moon is Down, 3rd Man

1888 Birthday - Joseph Beran, Czechoslovakian archbishop of Prague/cardinal

1882 Birthday - Leo Perutz, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, writer, wrote 11 novels, mathematician, emigrated to Palestine during Nazi Anschluss, 1938

1881 Event - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Libusa," premieres in Prague

1875 Birthday - Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, poet, wrote, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge', 'Letters to a Young Poet'

1872 Event - Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo," premieres in Prague

1868 Event - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague

1866 Event - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war

1866 Event - Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)

1866 Event - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs. Cechach," premieres in Prague

1791 Event - Mozarts opera "La Clemenza di Tito," premieres in Prague

1787 Event - Opera "Don Giovanni" is produced (Prague)

1774 Event - Empress Maria Theresa expels Jews from Prague, Bohemia and Moravia

1757 Event - Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army

1751 Death - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies at 62

1745 Event - Jews are expelled from Prague

1744 Event - Austrian forces pillage and kill Jews of Prague

1741 Event - French and Beiers army occupies Prague

1733 Event - Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague

1689 Birthday - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Bavarian master builder, Prague

1656 Death - Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71

1649 Event - Last Swedish troops vacate Prague

1635 Event - Emperor Ferdinand II and Saksen sign Peace of Prague

1632 Event - Albrecht von Wallenstein recaptures Prague on Saksen

1631 Event - Saxon army occupies Prague

1630 Death - John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide

1620 Event - Battle of White Mountain, Prague

1618 Event - 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War

1618 Event - Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle

1608 Event - Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague

1601 Death - Tycho Brahe, astronomer, dies in Prague at 54

1601 Death - Tycho Brahe, greatest naked-eye observer, dies in Prague

1600 Event - Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague

1594 Event - Fleming Pieter Stevens appointed royal painter of Rudolf II (Prague)

1585 Birthday - Johan Georg I, elector of Saxon, 1611-56, Peace of Prague

1559 Event - Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted

1528 Death - Lucas van Prague, Czechoslovakian leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68

1420 Event - Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia

1419 Event - Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows

1416 Event - Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church

1416 Death - Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church

1378 Death - Charles IV, Roman-German King/German emperor (University of Prague), dies

1348 Event - Prague University, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV

997 Death - Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40













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