2013 Event In Stockholm, Sweden, immigrant youths riot and burn over 100 vehicles 2013 Event Bush fires burn out of control in Tasmania, Australia, leaving thousands stranded 2011 Event A string of 35 fires in Hollywood burn within a 5-hour timeframe, causing at least $350,000 in damage 2010 Event Pastor Terry Jones announces that the Dove Outreach Center will not burn the Koran, 'not now, not ever' 2010 Event Pastor Terry Jones threatens to organize an international Burn a Koran Day in retaliation for plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero 2010 Event Economic losses mount and class action lawsuits are filed as the U.S. Coast Guard plans a controlled burn to remove spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster 2009 Event At a ceremony in eastern Shan State, Burma, authorities burn $93 million in seized narcotic drugs 1994 Event Ken Burn's "Baseball" premieres on PBS 1989 Event Supreme Court rules ok to burn U.S. flag as a political expression 1989 Event 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England 1988 Death Renato Salvatori, actor (Burn, Luna, 2 Women), dies 1987 Event Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in New York City 1977 Event Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (U.S.S.R.) 1975 Birthday Jolene Blalock, born in San Diego, California, actress, best known for playing role of Vulcan T'Pol in 'Star Trek: Enterprise', film 'Slow Burn' 1966 Event Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark 1965 Event At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada 1944 Event Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums 1943 Event Adm Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn and destroy; let nothing pass" 1942 Event Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing Heydrich 1928 Event 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva 1919 Event 23rd U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass 1918 Event Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse and burn, killing 604 1900 Event 4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks, New Jersey, 326 die 1886 Event 24 Christians burn to death in Namgongo Uganda 1885 Event Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes and businesses 1865 Event Evacuation of Charleston, South Carolina; Sherman's troops burn city 1864 Event Confederate plot to burn New York City, fails 1854 Event U.S. forces shell and burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua 1851 Event U.S. Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn 1834 Event London parliament catches fire; historic documents burn 1813 Event British burn Buffalo, New York during War of 1812 1601 Event Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome 1350 Event Orvieto city says it will behead and burn Jewish-Christian couples
