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On this day, June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burned himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_11• 1963 – Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam.