2014 Event Bruce Levenson will sell his stake in the Atlanta Hawks after stating earlier this week that he sent a racially biased email two years ago; Levenson is freely following the path of Don Sterling, who was forced to sell the Clippers for similar reasons 2012 Event Yahoo! sells off its stake in Alibaba Group for $7.1 billion 1992 Death Georgia Brown, British singer and actress (Love at Stake), dies at 58 1969 Event Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar 1639 Death Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake 1632 Death Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake 1600 Death Giordano Bruno, advocate of Copernican theory, burned at stake 1583 Death Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake 1556 Death Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, burned at stake at 66 1555 Death Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 1553 Death Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, burns at stake for heresy 1553 Death Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake 1538 Death Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake 1529 Event 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake 1529 Death Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake 1528 Death Patrick Hamilton, Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake 1525 Death John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake 1524 Death Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake 1523 Death Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake 1523 Death John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake 1517 Event 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands 1510 Event 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia 1492 Event 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany 1453 Event 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau 1321 Event 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake 155 Death Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested and burned at stake