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Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname, The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the ...
The 1804 Haiti massacre, also referred to as the Haitian genocide,[1][2][3]was carried out by Afro-Haitiansoldiers, mostly former slaves, under orders from Jean-Jacques Dessalinesagainst much of the remaining European population in Haiti, which mainly included French people. [4][5]The Haitian Revolutiondefeated the French army in November 1803 ...
The Stockton schoolyard shooting (also known as the Cleveland Elementary School shooting and the Cleveland School massacre) was an act of mass murder which occurred at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, California, on January 17, 1989. The perpetrator, 24-year-old Patrick Purdy, shot and killed five children and wounded thirty-one others ...
Guns killed 2,526 children between the ages of 1 and 17, an average of seven youths slain a day, according to an analysis of 2022 data released by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence ...
On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee when 28-year-old Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man and former student of the school, [5] [6] [7] killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by ...
Child gun deaths in the United States have hit a record high, according to a new study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's ...
Gun violence is a term of political, economic and sociological interest referring to the tens of thousands of annual firearms-related deaths and injuries occurring in the United States. [ 2 ] In 2016, a U.S. male aged 15–24 was 70 times more likely to be killed with a gun than a French male or British male.
Updated September 16, 2024 at 5:00 PM. Firearms were the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the United States for the third consecutive year, and homicides accounted for the ...