Portal:Czech Republic/Selected anniversaries/April

• 5 April 1937 – Prague Václav Havel Airport (pictured) opens as Prague Ruzyně Airport
• 7 April 1348 – Charles University in Prague is founded
• 17 April 1969 – First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubček, is replaced by Gustáv Husák
• 18 April 1920 – The first parliamentary elections are held in Czechoslovakia
• 26 April 1945 – The Red Army liberates the city of Brno at the end of World War II