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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
schlubby:
(chiefly US, informal) Clumsy, oafish, or socially awkward; unattractive
or unkempt.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/schlubby>
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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>
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