<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechs" id="mwAQI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Czechs">Czech</a> student <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach" id="mwAQM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jan Palach">Jan Palach</a> commits suicide by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation" id="mwAQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Self-immolation">self-immolation</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prague">Prague, Czechoslovakia</a>, in protest against the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" id="mwAQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Soviet Union">Soviets</a>' crushing of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Prague Spring">Prague Spring</a> the year before.<sup about="#mwt136" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_16#cite_note-24" id="mwAQg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQk">[24]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"><cite about="#mwt133" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMcRae1997">McRae, Robert Grant (1997). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=B-Nj0s5wRhkC" id="mwCGI" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCGM">Resistance and Revolution: Vaclav Havel's Czechoslovakia</i></a>. Ottawa: Carleton University Press. p.<span id="mwCGQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>21. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCGU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCGY" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780886293161" id="mwCGc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780886293161"><bdi id="mwCGg">9780886293161</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt133" class="Z3988" id="mwCGk" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Resistance+and+Revolution%3A+Vaclav+Havel%27s+Czechoslovakia&amp;rft.place=Ottawa&amp;rft.pages=21&amp;rft.pub=Carleton+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1997&amp;rft.isbn=9780886293161&amp;rft.aulast=McRae&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+Grant&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DB-Nj0s5wRhkC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+16"></span></span>