2017 in the Czech Republic
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Events from the year 2017 in the Czech Republic
Incumbents
[edit]Popular Events
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- 22 January – Green Day themselves are coming back to the Czech Republic along with the new album and classic hits after seven years.[1]
- 27 January – A Czech court rules in favour of a nursing school that banned a Somali refugee student from wearing a headscarf.[2][3]
- 6 February – A Prague Fast-Food Restaurant Bans the Burka.[4]
- 19 August – A famous English singer Robbie Williams performed in the open together with a legendary synthpop duo Erasure.[5]
- 19 September – A Czech appeals court upholds a lower court ruling that went against the headscarf.[6]
In popular culture
[edit]Sports
[edit]- 25–29 January – The 2017 European Figure Skating Championships were hosted by the Czech Figure Skating Association.
- 2–14 May – The 2017 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship was hosted in the cities of Plzeň and Příbram, and the towns of Přeštice and Domažlice.
- 16–25 June – The EuroBasket Women 2017 was hosted in the Czech cities of Prague and Hradec Králové.
Television
[edit]- 2 January – First episode of the television series Svět pod hlavou was aired (first of ten episodes).
Deaths
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- 16 January – Jiří Navrátil, scout leader (b. 1923).[7]
- 20 January – Naděžda Kavalírová, physician and human rights activist (b. 1923).[8]
- 23 January – Jaroslav Vacek, Indologist (b. 1943).[9]
- 27 January – Petr Kop, volleyball player and Olympian (b. 1937).[10]
- 28 January – Lubomír Doležel, literary theorist (b. 1922).[11]
- 7 February – Antonín Přidal, writer and translator (b. 1935).[12]
- 11 February – Jarmila Šuláková, folk singer and actress (b. 1929).[13]
- 14 February – Jiří Lanský, high jumper and Olympian (b. 1933).[14]
- 16 February – Josef Augusta, ice hockey player and coach (b. 1946).[15]
- 23 February – Ivo Svoboda, politician (b. 1948).[16]
- 18 March – Miloslav Vlk, cardinal and Archbishop of Prague (b. 1932).[17]
- 22 March –
- Alexandr Kliment, writer (b. 1929).[18]
- Helena Štáchová, puppeteer (b. 1944).[19]
- 26 March – Věra Špinarová, singer (b. 1951).[20]
- 6 April – Libuše Havelková, actress (b. 1924).[21]
- 18 April – Augustin Bubník, ice hockey player and Olympian (b. 1928).[22]
- 23 April – František Rajtoral, footballer (b. 1986).[23]
- 24 April –
- František Brůna, handball player (b. 1944).[24]
- Dagmar Lerchová, figure skater and Olympian (b. 1930).[25]
- 19 May – David Bystroň, footballer (b. 1982).[26]
- 31 May – Jiří Bělohlávek, conductor (b. 1946).[27]
- 2 June – Jaroslav Kořán, Mayor of Prague, translator (b. 1940).[28]
- 15 June – Olbram Zoubek, sculptor (b. 1926).[29]
- 25 June – Eduard Zeman, politician (b. 1948).[30]
- 16 July – Eva Děpoltová, operatic soprano (b. 1945).[31]
- 19 July – Karel Franta, painter (b. 1928).[32]
- 22 July – František Ševčík, ice hockey player and Olympian (b. 1942).[33]
- 25 July – Ivana Loudová, composer (b. 1941).[34]
- 19 November – Jana Novotná, tennis player, (b. 1968).[35]
- 2 December – Iva Ritschelová, economist, (b. 1964)[36]
References
[edit]- ^ "Green Day". greenday.com. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ "Czech court rejects suit over school veil ban". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "Czech court dismisses hijab ban complaint against school". AP NEWS. 27 January 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "Prague Fast-Food Restaurant Bans Women Wearing Niqab". www.expats.cz. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "Robbie Williams' 20 greatest songs ever, ranked". Smooth. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
- ^ "Czech court upholds ruling against student who accused school of discrimination because of hijab ban". National Post. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- ^ "V 93 letech zemřel bývalý politický vězeň a skaut Jiří Navrátil". České Noviny (in Czech). 16 January 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- ^ "Head of Confederation of Political Prisoners Naděžda Kavalírová dies at 93". Radio Prague. 21 January 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "Zemřel prof. Jaroslav Vacek, bývalý děkan FF UK". FF UK (in Czech). 24 January 2017. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
- ^ "Ve věku 79 let zemřel volejbalový mistr světa Petr Kop". denik.cz (in Czech). 28 January 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "Za Lubomírem Doleželem". uclk.ff.cuni.cz (in Czech). 10 February 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "Zemřel překladatel a publicista Antonín Přidal". novinky.cz (in Czech). 7 February 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
- ^ "Ve věku 87 let zemřela známá folklórní zpěvačka Jarmila Šuláková" (in Czech). iDNES (originally ČTK). 11 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Zemřel Jiří Lanský". atletika.cz (in Czech). 21 February 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "La légende tchèque du hockey Josef Augusta décède à 70 ans". lesechos.fr (in French). 16 February 2017. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ "Zemřel exministr financí Svoboda. Prošel vězením za vytunelování Liberty". idnes.cz (in Czech). 1 March 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
- ^ "Former Head of Czech Roman Catholic Church Miloslav Vlk Dies at 84". Radio Prague. 18 March 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
- ^ "Zemřel spisovatel a publicista Alexandr Kliment, signatář Charty 77". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 22 March 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
- ^ "Spejbl & Hurvínek Prague theatre head, puppeteer Štáchová dies". Czech News Agency. Prague Daily Monitor. 23 March 2017. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "Czech hit singer Věra Špinarová dies". Radio Prague. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "Zemřela herečka Libuše Havelková, babička z Kouzelné školky". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 6 April 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ "Sbohem, šampione. Zemřela hokejová legenda Augustin Bubník". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 18 April 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "Former Czech Republic international Frantisek Rajtoral found dead after 'committing suicide'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ "Navždy odešel František Brůna". denik.cz (in Czech). 25 April 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
- ^ "Smutná zpráva". CzechSkating.org (in Czech). 28 April 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Další fotbalová tragédie. Bývalý plzeňský stoper Bystroň se oběsil". iDNES.cz (in Czech). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ Tilden, Imogen (1 June 2017). "Czech conductor and former BBCSO chief Jiří Bělohlávek dies aged 71". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ "Zemřel Jaroslav Kořán, první polistopadový primátor Prahy". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 2 June 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ "Czech sculptor Olbram Zoubek dies at age 91". AP. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ "Former Czech education minister Eduard Zeman dies". Prague Daily Monitor. 27 June 2017. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ^ "V 71 letech zemřela sopranistka Eva Děpoltová". novinky.cz (in Czech). 17 July 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Ve věku 89 let zemřel výtvarník Karel Franta". denik.cz (in Czech). 20 July 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "Zemřel bývalý hokejový reprezentant Ševčík". České Noviny (in Czech). 22 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ "Ve věku 76 let zemřela skladatelka Ivana Loudová". novinky.cz (in Czech). 26 July 2017. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- ^ Bierley, Stephen (20 November 2017). "No one will forget the day it came right for Jana Novotna at Wimbledon". The Guardian.
- ^ "Zemřela předsedkyně Českého statistického úřadu Iva Ritschelová, bylo jí 53 let" [The chairwoman of the Czech Statistical Office, Iva Ritschelová, has died at the age of 53]. Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). 3 December 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2022.