Mathew Charles Lamb (1948–1976) was a Canadian spree killer. Seventeen days after his release from jail in June 1966, Lamb took a shotgun from his uncle's house and went on a shooting spree around his home-town of Windsor, Ontario, killing two strangers and wounding two more. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity in January 1967, and so avoided Canada's mandatory death penalty for capital murder, but was committed for an indefinite time in psychiatric care. He displayed a profound recovery over the course of six years at Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre's maximum security Oak Ridge unit. The Executive Council of Ontario released Lamb in early 1973 on the condition that he spend a year under the supervision of Dr Elliot Barker, his long-time psychiatrist at Oak Ridge. With Barker's encouragement, Lamb volunteered for the Rhodesian Security Forces in late 1973. He served with distinction in the Rhodesian Light Infantry and Special Air Service until he was killed in action on 7 November 1976, soon after his promotion to lance-corporal. He received what Newsweek called "a hero's funeral" in the Rhodesian capital, Salisbury, before his ashes were returned to Windsor. (more...)
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1693:
An intensity XI earthquake, the most powerful in Italian history, struck the island of Sicily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693_Sicily_earthquake
1879:
British forces under Lord Chelmsford invaded Zululand without authorisation by the British Government, opening the Anglo-Zulu War. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zulu_War
1923:
Troops from France and Belgium invaded the Ruhr Area to force the German Weimar Republic to pay its reparations in the aftermath of World War I. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr
1946:
Enver Hoxha, First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, declared the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha
1986:
The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at the time the longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge in the world, opened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Leo_Hielscher_Bridges
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