Today In History (February 17 1600)

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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1600: On his way to be burned at the stake for "heresy" at Campo de Fiori in Rome, the philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him from continuing to speak.