Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 23 September 2008

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Bruce was booked for violation of Section 205 of the Police Code (“depicting or distributing obscene matter for the sake of prurient appeal”). Bruce made bail and was back at the Jazz Workshop for the second show that same night, where he related his arrest and booking to a standing-room audience.
(4 October 1961)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 16 years ago The Highest Number Was Twenty
School shooter Matti Juhani Saari commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 22 in Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences, Kauhajoki, Länsi-Suomen Lääni, Finland. 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".