Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 8 May 1936

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Hamilton shot 16 children and one teacher dead and wounded another 15 with two 9mm Browning HP pistols and two Smith & Wesson M19 .357 Magnum revolvers before killing himself. The dead were 5-year-old Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale, 5-year-old Emma Elizabeth Crozier, 5-year-old Melissa Helen Currie, 5-year-old Charlotte Louise Dunn, 5-year-old Kevin Allan Hasell, 5-year-old Ross William Irvine, 5-year-old David Charles Kerr, 5-year-old Mhairi Isabel MacBeath, 45-year-old teacher Gwen Mayor, 6-year-old Brett McKinnon, 5-year-old Abigail Joanne McLennan, 5-year-old Emily Morton, 5-year-old Sophie Jane Lockwood North, 5-year-old John Petrie, 5-year-old Joanna Caroline Ross, 5-year-old Hannah Louise Scott and 5-year-old Megan Turner.
(13 March 1996)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 8th of May 1936 89 years ago
Historian and philosopher Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler dies of a heart attack at the age of 56 in München, Bayern, Germany.