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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 General 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 General 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 Netherlands-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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