2014 Event The 'New York Times' fires its first female executive editor Jill Abramson after three years in the position; Abramson has been replaced by Dean Baquet, the newspaper's first African-American executive editor 2013 Event The world's first plastic gun, produced by a 3-D printer by Defense Distributed fires successfully in Austin, Texas. Security officials fear plastic weapons would not be detected at airport screenings 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
