On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fired their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another. The tragedy was a watershed
moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Vietnam, and
further galvanized the anti-war movement.
DAVID MELENDY
Seung-Hui Cho, the student gunman.
One of the few photographs taken inside French class in
Holden Hall at the time.
Injured occupants are carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia
Tech.
In This Day in History, May 4, 1970, National Guard troops kill
four students, wounding eight and permanently paralyzing
another at Kent State University In Kent, Ohio.
On April 28, 1945, “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci,
(shown above) were shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as
they attempted to flee to Switzerland.
The 61-year-old deposed former dictator of Italy was established by his
German allies as the figurehead of a puppet government in northern Italy
during the German occupation toward the close of the war. As the Allies
fought their way up the Italian peninsula, defeat of the Axis powers all
but certain, Mussolini considered his options. Not wanting to fall into
the hands of either the British or the Americans, and knowing that the
communist partisans, who had been fighting the remnants of roving
Italian fascist soldiers and thugs in the north, would try him as a war
criminal, he settled on escape to a neutral country.
Benito Mussolini (left) with Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler.
