2004 After a 2-day standoff, Islamist terrorists murder about 340 held inside a school in Beslan, Russia
2000 Chris Rebello, high school football coach/child actor, Jaws, dies at 37
1999 Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves
1995 "School after Scandal" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 23 performances
1995 "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 23 performances
1995 James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
1995 1st New York City Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
1994 Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78
1994 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists threaten school/Universities
1994 Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed)
1994 Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81
1994 Fishing boat with school children capsize at Lanaka Syria, 46 killed
1993 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died
1993 Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61
1992 Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43
1992 Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students
1989 Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
1988 Kurt Raab, writer/actor (Boarding School, Stationmaster's Wife), dies
1988 Ross Ford, actor (Reform School Girl, Jungle Patrol), dies
1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities
1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1987 National Federation of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1984 Kenny Delmar, comedian (School House), dies at 74
1982 "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 performances
1982 "Is There Life after High School?" opens at Barrymore New York City for 12 performances
1981 Samuel Barber, U.S. composer (School for Scandal), dies at 70
1979 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period
1978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected
1978 In girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George
1977 Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" and "Girl's School"
1977 Sarah Chalke, Ottawa, actress, Becky-Roseanne, Ernest Goes to School
1977 Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1976 Boy George expelled from school
1976 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children and their bus driver in California
1974 National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
1974 Mail truck terrorists take school in Maalot, 30 killed
1973 University of Texas (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
1973 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
1971 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1970 Chris O'Donnell, actor, School Ties, Robin-Batman Forever
1970 Arab terrorists kill 9 children and 3 adults on a school bus
1969 Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
1969 Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86
1968 Brendan Fraser, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, actor, School Ties, 20 Bucks
1967 Sheila Lussier, La Mesa California, actress, Reform School, My Chauffeur
1967 Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress, Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School
1966 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales
1966 Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Robert Downey, Jr., born in New York City, comedian, SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School
1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime
1964 Dirk HW Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergen School), dies at 78
1963 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school
1963 Michelle Bell, Melrose, Massachusetts, LPGA golfer, 1981 Mass School Girls Champ
1962 Supreme Court rules New York school prayer unconstitutional
1962 Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester, New York
1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1961 Laurence Fishburne, born in Augusta, Georgia, actor, Red Heat, School Daze
1961 Maria Radulphus, [Adrian Hermus], Curaeao school inspector, dies at 91
1960 Riot due to school integration in New Orleans
1960 Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80
1958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic)
1958 U.S. Supreme Court orders Little Rock Arkansas high school to integrate
1958 Taylor Negron, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Silvio-Detective School
1958 Frank Zappa graduates from Antelope Valley High School in Lancaster, California
1958 President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central High School, Little Rock
1958 Giancarlo Esposito, actor, Bob Roberts, School Daze, King of New York
1958 William Faulkner says U.S. school degenerated to become babysitters
1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
1957 German sailing school ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean
1957 Nashville's new Hattie Cotton Elementary School dynamited
1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school
1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
1956 Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school
1956 Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school
1956 Joanna M C "Annemarie" Henselmans, singer/cabaretiere, School Desk
1955 Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1954 School integration begins in Washington D.C. and Baltimore Md public schools
1954 School desegregation law, Brown vs. Board of education
1954 Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school), dies at 80
1953 Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn
1953 C. A. Barnett, headmaster, Whitgift School
1952 Sam Kinison, screaming comedian/actor, Back to School, Charlie Hoover
1952 Sylvia Kristel, Neth, actress, Emmanuelle, Priv School for Girls
1951 William "Bootsy" Collins, U.S. bassist, Psychotic bump school
1951 NAACP begins attack on school segregation and discrimination
1951 Netherlands Radio School forms
1950 Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus and high school rule
1950 P R Scott, Headmaster, Bancroft's School, Woodford Green
1950 Pamela Franklin, Tokyo, Japan, actress, Satan's School for Girls
1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
1948 Alice Cooper, [Vincent Furnier], Detroit, rocker, School's Out
1948 Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
1947 Michael Mavor, Head Master, Rugby School
1945 During snow storm, school bus crashes, kills 15 (Washington)
1945 Cato-Meridian School, New York, installs germicidal lamps in every room
1944 Peter Hobson, headmaster, Giggleswick School
1944 U.S. B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1944 R P Mardling, headmaster, Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
1942 Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in Canada
1942 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1941 Colin Niven, Headmaster, Alleyn's School
1941 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated
1941 Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
1939 George Nicholls Jr, actor (Finishing School), dies at 42
1939 George Bain, principal, London Business School
1939 N R Bomford, head master, Harrow School
1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school
1938 School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
1938 Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public and High School
1937 1st Santa Claus Training School opens in Albion, New York
1937 David Summerscale, head master, Westminster School England
1937 Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
1937 P J Squire, British headmaster, Bedford Modern School
1937 S J B Langdale, Headmaster, Shrewsbury School
1936 Marva Nettles Collins, educator, west side preparatory school
1936 Sally Kellerman, Long Beach Cal, actress, M*A*S*H, Back to School
1936 Janet Allen, Headmistress, Benenden School
1935 John H Aberson, 1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78
1934 David Jones, British reverend and headmaster, Bryanston School
1934 Bryan Bass, headmaster, City of London School
1934 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
1933 D A Fenner, British headmaster, Alleyn's School
1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
1932 Walt Disney Art School created
1932 Mary Moon, Headmistress, Manchester High School for Girls
1932 Dom Philip Jebb, headmaster, Downside School Great Britain
1932 Alistair Graham, headmaster, Mill Hill School
1932 A J Zuckerman, Dean, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine
1929 Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
1929 Sally L Smith, educator/founder, Lab School of Wash
1928 Peter Moore, Principal, London Business School
1927 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens
1927 Robert Brustein, born in New York City, dean, Yale School of Drama
1926 James Hele, high master, St. Paul's School
1926 Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland
1925 Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tennessee High School, fined $100 and costs
1924 School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
1924 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA and Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1924 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland High School basketball game (163-3)
1924 Lionel Dakers, director, Royal School of Church Music
1923 Michel de Klerk, architect (Amsterdam School), dies at 39
1923 Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
1923 Zvi Zeitlin, Dubrovnik Yugoslavia, violinist and professor, Eastman School
1922 Max Bygraves, London, actor, Tom Brown's School Days
1922 GMcC Kitson, British principal, Central School of Speech/Drama
1922 Margaret Scott, founder, Australian Ballet School
1920 Java Technical School Bandung opens
1920 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes school laws
1919 Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist, opppsed prayer in school
1918 Eugene List, Philadelphia Penn, pianist/prof, Eastman School of Music
1918 Dom Aelred Watkin, headmaster, Downside School
1918 Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va
1917 Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School), dies at 79
1917 Walt Disney graduates from Benton High School
1916 Ronald Ridout, school textbook author
1915 International School for Wijsbegeerte forms
1914 J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69
1913 Mary Green, headmistress, Kidbrooke School
1913 Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author
1910 Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66
1910 Dorothy Maynor, born in Norfolk, Virginia, soprano/founder, Harlem School of Arts
1910 Samuel Barber, born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, composer, Pulitz, School for Scandal
1910 Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
1909 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
1909 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
1908 Collingwood Ohio primary school catches fire; 180 die
1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome)
1906 San Francisco begins school for "Asians"
1906 Bezalel Art School opens in Jerusalem
1905 Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher, 50 years in 1 room school in SC
1905 Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
1905 Waseda University of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal and Industrial School
1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School"
1900 Stephen Potter, humorist and writer, School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders
1897 John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal
1895 Richard Goolden, born in London, England, actor, School for Husbands
1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass
1890 1st U.S. college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin
1887 1st U.S. school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
1885 Dirk H W Filarski, Dutch painter/lithographer, Bergense School
1884 Michel de Klerk, architect, Amsterdam School
1883 Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect, Bauhaus school of design
1881 Piet[er] L Kramer, architect, Amsterdam School
1880 Mahlon Hamilton, born in Virginia, actor, Honky Tonk, High School Girl, Mississippi
1880 Rosina Lhevinne, born in Kiev, Ukraine, pianist/prof, Juiliard Grad School
1877 Rijkslandbouwhoge school opens in Wageningen
1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts
1873 Julian Lowell Coolidge, Massachusetts, mathematician, Study-Segre school
1873 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis
1873 University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
1871 Phoebe Couzins is 1st woman graduate of a U.S. collegiate law school
1867 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
1867 Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School
1867 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1866 Martha McChesney Berry, U.S., founded Berry School for Children
1866 Ernest Watson Burgess, U.S. sociologist, ecological school
1865 Robert Henri, U.S. painter, leader of Ashcan school
1865 MIT forms 1st U.S. collegiate architectural school
1864 1st U.S. mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, New York
1863 Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer, Boarding School
1861 1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia
1861 1st U.S. nursing school chartered
1855 Thomas F Tout, London, historian, Manchester school of historiography
1852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st U.S. surgical school
1852 Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
1850 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens
1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1848 1st U.S. woman's medical school opens (Boston)
1848 Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston
1845 Naval School (now called U.S. Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1844 Mary Johnson Lincoln, educator, Boston Cooking School
1844 J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter, Haagse school
1844 Willem Maris, Dutch painter, Hague School
1839 1st state normal school in U.S. opens, Lexington, Massachusetts, with 3 students
1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions
1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established
1829 Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1827 1st U.S. swim school opens (Boston Mass)
1823 Thomas Hughes, England, author, Tom Brown's School Days
1823 1st normal school in U.S. opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1822 Veterinary school in Utrecht opens
1817 1st U.S. school for deaf (Hartford, Conn)
1817 1st American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut
1813 Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in U.S. (NY)
1803 Prudence Crandall, founder, School for "young ladies of colour"
1801 Thomas Cole, U.S., romantic landscape painter, Hudson River School
1791 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1789 Charles-Michel abbe de l'Epee, (school for the deaf), dies at 77
1787 1st free school in New York City (African Free School) opens
1787 Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities
1787 Emma Willard, U.S., opens school for young ladies, Hall of Fame
1784 E Kidner opens 1st cooking school, in Great Britain
1777 RB Sheridans "School for Scandal," premieres in London
1770 Quakers open a school for blacks in Philadelphia
1769 Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
1750 1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md
1736 Robert Raikes, England, Sunday school pioneer
1712 Charles-Michel abbe de l'Epee, French educator, school for the deaf
1704 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York
1704 Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York City
1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1647 Massachusetts passes 1st U.S. compulsory school attendance law
1639 Dorchester Massachusetts, forms 1st school funded by local taxes
1635 Oldest U.S. public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1613 Gerard Dou, Dutch painter, Night School
1559 Kano Motonobu, Zen co-founder (Kano school of painting), dies at 83
1517 John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37
1483 Raphael, born in Urbino, Italy, painter, School of Athens
1476 Kano Motonobu, Kyoto Japan, co-founder, Kano school of painting
1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54
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