September 2, 1666 –
Thomas Farrinor forgot to put out his oven at the end of his shift, on this date.
Unfortunately, the resulting fire cost him his job as official baker to King Charles II of England and started the Great Fire of London. (Quite surprisingly, only six people ‘officially‘ were declared dead because of the fire. To remember the fire, the city of London erected a monument. Six people have committed suicide by jumping off of it, and two have fallen accidentally to their deaths. You might hear this fun fact repeated on tours or forums: more people have died from falling off the monument than died in the fire.
But it’s not true – more like several hundred and quite possibly several thousand; very poor people likely died in the fire, burnt so beyond recognition (and not on the ‘official radar‘) that their remains were not counted.
On the plus side, it burned out of control and destroyed four-fifths of London, thereby ending the Black Plague.
And so it goes
The Haus of Dcaligari 