Czech writer, philosopher and dissident <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Václav_Havel" id="mwvA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Václav Havel">Václav Havel</a> is elected the first post-communist President of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia" id="mwvQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>.<sup about="#mwt118" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_29#cite_note-21" id="mwvg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwvw">[21]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"><cite about="#mwt115" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFNiland2011">Niland, Lauren (19 December 2011). <a class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2011/dec/19/from-the-archive-vaclav-havel-president-1989" id="mwCKE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"29 December 1989: Václav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia"</a>. <i id="mwCKI">The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCKM">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCKQ">5 December</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt115" class="Z3988" id="mwCKU" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&amp;rft.atitle=29+December+1989%3A+V%C3%A1clav+Havel+becomes+president+of+Czechoslovakia&amp;rft.date=2011-12-19&amp;rft.aulast=Niland&amp;rft.aufirst=Lauren&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2Ffrom-the-archive-blog%2F2011%2Fdec%2F19%2Ffrom-the-archive-vaclav-havel-president-1989&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+29"></span></span>