April–May 1909
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15,000–30,000
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January 1923
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8
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Several days of violence by white mobs, ranging in size up to
400 people, resulted in the deaths of six blacks and two whites and the
destruction of the town of Rosewood, which was abandoned after the incident.[136]
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February 14, 1929
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August 1933
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Arabs and Kurds killed 3,000 Assyrian men women and children.[146] The massacre amongst other
things included rape, cars running over children and bayoneting pregnant
women and children.[146]
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March 26, 1942
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~150
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August 1, 1966
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|
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16
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University of Texas was
the site of a massacre by Charles Whitman, who killed his mother and
wife at their homes before killing 14 and wounding 32 others at the
University atop the university tower before the police killed him.
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November 18, 1978
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|
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918
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[[A religious cult originally based in San Francisco flees to a
jungle clearing in Guyana South America to avoid "persecution", and
then stages a mass-murder-suicide event via drinking poison mixed into grape-flavored
Kool-aid after killing American Congressional and news media visitors who
arrive to inspect the area.
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July 18, 1984
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|
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21
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Gunman James Oliver Huberty killed 21 people in a McDonald's
restaurant before being fatally shot by a SWAT team
sniper.[285][286][287]
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August 19, 1987
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December 6, 1989
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|
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14
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Marc Lépine, claiming to fight feminism, shot and killed 14
female students of the École Polytechnique de Montréal and wounded 14 other
people before turning his gun on himself. The event led to stricter gun
control laws[307] and changes in police
tactical response to shootings in Canada.[308]
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November 13, 1990
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|
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13
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Lone gunman David Malcolm Gray began shooting indiscriminately
at people, killing 13 people before being killed by police himself, allegedly
after a dispute with his next door neighbor. It remains New Zealands
deadliest criminal shooting.[317][318][319][320]
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October 16, 1991
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|
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22
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George Jo Hennard drove his pickup truck into a Luby's Cafeteria
and shot and killed 22 people, wounded another 20 and then committed suicide
by shooting himself.[321][322][323][324][325]
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January 8, 1993
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7
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Seven people were murdered at the Brown's Chicken and Pasta in
Palatine[337]
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April 19, 1993
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|
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76
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February 25, 1994
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|
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29
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Baruch Goldstein opens
fire with an assault rifle killing 29 Muslims and wounding 150 at prayer in
the Ibrahimi Mosque before being subdued and beaten to death.[355][356]
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March 28, 1994
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19
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June 18, 1994
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6
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January 22, 1995
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|
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March 13, 1996
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A gunman opened fire in a primary school, killing sixteen
children and one teacher before killing himself.[381][382][383]
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April 29, 1996
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March 26, 1997
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39
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A UFO religious cult called "Heaven's Gate" becomes
convinced that an alien spaceship is following the Hale-Bop Comet as it
passes close to Earth, and the spaceship is here to pick up
("rescue") the souls of the cult if they die while the comet and
spaceship are close enough for their souls to make the difficult spiritual
journey to the ship. Some members volunteer to be "humanely"
murdered while others commit suicide.
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April 20, 1999
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|
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July, 1999
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
|
Brokerage massacre
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12
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A gunman
killed nine people at two brokerages in Atlanta, after apparently killing his
wife and two children. He committed suicide five hours later.
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June 2001
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Nepal
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Royal family massacre
|
10
|
Eight members
of the Nepalese Royal family were killed in a palace massacre by Crown Prince
Dipendra who later turned a gun on himself and died few days later. His
youngest brother also died later raising the death toll to 10.
|
April 26, 2002
|
Erfurt, eastern Germany
|
Gutenberg
Gymnasium massacre
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17
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In Erfurt, eastern Germany,
19-year-old Robert Steinhauser opened fire after saying he was not going to
take a math test. He killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two pupils and a
policeman at the Gutenberg Gymnasium, before killing himself.
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October, 2002
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Washington DC area
|
Sniper terror
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10
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John Muhammad and Lee Malvo
killed 10 people in sniper-style shooting deaths that terrorized the
Washington, D.C., area.
|
March 5, 2005
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|
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8
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Brothers Sylvester and Gavin Beukes murder the owners' couple of
farm Kareeboomvloer and execute all witnesses, including two
children.[431] The motive was revenge for
a previous theft charge laid by the farm owner.[432]
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March 25, 2006
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|
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6
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28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff entered a rave afterparty in the southeast
part of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood and opened fire, killing six and
wounding two, before committing suicide.[435][citation needed]
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April 16, 2007
|
|
|
32
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Gunman Seung-Hui Cho,
killed 32 people and wounded many others[436] before committing suicide. The massacre is the deadliest peacetime
shooting incident by a single gunman in United States history, on or off a
school campus.[437]
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November 2, 2007
|
Near Helsinki, Finland
|
Jokela High
School massacre
|
9
|
Pekka-Eric
Auvinen killed six fellow students, the school nurse, the principal and
himself with a handgun.
|
September 23, 2008
|
Kauhajoki in
northwest Finland
|
Vocational
school massacre
|
11
|
Student Matti
Saari opened fire in a vocational school in Kauhajoki in northwest Finland,
killing nine other students and one male staff member before killing himself.
|
March 11, 2009
|
Near
Stuttgart, Germany
|
School
massacre
|
16
|
A 17-year-old
gunman dressed in combat gear killed nine students and three teachers at a
school near Stuttgart. He also killed one other person at a nearby clinic. He
was later killed in a shoot-out with police. Two additional passers-by were
killed and two policemen seriously injured, bringing the death toll to 16
including the gunman.
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November 5, 2009
|
|
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13
|
Gunman Malik Nadal Hasan,
a Major in the U.S. Army, killed 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounded at
least 30 on the base at Ft. Hood. Initial reports indicate Hassan was upset
at being deployed to Iraq.[439][440][441][442][443][444]
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June 2, 2010
|
Cumbria County, Britain
|
Town massacre
|
13
|
Gunman Derrick
Bird opened fire on people in towns across the rural county of Cumbria.
Twelve people were killed and 11 injured. Bird also killed himself.
|
January 8, 2011
|
|
|
6
|
|
April 9, 2011
|
Alphen aan den
Rijn, Netherlands
|
Ridderhof
Mall massacre
|
7
|
Tristan van
der Vlis opened fire in the Ridderhof mall in Alphen aan den Rijn, south of
Amsterdam, killing six before turning the gun on himself.
|
July 22, 2011
|
|
|
69
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One man, Anders Behring
Breivik, went to the island of Utøya on July 22, 2011, right after
the devastating bomb in Oslo. Wearing a fake police
uniform, he shot and killed 69 youths at the annual labour youth party, and
injured several more. It is still unknown how long the massacre lasted.
According to police logs, it took an hour from the first calls until the
response team arrested him. The defenseless people had nowhere to run. Many
tried to swim away from the island to shore, some made it, and some did not.[451]
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December 13, 2011
|
Liege,
Belgium
|
Central Square massacre
|
5
|
Gunman Nordine
Armani killed three people, including a 17-month-old toddler, wounding 121 in
a central square in the eastern city of Liege, before shooting himself. The
next day Belgian investigators found the body of a woman in warehouse used by
the gunman raising the death toll, including the killer, to five.
|
May 25, 2012
|
|
|
108
|
Approximately 108 people were killed with knives in the Syrian
town of Houla. Approximately 49 children, 34 women
and another 25 men were among the victims.[457]
|
July 20, 2012
|
|
|
12
|
Twelve people were killed and 58 others were injured when a
gunman opened fire in a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, during the midnight
premier of The Dark Knight
Rises film. A 24 year old male, James Holmes, was
arrested and charged with the killings.[458]
|
December 14, 2012
|
|
|
26
|
Twenty children and six adults, including the perpetrator, were
killed in a shooting attack at a primary school in the US state of
Connecticut.[459]
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