Alexander Dubcek, former First Secretary of the Presidium of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, disgraced three decades earlier by party hardliners, is elected Chairman of the non-communist Federal Assembly.
Postscript: The next day the FA unanimously elects formerly imprisoned dissident playwright Vaclav Havel to be the next President of Czechoslovakia.
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References:
Revolutions of 1989 – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989
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