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Notable School Shootings in History  
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Has another tragic school shooting occurred? Unfortunately, it's not the first, and won't be the last. Here are some other notable school shootings in U.S. and world history.

	Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, Virgina, United States; April 16, 2007 - 21 dead (including shooter), 20 wounded
	Enoch Brown school massacre - Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States; July 26, 1764
	Bath School disaster - Bath, Michigan, United States; May 18, 1927
	Poe Elementary School Attack - Houston, Texas, United States; September 15, 1959
	Cologne School Massacre - Cologne, Germany; June 11, 1964
	University of Texas at Austin Tower Massacre - Austin, Texas, United States; August 1, 1966
	Avivim school bus massacre, Israel by Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP); 1970
	Kent State shootings - Kent, Ohio, United States; May 4, 1970
	Ma'alot massacre, Israel by DFLP (see [2]); 1974
	California State University, Fullerton Library Massacre - Fullerton, California, United States; July 12, 1976
	École Polytechnique Massacre - Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 1989
	Stockton Massacre - Stockton, California, United States, 1989
	University of Iowa shooting - Iowa City, Iowa, United States; 1991
	Concordia University massacre - Montreal, Quebec, Canada; August 24, 1992
	Richland High School shooting - Lynnville, Tennessee, United States; November 15, 1995.
	Frontier Junior High shooting - Moses Lake, Washington, United States; February 2, 1996
	Dunblane massacre - Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom; March 13, 1996
	Sanaa massacre - Sanaa, Yemen; 1997
	Pearl High School shooting, Pearl, Mississippi, United States; October 1, 1997
	Heath High School shooting, West Paducah, Kentucky, United States; December 1, 1997
	Jonesboro massacre - Craighead County (near Jonesboro), Arkansas, United States; March 24, 1998
	Columbine High School massacre - Jefferson County (near Denver and Littleton), Colorado, United States; April 20, 1999
	Santana High School - Santee, CA (near San Diego, California)
	Osaka school massacre - Ikeda, Japan; 2001
	Erfurt massacre - Erfurt, Germany; 2002
	Rocori High School shootings - Cold Spring, Minnesota; 2003
	Beslan school hostage crisis - Beslan, Russia; 2004
	Red Lake High School massacre - Red Lake, Minnesota, United States; 2005
	Dawson College shooting - Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2006
	Amish school shooting - Nickel Mines, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States; 2006
	Platte Canyon High School shooting - Bailey, Colorado, United States; 2006
	SuccessTech Cleveland High School - 4 people shot at a Cleveland local high school (including the shooter)
	Northern Illinois University - DeKalb, Illinois - February 15, 2008 - killed five people before turning the gun on himself; 16 others wounded

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