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Miroslav Válek
Miroslav Válek (July 17, 1927 – January 27, 1991) was a Slovak poet, publicist and politician. Biography Miroslav Válek was born in Trnava and from 1947 to 1949 he studied at Vysoká škola obchodná in Bratislava. During the years 1949–1963 he worked as an editor for magazines (''Slovenský roľník'', ''Týždeň (časopis), Týždeň'', ''Družstevný obzor''), finally becoming general editor of ''Mladá tvorba''. In 1962 he joined the KSČ, Communist party of Czechoslovakia. In the years 1966–1967 he was general editor of the magazine ''Romboid'' and also the secretary of Zväz slovenských spisovateľov, later (1967–1968) serving as its president. Válek was politically active and became high ranking party official. As a result of Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation, the Ministry of Culture of Slovakia was established in 1969, with Miroslav Válek as its minister, position he held until 1988. In 1971 he became a member of party central committe ...
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Slovak Poets
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1991 Deaths
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1927 Births
Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the BBC, British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, John Reith becomes the first Director-General. * January 7 ** The first transatlantic telephone call is made ''via radio'' from New York City, United States, to London, United Kingdom. ** The Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team play their first ever road game in Hinckley, Illinois. * January 9 – The Laurier Palace Theatre fire at a movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children. * January 10 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film ''Metropolis (1927 film), Metropolis'' is released in Germany. * January 11 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California. * January 24 – U.S. Marines United States occ ...
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Marián Varga
Marián Varga (29 January 1947 – 9 August 2017) was a Slovak musician, composer and Organ (music), organist. In the context of Czech-Slovak musical culture of the second half of the 20th century, Varga was a significant figure in the field of autonomous, modern classical music, rock music, as well as improvised or experimental music. In 1967, he became a member of the band Prúdy, with whom he recorded and co-wrote the legendary album ''Zvoňte, zvonky''. Influenced by Brian Auger and Keith Emerson, Marián Varga founded the band Collegium musicum in 1969, whose albums ''Konvergencie'', ''Zelená pošta'', ''Collegium Musicum Live'' and ''Divergencie'' represent the main pillars of Czech-Slovak rock music. He died on 9 August 2017 after several health problems, including cancer and lung disease. Discography With Prúdy *1968: ''Zvoňte, zvonky'' Collegium Musicum *1970: "Hommage à J.S.Bach / Ulica plná plášťov do dažďa" (SP) *1971: ''Collegium Musicum'' *1971: ''Konver ...
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Pavol Hammel
Pavol Hammel (born 7 December 1948, in Bratislava) is a Slovak musician, singer and producer. Pavol Hammel was born to a family of musicians. His father played violin in the Slovak National Theatre, and influenced Pavol to become a promising violin player too. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava in 1976. He gained fame initially in the group Prúdy, but has since established a successful solo career. He is married and has two daughters. Discography Studio albums * ''Zvoňte zvonky'' (1969) * ''Pokoj vám'' (1969) * ''Pavol Hammel a Prúdy'' (1970) * ''Som šťastný, keď ste šťastní'' (1971) * ''Zelená pošta'' (1972) * ''Šľahačková princezná'' (1973) * ''Hráč'' (1975) * ''Na II. programe sna'' (1976) * ''Stretnutie s tichom'' (1978) * '' On a Ona'' (1979) * ''Vrabec vševed'' (1979) * ''Faust a margréty'' (1980) * ''Čas malín'' (1981) * ''Now I Know'' (1982) * ''Dnes už viem'' (1983) * ''Všetko je inak'' (1989) * ''L ...
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Miroslav Žbirka
Miroslav "Miro" Žbirka (21 October 1952 – 10 November 2021) was a Slovak pop and rock singer and songwriter, widely popular in 1980s Czechoslovakia. Born in Bratislava to a Slovak father and an English mother, he sang in Slovak, English, and Czech. He sometimes recorded in London, but lived in Slovakia and since early 1990s in Prague, Czech Republic, where he died. In the late 1970s, Žbirka co-founded two Czechoslovak pop music bands, Modus and Limit. In 1982, he rose to fame by winning the annual Zlatý slavík award for the best male singer in Czechoslovakia. After the 1992 division of Czechoslovakia, he repeated this achievement in the Slovak annual Slávik Awards, coming number one in the annual end of year charts in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Žbirka had some performances with Jon Anderson in 2012. Asteroid 5895 Žbirka, discovered by Czech astronomer Zdeňka Vávrová in 1982, was named in his honor (the official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 20 ...
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Candle Demonstration In Bratislava
The Candle demonstration () on 25 March 1988 in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, was the first mass demonstration since 1969 against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. The demonstration was organized by Roman Catholic dissent groups asking for religious freedom in Czechoslovakia. The peaceful candle demonstration of five thousand believers was suppressed by the police. The demonstration was planned by Marián Šťastný, executive vice-president of the Slovak World Congress and his associate Paul Arnold of Switzerland. They were in touch with the Čarnogurský family of Bratislava and passed on the plans for the demonstration via Šťastný's mother-in-law, who was on a visit to Switzerland. Catholic activist František Mikloško initiated a request for a permit to demonstrate, but his proposal was rejected by the authorities. Information about the event was propagated through Vatican Radio and by Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. The demonstration was the f ...
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Constitutional Act On The Czechoslovak Federation
The Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation (, ) was a constitutional law in Czechoslovakia adopted on 27 October 1968 and in force from 1 January 1969 to 1 January 1993. It converted the previously unitary Czechoslovak state into a federation. Federation For nearly all of its existence as an independent nation, Czechoslovakia had been a unitary state, the lone exception being the " Czecho-Slovakia era" immediately before World War II. The concentration of governmental authority in Prague was a source of discontent within Slovakia throughout the 1960s. As part of the Prague Spring reforms, Communist Party leader Alexander Dubček, himself a Slovak, sought to grant more autonomy to the Slovaks. Indeed, the resulting reform was virtually the only product of the Prague Spring to survive the Soviet invasion. The promulgation of the Constitutional Law of the Federation amended fifty-eight articles of the 1960 Constitution of Czechoslovakia concerning government structur ...
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Trnava
Trnava (, , ; , also known by other #Names and etymology, alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, to the northeast of Bratislava, on the Trnávka river. It is the capital of the Trnava Region and the Trnava District. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric (1541–1820 and then again since 1977). The city has a historic center. Because of the many churches within its city walls, Trnava has often been called "Little Rome" (, ), or more recently, the "Slovak Rome". Names and etymology The name of the city is derived from the name of the creek Trnava. It comes from the Old Slavic/Slovak word ''tŕň'' ("thornbush")Martin Štefánik – Ján Lukačka et al. 2010, Lexikón stredovekých miest na Slovensku, Historický ústav SAV, Bratislava, 2010, p. 523, . http://forumhistoriae.sk/-/lexikon-stredovekych-miest-na-slovensku which characterized the river banks in the region. Many towns in Central and Eastern Europe have a similar etymology including Trnovo, Marti ...
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