Czechoslovakia · event 11 of 12

16 January 1969

Jan Palach. A twenty-year-old student sets himself on fire at the top of Wenceslas Square, in protest not at the invasion but at the resignation that followed it. He dies three days later. A cross is set in the pavement where he fell.

The Czechoslovakia era

  1. 28 October 1918
  2. 30 September 1938
  3. 15 March 1939
  4. 1941
  5. 27 May 1942
  6. 5 May 1945
  7. 25 February 1948
  8. 1952
  9. 1 May 1955
  10. 21 August 1968
  11. 16 January 1969
  12. 1 January 1977

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