Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Palach, Jan

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

The freight train was grossly overloaded with illegal passengers. With all the cars in the tunnel, people died of carbon monoxide poisoning when the train stalled on a steep gradient.
(2 March 1944)

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		Revolutionary student Jan Palach aka Pochodeň č. 1 11 August 1948 (+) is born in Praha, Czechoslovakia. 16 January 1969 (x) puts himself on fire as a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring in Praha, Czechoslovakia. 19 January 1969 (-) dies due to injuries after his self-immolation protest three days earlier in Praha, Czechoslovakia.
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