Student <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jan Palach">Jan Palach</a> dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prague">Prague</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslas_Square" id="mw-A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Wenceslas Square">Wenceslas Square</a> to protest about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia">invasion</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Czechoslovak Socialist Republic">Czechoslovakia</a> by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mw-w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.