** Beltane Fire Festival ( Calton Hill, Edinburgh )

** Fire ( 7. 4-6 )

** Illuminati: Bavarian Fire Drill-all-card expansion for Deluxe Illuminati

** Fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly 3 years.

** Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, from Mecca ; 343 die.

** Fire breaks out at the Pasar Anyar shopping centre in Bogor, West Java.

** Fire breaks out in the Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil ; 177 die, 293 are injured, 11 die later of their injuries.

** WWII: " Second Great Fire of London " – Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1, 500 fires.

** Fire at a 22-story hotel in Seoul, South Korea kills 158 people.

** Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word " higher " from their # 1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.

** Fire breaks out in the World Trade Center.

** Fire engulfs a wooden stand at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England, during a football match, killing 56.

** The first full-length episode of The Simpsons, " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ", is shown on Fox.

** Fire and forget Millimeter wave radar seeker coupled with Inertial guidance

** Reign of Fire ( 2002 )

** The Wandering Fire ( 1986 ), winner of the 1987 Aurora Award.

** C J Sansom's novel Dark Fire

** Martin County Fire Rescue Division

** Vol 5: Earth, Water, Air, Fire ( with Wes Kublick, 1998 )

** Nagi, the reincarnation of Naga from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo ~ Hikari to Kage no Eiyū ~

** Grace Under Fire ( 2011 ), a Hong Kong television series about Wong Fei-hung's wife Mok Kwai-lan.

** Great Forks Fire Online museum exhibit that documents the 1951 fire in Forks, Washington, which destroyed 38, 000 acres ( 150 km < sup > 2 </ sup >).

** February 24 Fire Department in Buckley was established.

** Battle of Pavia — Aurelian destroys the retreating Alemanni army.

** A cyclone in the Palk Strait destroys the Indian town of Dhanushkodi, killing 1800 people.

** One of 4 bombs detonated in Lusaka, Zambia, destroys the Angolan Embassy.

** Halifax Explosion: Two freighters collide in Halifax Harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia and cause a huge explosion that kills at least 1, 963 people, injures 9, 000 and destroys part of the city ( until the Trinity nuclear test, the biggest manmade explosion in recorded history ).

** Albert Guay affair: A dynamite bomb destroys Canadian Pacific Airlines Douglas DC-3 in Quebec.

** A tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake destroys 10 villages in Papua New Guinea, killing an estimated 1, 500, leaving 2, 000 more unaccounted for and thousands more homeless.

** A large Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb destroys the forensic laboratories in Belfast.

** Rioting Maze Prison inmates cause a fire that destroys most of the camp.

** An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.

** An Irish Republican Army bomb destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.

** The One Meridian Plaza fire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania kills 3 firefighters and destroys 8 floors of the building.

** A tornado destroys parts of Itu, a city in southeastern Brazil, killing 16 and leaving 176 injured.

** The Oakland Hills firestorm kills 25 and destroys 3, 469 homes and apartments.

** Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives, and destroys 2, 642. 7 square kilometres ( 653, 025. 4 acres ) of land.

** An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings.

** Anglo-Spanish War: Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

** May – Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, co-consul with Julius Caesar, destroys Caelius's magistrate's chair on his tribunal.

** Sir George Rooke fails to take Cadiz, but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish warships.

** destroys Punic and Achean capitols: Carthage and Corinth

** August 24, An eruption of Vesuvius destroys much of Pompeii and Herculaneum

** A single Japanese bomber destroys 11 U. S. Navy PV-1 Ventura patrol aircraft parked at Tacloban Airfield on Leyte.

** Muhammad II – great-grandson of Abd al-Rahman III – deposes Hisham II as Caliph and destroys Al-Mansur's palace complex of al-Madinat al-Zahira near Córdoba.

** Screened and treated in a manner that destroys viruses.