The “Prague Spring” ends: the communist Warsaw Pact nations of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, the Democratic Republic of (East) Germany, Hungary and Poland, invade their communist ally Czechoslovakia, to put a halt to the liberalization reforms of First Secretary Alexander Dubcek.

       [restored 10/23/2022]

Subsequent Events:

1/16/1969                   12/13/1981                    11/30/1983                    7/7/1989

References:

“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 20 August 2009, News:3.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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