07 February
07 February
February 7 1497 – The Largest Bonfire of the Vanities Occurs in Florence, Italy
Decades after St. Bernardino di Siena opened the practice of burning “temptation-inducing” items to turn Catholic adherents back toward the faith, parishioners of Friar Girolamo Savonarola launched one of the…
February 7 1979 – Nazi ‘Angel of Death’ Dr. Josef Mengele dies
Dr. Josef, the SS physician who gained notoriety for his inhumane medical experimentation upon the inmates of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, died on February 7, 1979. Popularly known as…
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