A Nigerian student, Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab, forever known as the underwear bomber, tried to ignite himself on an airplane on Christmas Day after, staggeringly, getting past security despite having been previously flagged (an unacceptable internal administrative mistake, revealing a lack of communication between security agencies).
McVeigh added more explosives to the driver's side of the cargo bay, which he could ignite (killing himself in the process) at close range with his Glock 21 pistol in case the primary fuses failed.
He himself ignited that revolt by trying to steal an election.
That Tunisian fruit vendor who burned himself to death ignited revolt across the Arab world.
Three months after a Tunisian fruit vendor set himself aflame and ignited a political firestorm across the Arab world, the president is trumping the trailblazer.
But when he did so last month, the nation took notice: He is a rabbi, ultra-Orthodox himself, whose outspokenness ignited a fresh, and fierce, debate about the rapid growth of the ultra-religious in Israel.
Her death followed that of a 42-year-old father of three, who doused himself with fuel and ignited a suicidal blaze last Thursday in the central town of Gafsa; he succumbed to his wounds this week.
In 2009 an unemployed man ignited petrol on a bus, killing himself and 26 others.
But it was Mr. Morsi's dictatorial edict placing himself above the law last month that ignited this crisis.
In October 1973, he was painting a train with his best friend, who called himself Ali, when a fluke spark ignited the aerosol cans, severely burning Ali.
