3,503 years ago today: two-year-old Thutmose III ascends the Egyptian throne.

Today, not even four will step on the grass on St. George’s.

Today are the 9th and 6th birthdays of three of our grandchildren – Libuška, Viktor and Evelína.

Today is Brabra Streisand’s 82nd birthday, Milena Černá should have had the same birthday today, honor and glory to her memory.

Today is World Laboratory Animal Day.

3,207 years ago today, the Achaeans conquer Troy.

224 years ago today, the US Library of Congress was established.

213 years ago today, classes began at the Prague Conservatory, the oldest school of its kind in Central Europe.

170 years ago today, JCKV Francis Joseph marries Bavarian Princess Elizabeth of Wittelsbach, AKA Sissi.

159 years ago today, Jiří Janda, the founder and first director of the zoological garden in Prague, was born.

150 years ago today, Tchaikovsky’s Oprichnik premiered in Saint Petersburg.

Today, 112 years ago, the Czech scout organization – Junák – was founded.

101 years ago today, Sigmund Freud’s essay Das Ich und das Es was published in Leipzig, where he explains for the first time the structural model of the Ego – Id psyche. Superego.

86 years ago today, Konrad Henlein presented a set of demands to the Czechoslovak government at the congress of the Sudeten German Party in Karlovy Vary, ensuring full equal rights for German-speaking citizens. The government will comply with these demands at the beginning of September, but in the meantime the situation will further escalate…

75 years ago today, the Bolshevik vanguard Pionýr was founded to replace the banned Junák.

46 years ago today, the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted was founded in Prague.

34 years ago today, the space shuttle Discovery launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

20 years ago today, a referendum was held in Cyprus on the reunification of the two communities based on a painstakingly negotiated agreement – while the Turkish part approves of the agreement, the Greek community rejects it. The island remains divided to this day…