CZECH REPUBLIC: Celebrating A Velvet Revolution... Based On A Rumor.

NYTIMES/
"Thousands of Czechs marched through the streets to the sound of wailing sirens and the growls of police dogs, replicating a nonviolent student march on Nov. 17, 1989, in which the police rounded on demonstrators and rumors spread that a 19-year-old university student named Martin Smid had been brutally killed. Scores had indeed been violently beaten. But no one, in fact, had died."