Dec 18, 2011
Václav Havel, the Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident, died at 75.
memorial gathering on Havel's deathday
Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the fall of communism in the country on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003.
Quote for Today
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
- Václav Havel
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