Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 17 August 1962

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Hamilton shot 16 children and one teacher dead and wounded another 15 with two 9mm Browning HP pistols and two Smith & Wesson M19 .357 Magnum revolvers before killing himself. The dead were 5-year-old Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale, 5-year-old Emma Elizabeth Crozier, 5-year-old Melissa Helen Currie, 5-year-old Charlotte Louise Dunn, 5-year-old Kevin Allan Hasell, 5-year-old Ross William Irvine, 5-year-old David Charles Kerr, 5-year-old Mhairi Isabel MacBeath, 45-year-old teacher Gwen Mayor, 6-year-old Brett McKinnon, 5-year-old Abigail Joanne McLennan, 5-year-old Emily Morton, 5-year-old Sophie Jane Lockwood North, 5-year-old John Petrie, 5-year-old Joanna Caroline Ross, 5-year-old Hannah Louise Scott and 5-year-old Megan Turner.
(13 March 1996)

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BirthFactDeath (-) Friday 17th of August 1962 64 years, 2 months and 1 days ago
Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter bleeds to death after being shot in the right hip by border guards 26-year-old Rolf Friedrich and 20-year-old Erich Schreiber at the age of 18 in Zimmerstraße, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Fechter was left bleeding on the spot for over an hour in full view of western onlookers.