Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 August 1997

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Lu killed 47-year-old professor Christoph K. Goertz, 44-year-old chairman Dwight R. Nicholson, assistant professor Robert Alan Smith, 27-year-old fellow graduate student Linhua Shan, 56-year-old assistant vice president for academic affairs T. Anne Cleary and seriously wounded 23-year-old student employee Miya Rodolfo-Sioson before committing suicide. Lu was infuriated because his dissertation 'Study of the "Critical Ionization Velocity" Effect by Particle-in-Cell Simulation' did not receive the prestigious D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize. In the months prior to the shooting Lu wrote five letters explaining the reasons for his planned actions.
(1 November 1991)

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BirthFactDeath (x) Thursday 14th of August 1997 22 years ago
29-year-old serial killer Sipho Thwala aka The Phoenix Strangler aka The Phantom Sniper aka The Canefield Killer is arrested by heavily armed policemen on suspicion of killing at least 19 young women in the Besters squatter camp in Phoenix, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.