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1999 Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves 1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students 1990 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida 1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing 1989 Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China 1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China 1989 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China 1989 Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts 1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom 1989 Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests 1989 Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded 1988 Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed 1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students 1982 Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic 1979 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) 1978 Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar 1977 Milt workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa 1976 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students 1973 Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed 1973 Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed 1970 Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes 1970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) 1970 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard 1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam 1968 Students of San Francisco State Counsel go on strike 1968 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed 1968 President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse 1968 Students and police battle in Paris, 100s injured 1968 Battle between students and troops in Paris, 1000 injured 1968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State 1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York City 1968 Students seize building at Bowie State College 1968 Howard University students seize administration building 1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw 1968 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin 1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg) 1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College 1967 Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University 1964 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley 1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools 1964 Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools 1963 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest 1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama 1963 Alabama Gov George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 1963 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien 1960 Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches 1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta 1960 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth 1958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic) 1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw 1957 Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school 1956 Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school 1956 Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school 1944 Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala 1942 Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work 1940 Leidse students strike 1940 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis 1940 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier 1937 New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike 1933 Jewish students are barred from school in Germany 1931 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students 1929 Allard Lowenstein, radical, Students for Democratic Action 1926 NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates 1898 Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author, Students 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" 1891 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College) 1873 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University 1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students 1848 Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia 1839 1st state normal school in U.S. opens, Lexington, Massachusetts, with 3 students 1825 Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out 1570 King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students

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