He protested against the Soviet occupation and sacrificed the ultimate price - his own life. Jan Palach, a student of history and political economy at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, burned himself to death on 16 January 1969, dying in great pain three days later.
In 1911, he became a student of the Wright Brothers Flight School, where he received his Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) pilot's certificate No. 29 and his military airman's certificate No. 2.
He was born around 1031, as the second-born son of Prince Břetislav I and Jitka of Svinibrod. After the death of his father, his elder brother Spytihnev II became the ruling prince, Vratislav inherited the Olomouc destiny according to his father's will. His other siblings are Conrad I of Brno, Ota of Olomouc and Bishop Jaromír.
A significant part of his reign was influenced by his disputes with Louis Bavor over the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. For the last three years of his life, he was very ill and made himself scarce. Frederick I of Habsburg, who is also known as the Magnificent, died on 13 January 1330.
The Ottoman Empire fought alongside the Central Powers against Tsarist Russia in the Caucasus, where Russian troops were numerically weaker and poorly supplied. Russia therefore asked Great Britain for help in this area on 2 January 1915.
