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2013 Event - Bush fires burn out of control in Tasmania, Australia, leaving thousands stranded

2011 Event - A string of 35 fires in Hollywood burn within a 5-hour timeframe, causing at least $350,000 in damage

2010 Event - Pastor Terry Jones announces that the Dove Outreach Center will not burn the Koran, 'not now, not ever'

2010 Event - Pastor Terry Jones threatens to organize an international Burn a Koran Day in retaliation for plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero

2010 Event - Economic losses mount and class action lawsuits are filed as the U.S. Coast Guard plans a controlled burn to remove spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster

2009 Event - At a ceremony in eastern Shan State, Burma, authorities burn $93 million in seized narcotic drugs

1994 Event - Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS

1989 Event - Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression

1989 Event - 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England

1988 Death - Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies

1987 Event - Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in New York City

1977 Event - Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (U.S.S.R.)

1975 Birthday - Jolene Blalock, born in San Diego, California, actress, best known for playing role of Vulcan T'Pol in 'Star Trek: Enterprise', film 'Slow Burn'

1966 Event - Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark

1965 Event - At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada

1944 Event - Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums

1943 Event - Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass"

1942 Event - Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich

1928 Event - 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva

1919 Event - 23rd U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass

1918 Event - Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604

1900 Event - 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks, New Jersey, 326 die

1886 Event - 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda

1885 Event - Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes and businesses

1865 Event - Evacuation of Charleston, South Carolina; Sherman's troops burn city

1864 Event - Confederate plot to burn New York City, fails

1854 Event - U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua

1851 Event - U.S. Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn

1834 Event - London parliament catches fire; historic documents burn

1813 Event - British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812

1601 Event - Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome

1350 Event - Orvieto city says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples













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