Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 March 1904

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Before Saari shot and killed ten people with a Walther P22 semi-automatic pistol, doused a classroom with petrol and set it on fire. At some point he also threw a Molotov cocktail into a language laboratory. Saari fired a total of nearly 200 shots. The highest number of shots inflicted to a single victim was twenty. Saari left behind two handwritten notes in his school dormitory stating that his motive for the shooting was "I hate the human race".
(23 September 2008)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 14th of March 1904 120 years ago
32-year-old serial killer Ludwig Tessnow aka The Mad Carpenter his death sentence is confirmed at an appeal hearing in Reichsgericht, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany. Tessnow was sentenced to death in 1902 despite the opinion of six psychiatrists that he was insane.