Columbine High School Shooting – 1999

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The Columbine massacre was one of the deadliest school shootings in US history, its circumstances and aftermath inflicting untold trauma…

Bihar Train Accident – 1981

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One of the positive legacies bequeathed to India by the Raj (as the British rule there was known) was the…

Heaven’s Gate Cult Suicide – 1997

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In March 1997 in a house in California police found 39 bodies lying neatly in their bunk beds, their heads…

Dunblane – 1996

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There were 29 small children in the gymnasium of Dunblane Primary School when Thomas Hamilton walked in and opened fire…

Genocide in Srebrenica – 1995

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The euphoria of independence didn’t last long in most Balkan countries. As the former Yugoslavia fragmented, age-old sectarian, ethnic and…

The Solar Temple Killings – 1994

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Later, when the authorities pieced it together, it became obvious that the three mass killings were planned as one. The…

Waco Siege – 1993

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In 1990, when he took control of the Branch Davidians religious cult, David Koresh believed he was an angel with…

National Bosses Day at Luby’s – 1991

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Luby’s Cafeteria was a popular restaurant on US Highway 190 at Killeen, Texas, right next to America’s biggest military base,…

Batticaloa – 1990

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The uneasy relationship between Tamils and Sinhala has persisted for centuries, with cyclical exchanges of political power effected by means…

Tiananmen Square – 1989

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Truthfully, what the world remembers best about Tiananmen Square in 1989 is one of the 20th century’s defining images: ‘Tankman’.…