Jan Palach, a 21-year-old student of history and political economics at Charles University, sets himself ablaze, in Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czechoslovakia, to protest the invasion of his nation by the Soviet Red Army, and subsequent deposition of liberal First Secretary Alexander Dubcek, of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
[added 10/23/2022] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.
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Jan Palach—Factbites
www.factbites.com/topics/Jan-Palach
CZECH PLAYWRIGHT FREED FROM PRISON – The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/1989/05/18/world/czech-playwright-freed-from-prison.html
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