The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assembly_(Czechoslovakia)" id="mwAZY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Federal Assembly (Czechoslovakia)">Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia</a> votes to split the country into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic" id="mwAZc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakia" id="mwAZg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a>, with effect from January 1, 1993.