Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 28 December 2004

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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 (-) Tuesday 28th of December 2004 17 years ago
Writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher and political activist Susan Sontag born as Susan Rosenblatt dies of complications of myelodysplastic syndrome which had evolved into acute myelogenous leukemia at the age of 71 in New York City, New York, United States.