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1. Tuesday 30th of April 1844 (x) — Writer, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau and his friend Edward Hoar accidentally set a fire that consumed 300 acres (1.2 km2) of Walden Woods.
   For years afterward Thoreau could hardly walk the streets of his hometown without hearing the epithet "woods burner."