The European Olympic Committees is the umbrella organization of the National Olympic Committees of Europe, recognized by the International Olympic Committee, with headquarters in Rome. It represents around fifty national committees and works to promote the Olympic movement in Europe, to support its members and to organize multi-sport events. It organizes the European Youth Olympic Festival, held every two years since the early 1990s for young athletes, and it launched the European Games, first held in Baku in 2015, followed by Minsk in 2019 and Kraków in 2023. It also works with the European Union on issues of sport policy.
Before and after
- 3 December 1967Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
- 21 December 1967Birth of Mikheil Saakashvili
- 1968Prague Spring
- 1 January 1968Establishment of Comoé National Park
- 1968Founding of European Olympic Committees
- from 1968 to 1982Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon
- 1968Founding of FK Sūduva
- 1968Construction of São Paulo Museum of Art
- 1968Establishment of Gombe National Park
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- 22 March 1945Founding of Arab League
- 27 December 1945Founding of World Bank
- 14 September 1960Founding of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
- 8 December 1991Founding of Commonwealth of Independent States
- 1 January 1995Founding of World Trade Organization
- 4 February 2004Founding of Facebook
The era
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