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Events from the year 1986 in Czechoslovakia.

Incumbents

• President: Gustáv Husák.
• Prime Minister: Lubomír Štrougal.

Events

• 23 May – Parliamentary elections are held with 99.39 percent turnout.
• 20 October – Abortion is fully legalised in the Czech Socialist Republic. The law came into effect in the Slovak Socialist Republic three days later.

Popular culture

Film

• Forbidden Dreams (Czech: Smrt krásných srnců), directed by Karel Kachyňa is released.
• Krysař, directed by Jiří Barta, is released. The film was later released in English under the title The Pied Piper.
• Scalpel, Please (Czech: Skalpel, prosím), directed by Jiří Svoboda, is released.

Births

• 19 December – Zuzana Hejnová, winner of the silver medal in athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Deaths

• 10 January – Jaroslav Seifert, writer, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Literature (born 1901).
• 15 January – Anna Zemánková, artist (born 1908).
• 27 August – Olga Šilhánová, gymnast, gold medal winner at the 1948 Summer Olympics (born 1920).
• 9 November – Jaroslava Muchová, artist (born 1909).

References

Citations

1. Lentz 2013, p. 213.
2. Lentz 2013, p. 217.
3. Nohlen & Stöver 2010, p. 465.
4. Cook & Paxton 2001, p. 208.
5. Abortion Policies: Oman to Zimbabwe, UN, 1992, p. 198
6. Táňa 2010, p. 424.
7. Táňa 2010, p. 375.
8. Táňa 2010, p. 304.
9. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Zuzana Hejnová". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016.
10. Paton & Uhdeová 1998, p. 123.
11. Umělci čistého srdce : naivní a lidové umění, art brut : sbírka Pavla konečného [Artists of pure heart: naivist and folk art, art brut] (in Czech). Olomouc: Ottobre 12. 2001. p. 89.
12. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Olga Šilhánová". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
13. Mucha 1989, p. 267.

Bibliography

• Cook, Chris; Paxton, John (2001). European Political Facts of the Twentieth Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-33397-746-0.
• Lentz, Harris M. (2013). Heads of States and Governments. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-13426-490-2.
• Mucha, Jiří (1989). Alphonse Maria Mucha: His Life and Art. New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 978-0-84781-019-2.
• Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (2010). Elections in Europe: A Data Handbook. Baden-Baden: Nomos. ISBN 978-3-83295-609-7.
• Paton, Derek; Uhdeová, Jitka (1998). The Charta 77 Foundation: Twenty Years. Brno: Brno. ISBN 978-8-07108-179-1.
• Táňa, Bretyšová (2010). Czech Feature Film 6 1981–1993. Prague: Národní Filmový Archiv. ISBN 978-8-07004-141-3.

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