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

2012 Event - After a strike over working conditions, the world's biggest platinum producer, Anglo Platinum Limited, fires 12,000 people in South Africa

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

2011 Event - In Chicago, the Chicago Cubs baseball team fires their manager, Mike Quade

1995 Event - CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung

1994 Event - Lesotho king Letsie II fires premier Ntsu Mokhehle

1993 Event - Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died

1993 Event - President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions

1993 Event - 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 Event - Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)

1991 Event - Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel

1990 Event - Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula

1990 Event - CBS fires sportscaster Brent Mussburger

1989 Event - Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry

1988 Event - President Zia ul-Haq fires government/disbands parliament in Pakistan

1988 Event - North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed

1987 Event - Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba

1986 Event - Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg

1982 Event - Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building

1981 Event - President Regan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers

1981 Event - Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II

1980 Event - Guinee-Bissau premier Vieira fires president Luis Cabral

1979 Event - 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 Event - Portuguese President Eanes fires premier Soares

1976 Event - Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping

1974 Event - Air Force fires 1st ICBM

1973 Event - U.S. president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox

1973 Event - Columbia Records fires president Clive Davis for misappropriating $100,000 in funds, Davis will start Arista records

1972 Event - In Game 2 of ALCS, A's Bert Campaneris fires his bat at Det pitcher

1971 Death - Catherine Calvert, actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80

1970 Event - UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist

1967 Event - 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)

1967 Event - Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives

1966 Event - Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution

1964 Event - North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin

1961 Event - Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus

1960 Event - President Kasavubu fires premier Lumumba of Congo

1959 Event - WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal

1957 Event - U.S.S.R. fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov

1953 Event - Polish government fires/imprisons Cardinal Wyszynski

1951 Event - Egyptian army fires on British troops

1951 Event - President Truman fires General Douglas McArthur

1951 Death - Ivor Novello, British writer (Keep the Home Fires Burning), dies at 58

1950 Event - Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager

1947 Event - Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States)

1947 Birthday - Earlie Fires, jockey, Hialeah Park

1942 Event - Churchill fires General Auchinlek as Middle-East commandant

1942 Event - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California

1941 Event - U.S. destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652

1940 Event - Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer

1940 Event - AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees

1940 Event - Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)

1925 Event - British warship fires on Hong Kong harbor strikers

1919 Event - Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India

1916 Event - Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov

1915 Birthday - Red Adair, oilman, fought oil fires in Kuwait

1915 Event - Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos

1914 Event - German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik

1912 Event - Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia

1904 Event - Dutch newspaper Volk fires gay journalist Jacob de Cock

1894 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg

1894 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg

1894 Event - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die

1890 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck

1879 Event - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers

1873 Event - Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I

1872 Event - Phillip W Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires

1830 Event - Dutch King Willem I fires him displeasing parliament members

1824 Event - Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)

1812 Event - Napoleon occupies Moscow and fires start (fire extinguished on the 19th)

1792 Event - King Louis XVI fires French government

1783 Event - English king George III fires government of Portland

1757 Event - English king George II fires minister William Pitt, Sr.

1732 Event - VOC fires Netherlands-Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare

1714 Event - English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley

1688 Event - King James II fires premier Robert Spencer

1674 Event - Emperor Leopold I fires chancellor Furst Wenzel Lobkowitz

1673 Event - British king Charles II fires earl of Shaftesbury

1659 Event - English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals

1630 Event - Ferdinand II fires supreme commander Albrecht von Wallenstein

1572 Event - Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands

1524 Event - Pope Clemens VII fires Netherlands inquisitor-general French Van de Holly

1205 Event - Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne

1076 Event - Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII













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