2014 Event A grand jury in St. Louis County reaches the decision that police officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted in the shooting death of Ferguson teenager Michael Brown; the decision sparked protests, looting and businesses being burned to the ground in St. Louis, as well as protests across the U.S. 2013 Event The Rim Fire at Yosemite National Park, which burned over 371 square miles and is now 80% contained, is being blamed on a hunter's illegal campfire 2010 Event Entire villages are burned to the ground and 40,000 people flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of Congo 1984 Event Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire 1984 Event Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial 1962 Event Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia 1961 Event Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed and burned in Alabama 1954 Death Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31 1941 Event 200 Jewish Torahs are burned in Ukraine 1923 Birthday Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer, Burned Child 1914 Event Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing 1910 Birthday Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation 1907 Birthday Mascha Kaleko, born in Chrzanow, Austria, now Poland, writer, German language poet, first book 'Lyrisches Stenogrammheft' was burned in Nazi book burnings, wrote advertising copy while living in New York 1876 Event Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death 1864 Event Kingston, Georgia burned during Sherman's March to Sea 1815 Event Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols 1814 Event British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks 1808 Event Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa 1775 Event Portland, Maine burned by British 1732 Event 21 homosexuality burned in South Horn 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 1564 Death Christophorus Fabritius, Christoffel Smit, calvinist vicar, burned 1559 Event Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted 1559 Event Excavated corpse of heretic David Jorisz burned in Basel 1556 Event Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope 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 1555 Death Nicholas Ridley, English theologist/bishop of Rochester, burned 1553 Event Volumes of Talmud are burned 1553 Death Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake 1545 Death Pierre Brully, Peter Brulius, calvinist minister, burned to death 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 1527 Death Wendelmoet "Weyntjen" Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic 1525 Death Johannes Pistorius, Bakker, RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26 1525 Death John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake 1524 Death Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake 1524 Death Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine/Luthern minister, burned to death 1523 Death Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake 1523 Death John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake 1521 Event About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent 1520 Event Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant 1510 Event 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia 1498 Death Tomas de Torquemada, inquisitor who burned 10,000 people, dies 1492 Event 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany 1453 Event 41 Jewish martyrs burned at stake at Breslau 1431 Death Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19 1429 Death Jacquemart de Bleharies, Tournay "heretic", burned to death 1417 Death John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged and burned 1416 Event Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church 1416 Death Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church 1415 Death Jan Hus, burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany 1401 Death William Sawtree, 1st English religious martyr, burned in London 1393 Death Aimery Poitiers, French nobleman, burned at royal ball 1393 Death Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball 1393 Death Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball 1349 Event Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death 1349 Event 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses 1321 Event 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake 1242 Event 24 wagonloads of Talmudic books burned in Paris 155 Death Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested and burned at stake
