Upon the conclusion of Bell's funeral, "every phone on the continent of North America was silenced in honor of the man who had given to mankind the means for direct communication at a distance". (2 August 1922)
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Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
Kauhajoki, Länsi-Suomen Lääni, Finland.
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Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 (-) — School shooter Matti Saari commits suicide by a shot in the head. Before Saari shot and killed ten people with a Walther P22 semi-automatic pistol, doused a classroom with petrol and set it on fire. At some point he also threw a Molotov cocktail into a language laboratory. Saari fired a total of nearly 200 shots. The highest number of shots inflicted to a single victim was twenty. Saari left behind two handwritten notes in his school dormitory stating that his motive for the shooting was "I hate the human race".