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Czech university student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague on January 16,1969, as a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. His funeral turned into a major mass protest against the occupation. Another student Jan Zajic burned himself to death in the same place on February 25, 1969, followed by Evzen Plocek in April 1969 in Jihlava. The hearse carrying the coffin leads funeral procession of Jan Palach from the courtyard of Karolinum, official seat of Charles University, across Prague, January 25, 1969. CTK Photo (KEYSTONE/CTK/CTK)