Prague Special Tours by Ivan Galik

23.Jun.1955: First statewide Spartakiad held at Strahov stadium in Prague

21.Jun.1949: General Heliodor Píka, the first victim of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia tried for political reasons, was executed in prison

18.Jun.1979: US President Jimmy Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Salt-II treaty dealing with limitations and guidelines for nuclear weapons. The treaty never came into effect.

15.Jun.1914: The Chairman of the KGB and a Soviet leader from 1982 until 1984, Yuri Andropov, was born

15.Jun.1953: The Leader of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping, leading the country since 2013, was born

16.Jun.1958: Hungarian communist politician Imre Nagy was executed for treason

12.Jun:1982: More than 700,000 demonstrators in New York protest against proliferation of nuclear weapons

8.-9.Jun.1990: First free elections in Czech and Slovak Federative Republic

7.Jun.1948: Abdication of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš

6.Jun.2015: Author of the Two Thousand Words manifesto Ludvík Vaculík died

3.Jun.1931: Cuban revolutionary and President Raúl Castro, leading the country since 2008, was born

1.Jun.1953: Drastic currency reform in Czechoslovakia causing a decline in living standards

30.May.1948: First parliamentary Czechoslovak elections during communism were held

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28.May.1884: Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš, leading the country from 1935 until 1938 and from 1945 until 1948, was born

26.May.1972: The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed by the President of the United States, Richard Nixon and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev

25.May.2009: North Korea announced that it has conducted a nuclear underground explosion as a part of its nuclear weapons program

22.May.1972: US president Richard Nixon visited Soviet Union in order to negotiate about international issues. He was the first US President who visited Soviet Union.

19.May.1890: Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh was born

19.May.1925: One of the cruellest dictators of the 20th century, Saloth Sar ‘Pol Pot’, was born

15.May.1957: Britain announced it has exploded its first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific

14.May.1955: The Warsaw Pact was created with Czechoslovakia as the founding member

11.May.1998: India announced that a series of underground nuclear tests was carried out

9.May.1974: The metro in Prague started operating

30.Apr.1975: South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam and the war in Vietnam ended

30.Apr.1970: Journalism and documentary office dissolved in Czechoslovak TV by the Communist party

26.Apr.1986: A nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Union

23.Apr.1967: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in accident when his parachute failed to deploy

22.Apr.1870: The lead person of the communist revolution Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ‘Lenin’ was born

19.Apr.1961: The Bay of Pigs Invasion, a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by CIA, started