Jan Palach

Jan Palach
Palach's student ID photo, 1968
Born(1948-08-11)11 August 1948
Všetaty, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)
Died19 January 1969(1969-01-19) (aged 20)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Cause of deathBurns from self-immolation
Resting placeOlšany Cemetery
Alma materCharles University
OccupationStudent
Known forSelf-immolation after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
AwardsOrder 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 in 1969 at the age of 20 was a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 which brought an end to the Prague Spring.

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