The Bath School disaster was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe in Bath Township, Michigan. The attacks killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults, and injured at least 58 other people. On the morning of May 18, 1927 – having previously murdered his wife at their farm – Kehoe set off almost simultaneous explosions at his home and at the Bath Consolidated School (pictured). His devices destroyed the farm's buildings and ripped through the north wing of the school. As rescuers began working at the school, Kehoe drove up to the schoolyard and set off dynamite inside his shrapnel-filled truck, killing himself and several others nearby. During the rescue and recovery efforts, searchers discovered 500 pounds (230 kg) of unexploded dynamite and pyrotol in the south wing of the school that had been set to detonate at the same time as the north wing explosions.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1926:
Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson was reportedly kidnapped near Venice Beach in Los Angeles before reappearing five weeks later in Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_kidnapping_of_Aimee_Semple_McPherson
1944:
The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Tatars
1980:
Mount St. Helens explosively erupted, killing approximately 57 people in southern Washington state, reducing hundreds of square miles to wasteland, and causing more than US$1 billion in damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens
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schlubby: (chiefly US, informal) Clumsy, oafish, or socially awkward; unattractive or unkempt. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schlubby
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,Some letter of that After- life to spell,And by and by my Soul returned to me,And answered, I Myself am Heav'n and Hell: Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill's Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerg'd from, shall so soon expire. --Omar Khayyám https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m