Václav Havel died December 18, 2011
The Czech Republic’s first President, Václav Havel, died December 18, 2011
Dissident, poet, playwright, and politician 1936 – 2011
For Vaclav Havel, and for his people, everything changed in 1989, the year of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, when he led the extraordinary display of people power which toppled the ruling communist regime. Obituary: Vaclav Havel – BBC News
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