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Fires
1995
CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
1994
Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle
1993
Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1993
President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1993
General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires
1991
Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1991
Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel
1990
Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1990
CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger
1989
Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
1988
President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan
1988
North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1987
Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1986
Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg
1982
Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building
1981
President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers
1981
Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1980
Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral
1979
Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in U.S. Tennis Open quarterfinals
1978
Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares
1976
Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping
1974
Air Force fires 1st ICBM
1973
U.S. president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox
1973
Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records
1972
In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher
1971
Catherine Calvert, actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80
1970
UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist
1967
43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
1967
Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives
1966
Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution
1964
North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
1961
Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
1960
President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo
1959
WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1957
U.S.S.R. fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
1953
Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski
1951
Egyptian army fires on British troops
1951
President Truman fires Gen Douglas McArthur
1951
Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58
1950
Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager
1947
Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)
1947
Earlie Fires, jockey, Hialeah Park
1942
Churchill fires Gen Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant
1942
Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California
1941
U.S. destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
1940
Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1940
AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940
Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)
1925
British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers
1919
Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India
1916
Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov
1915
Red Adair, oilman, fought oil fires in Kuwait
1915
Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1914
German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
1912
Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia
1904
Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock
1894
German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1894
German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg
1894
Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
1890
German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
1879
Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers
1873
Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I
1872
Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires
1830
Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members
1824
Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
1812
Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)
1792
King Louis XVI fires French government
1783
English king George III fires government of Portland
1757
English king George II fires minister William Pitt, Sr.
1732
VOC fires Neth-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
1714
English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley
1688
King James II fires premier Robert Spencer
1674
Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst Wenzel Lobkowitz
1673
British king Charles II fires earl of Shaftesbury
1659
English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals
1630
Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein
1572
Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands
1524
Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-general French Van de Holly
1205
Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
1076
Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII
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