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Purdy fired 106 rounds with a Norinco Type 56 AK-47 semi-automatic rifle in three minutes killing five predominantly Southeast Asian refugee schoolchildren and wounding 32 others before turning a Taurus PT92 pistol on himself. The victims were 9-year-old Rathanar Or, 8-year-old Ram Chun, 6-year-old Sokhim An, 8-year-old Oeun Lim and 6-year-old Thuy Tran.
(17 January 1989)
There are 3366 births, 3929 deaths, 1121 murders, 497 disasters and 2076 other events about 5724 people in 6429 places until today.
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BirthFactDeath (x) Monday 21st of February 1848 177 years ago |
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30-year-old economist and revolutionary communist Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish the Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei in London, Greater London, United Kingdom. |
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