Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar
A guard found the Vakrinos hanging in the showers of the prison isolation ward where he was being held with two other prisoners.
(12 May 1997)
There are 3366 births, 3930 deaths, 1121 murders, 498 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6431 places until today.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 16th of January 1969 56 years ago |
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 21-year-old revolutionary student Jan Palach aka Pochodeň č. 1 puts himself on fire as a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring in Wenceslas Square, Praha, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia. “Given the fact that our nations are on the verge of desperation and resignation, we have decided to express our protest and stir the sleeping conscience of the nation.” Palach died three days later in the Charles University Faculty Hospital. |
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