Jan Palach

Jan Palach
Palach's student ID photo
Born(1948-08-11)August 11, 1948[1]
Všetaty, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)[1]
DiedJanuary 19, 1969(1969-01-19) (aged 20)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Cause of deathBurns from self-immolation
Resting placeOlšany Cemetery
NationalityCzech
Alma materCharles University
Occupationstudent
Known forself-immolation after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia
AwardsOrder of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (in memoriam)
The memorial to Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in front of the National Museum during the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution

Jan Palach (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969)[1] was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation in 1969 at age 20 was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 by the Warsaw Pact armies.

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