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A gunman at a
Connecticut
elementary
school killed 27
people,
including 18
children on
Friday. It is
among the
world's worst
mass shootings.
Here is a look at
some others:
- August 5,
2012: Army veteran Wade
Michael Page kills five men and
one woman and wounds three
other people, including a police
officer, before taking his own
life at the Sikh Temple of
Wisconsin outside Milwaukee.
- July 20, 2012: At least 12
people are killed when a
gunman enters an Aurora, Colo.,
movie theater, releases a
canister of gas and then opens
fire during opening night of the
Batman movie "The Dark Knight
Rises." James Holmes, a 24-year-
old former graduate student at
the University of Colorado, has
been charged in the deaths.
- March 11, 2012: Sixteen
Afghan villagers, including nine
children, are killed during a
predawn attack in which Army
prosecutors have charged Staff
Sgt. Robert Bales, 39.
- July 22, 2011: Confessed mass
killer Anders Behring Breivik kills
77 in Norway in twin attacks: a
bombing in downtown Oslo and
a shooting massacre at a youth
camp outside the capital. The
self-styled anti-Muslim militant
admitted both attacks.
- November 5, 2009: Thirteen
soldiers and civilians were killed
and more than two dozen
wounded when a gunman
walked into the Soldier
Readiness Processing Center at
Fort Hood, Texas, and opened
fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal
Hasan is charged with 13 counts
of premeditated murder and 32
counts of attempted
premeditated murder.
- April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov,
29, enters the prestigious
Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in
the capital, Baku, armed with an
automatic pistol and clips. He
kills 12 people before killing
himself as police close in.
- March 10, 2009: Michael
McLendon, 28, killed 10 people -
including his mother, four other
relatives, and the wife and child
of a local sheriff's deputy -
across two rural Alabama
counties. He then killed himself.
- September 23, 2008: Matti
Saari, 22, walks into a vocational
college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and
opens fire, killing 10 people and
burning their bodies with
firebombs before shooting
himself fatally in the head.
- November 7, 2007: After
revealing plans for his attack in
YouTube postings, 18-year-old
Pekka-Eric Auvinen fires kills
eight people at his high school
in Tuusula, Finland.
- April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho,
23, kills 32 people and himself
on Virginia Tech campus in
Blacksburg, Va.
- April 26, 2002: Robert
Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been
expelled from school in Erfurt,
Germany, kills 13 teachers, two
former classmates and
policeman, before committing
suicide.
- April 20, 1999: Students Eric
Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17,
opened fire at Columbine High
School in Littleton, Colo., killing
12 classmates and a teacher and
wounding 26 others before
killing themselves in the school's
library.
- April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant,
29, bursts into cafeteria in
seaside resort of Port Arthur in
Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20
people to death. Driving away,
he kills 15 others. He was
captured and imprisoned.
- March 13, 1996: Thomas
Hamilton, 43, kills 16
kindergarten children and their
teacher in elementary school in
Dunblane, Scotland, and then
kills himself.
- October 16, 1991: A deadly
shooting rampage took place in
Killeen, Texas, as George
Hennard opened fire at a Luby's
Cafeteria, killing 23 people
before taking his own life. 20
others were wounded in the
attack.
- June 18, 1990: James Edward
Pough shoots people at random
in a General Motors Acceptance
Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla.,
killing 10 and wounding four,
before killing himself.
- December 6, 1989: Marc
Lepine, 25, bursts into
Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique
college, shooting at women he
encounters, killing nine and then
himself.
- August 19, 1987: Michael Ryan,
27, kills 16 people in small
market town of Hungerford,
England, and then shoots
himself dead after being
cornered by police.
- July 12, 1976: Edward Charles
Allaway, a custodian in the
library of California State
University, Fullerton, fatally shot
seven fellow employees and
wounded two others.
- August 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill,
44, a postal worker who was
about to be fired, shoots 14
people at a post office in
Edmond, Okla. He then kills
himself.
- July 18, 1984: James Oliver
Huberty, an out-of-work security
guard, kills 21 people in a
McDonald's restaurant in San
Ysidro, Calif. A police
sharpshooter kills Huberty.
- August 1, 1966: Charles
Whitman opened fire from the
clock tower at the University of
Texas at Austin, killing 16 people
and wounding 31.
Connecticut
elementary
school killed 27
people,
including 18
children on
Friday. It is
among the
world's worst
mass shootings.
Here is a look at
some others:
- August 5,
2012: Army veteran Wade
Michael Page kills five men and
one woman and wounds three
other people, including a police
officer, before taking his own
life at the Sikh Temple of
Wisconsin outside Milwaukee.
- July 20, 2012: At least 12
people are killed when a
gunman enters an Aurora, Colo.,
movie theater, releases a
canister of gas and then opens
fire during opening night of the
Batman movie "The Dark Knight
Rises." James Holmes, a 24-year-
old former graduate student at
the University of Colorado, has
been charged in the deaths.
- March 11, 2012: Sixteen
Afghan villagers, including nine
children, are killed during a
predawn attack in which Army
prosecutors have charged Staff
Sgt. Robert Bales, 39.
- July 22, 2011: Confessed mass
killer Anders Behring Breivik kills
77 in Norway in twin attacks: a
bombing in downtown Oslo and
a shooting massacre at a youth
camp outside the capital. The
self-styled anti-Muslim militant
admitted both attacks.
- November 5, 2009: Thirteen
soldiers and civilians were killed
and more than two dozen
wounded when a gunman
walked into the Soldier
Readiness Processing Center at
Fort Hood, Texas, and opened
fire. Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal
Hasan is charged with 13 counts
of premeditated murder and 32
counts of attempted
premeditated murder.
- April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov,
29, enters the prestigious
Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in
the capital, Baku, armed with an
automatic pistol and clips. He
kills 12 people before killing
himself as police close in.
- March 10, 2009: Michael
McLendon, 28, killed 10 people -
including his mother, four other
relatives, and the wife and child
of a local sheriff's deputy -
across two rural Alabama
counties. He then killed himself.
- September 23, 2008: Matti
Saari, 22, walks into a vocational
college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and
opens fire, killing 10 people and
burning their bodies with
firebombs before shooting
himself fatally in the head.
- November 7, 2007: After
revealing plans for his attack in
YouTube postings, 18-year-old
Pekka-Eric Auvinen fires kills
eight people at his high school
in Tuusula, Finland.
- April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho,
23, kills 32 people and himself
on Virginia Tech campus in
Blacksburg, Va.
- April 26, 2002: Robert
Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been
expelled from school in Erfurt,
Germany, kills 13 teachers, two
former classmates and
policeman, before committing
suicide.
- April 20, 1999: Students Eric
Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17,
opened fire at Columbine High
School in Littleton, Colo., killing
12 classmates and a teacher and
wounding 26 others before
killing themselves in the school's
library.
- April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant,
29, bursts into cafeteria in
seaside resort of Port Arthur in
Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20
people to death. Driving away,
he kills 15 others. He was
captured and imprisoned.
- March 13, 1996: Thomas
Hamilton, 43, kills 16
kindergarten children and their
teacher in elementary school in
Dunblane, Scotland, and then
kills himself.
- October 16, 1991: A deadly
shooting rampage took place in
Killeen, Texas, as George
Hennard opened fire at a Luby's
Cafeteria, killing 23 people
before taking his own life. 20
others were wounded in the
attack.
- June 18, 1990: James Edward
Pough shoots people at random
in a General Motors Acceptance
Corp. office in Jacksonville, Fla.,
killing 10 and wounding four,
before killing himself.
- December 6, 1989: Marc
Lepine, 25, bursts into
Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique
college, shooting at women he
encounters, killing nine and then
himself.
- August 19, 1987: Michael Ryan,
27, kills 16 people in small
market town of Hungerford,
England, and then shoots
himself dead after being
cornered by police.
- July 12, 1976: Edward Charles
Allaway, a custodian in the
library of California State
University, Fullerton, fatally shot
seven fellow employees and
wounded two others.
- August 20, 1986: Pat Sherrill,
44, a postal worker who was
about to be fired, shoots 14
people at a post office in
Edmond, Okla. He then kills
himself.
- July 18, 1984: James Oliver
Huberty, an out-of-work security
guard, kills 21 people in a
McDonald's restaurant in San
Ysidro, Calif. A police
sharpshooter kills Huberty.
- August 1, 1966: Charles
Whitman opened fire from the
clock tower at the University of
Texas at Austin, killing 16 people
and wounding 31.