Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Springfield, Oregon, United States || Thurston High School

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

I made a metal mask which was fixed to my head. While Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven read a text about willpower, I pulled myself forward with the mask by a rope. The sound of my breathing was electronically amplified through a throat-microphone.
(16 March 1987)

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar 1991

There are 3359 births, 3911 deaths, 1122 murders, 494 disasters and 2072 other events about 5713 people in 6416 places until today.

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Thurston High School

333 North 58th Street, Springfield, Oregon, United States.

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Thursday 21st of May 1998 (x) — School shooter Kip Kinkel kills two students and leaves 25 injured in a shooting spree
The day before Kinkel was expelled from Thurston High School for being in possession of a loaded, stolen handgun. Back home he shot his 59-year-old father William and 57-year-old mother Faith to death. He went back to the school armed with two hunting knives, his rifle, a 9x19mm Glock 19 pistol, and a .22-caliber Ruger MK II pistol and 1.127 rounds of ammunition.