February 17

If you look around, you will notice that there are many dangerous jobs: ironworker, commercial fisherman, bridge painter, test pilot, mercenary soldier (or any soldier), and field agents for the Posse Comitatus are but a few. To that list, you might want to add Philosopher. On the 17th in 1600, Giordano Bruno was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake at Campo de' Fiori in Rome.