Ryan first fatally shot his mother and 15 others with a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle M1 carbine and a Beretta 92FS in a shooting spree. The dead were: 35-year-old Susan Godfrey, his neighbours Roland and Sheila Mason, 51-year-old Kenneth Clements, Roger Brereton, George White, his neighbour Abdul Rahman Khan, his mother Dorothy Ryan, Francis Butler, Marcus Barnard, 67-year-old Douglas Wainwright, 51-year-old Eric Vardy, 22-year-old Sandra Hill, Jack and Myrtle Gibbs and 34-year-old Ian Playle. (19 August 1987)
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Monday 18th of September 1961 (-) — Second Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a Douglas DC-6B plane crash. Hammarskjöld and fifteen others perished in the crash. The circumstances of the incident are still not clear. There is some recent evidence that suggest the plane was shot down.