Jan Palach | |
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Born | |
Died | 19 January 1969 | (aged 20)
Cause of death | Burns from self-immolation |
Resting place | Olšany Cemetery |
Nationality | Czech |
Alma mater | Charles University |
Occupation | student |
Known for | self-immolation after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia |
Awards | Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (in memoriam) |
Jan Palach (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies.
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