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1994 Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1944 Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums

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

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

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

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

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

1900 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die

1886 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda

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

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

1864 Confederate plot to burn New York City, fails

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

1851 US Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn

1834 London parliament catches fire; historic documents burn

1813 British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812

1601 Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome

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



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