2014 Event By court order, student athletes can now profit from commercial use of their names and images; NCAA had previously retained all revenues from such deals, but students will now have profits placed in trust funds to be received upon leaving school 2014 Event Football players at Northwestern University cast votes on whether to form a union; the players were ruled last month to be university employees by the National Labor Relations Board, giving the students the right to organize 2014 Event 174 people have been rescued from a South Korean ferry that capsized off the coast; the ferry was carrying 476 people, mainly students; rescue efforts are ongoing 2012 Event After a series of self-immolation by Tibetan monks, hundreds of Tibetan monks and students protest against education policies in China's western Qinghai Province 2011 Event In anticipation of Budget Day, students protesting against the Irish financial crisis occupy the office of Fine Gael lawmaker Anthony Lawlor 2011 Event Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, attacks Britain, claiming the students represent Iran's public opinion 2011 Event Iranian students storm the British Embassy in Tehran, taking six hostages; the U.N. security council condemns the attack 2011 Event In Quebec, 200,000 Canadian college and university students vote to boycott classes to protest tuition fee increases 2011 Event In London, a rise in university tuition fees leads thousands of students to march in protest 2011 Event In Santiago, the Chilean capitol, tens of thousands of students protest for increased education expenditure 2011 Event Heavy rain in Pennsylvania causes 1,000 Hershey Middle School students in the Derry Township School District to be stranded 2011 Event The U.S. Texas Senate approves amended legislation allowing students in Texas to carry handguns on campus 2010 Event University students in England and Wales protest the government's plan to increase tuition fees and make higher education funding cuts 2010 Event Students in Britain plan a nationwide protest against a proposal to charge up to $9,000 pounds per year for tuition fees 1999 Event Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves 1991 Event Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students 1990 Event 2 slain college students found in Gainesville, Florida 1989 Event Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing 1989 Event 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing 1989 Event Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China 1989 Event Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China 1989 Event 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China 1989 Event Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts 1989 Event Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom 1989 Event Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests 1989 Event Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded 1988 Event Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed 1983 Event Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students 1982 Event Chaminade, with a student body of only 850 students, beats #1 ranked Virginia 77-72 in a Honolulu holiday basketball classic 1979 Event 500 Iranian "students" seize U.S. embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) 1978 Event Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar 1977 Event Miltitary workers kill 300-500 students in Addis Ababa 1976 Event 8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students 1973 Event Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed 1973 Event Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed 1970 Event Peruvian Airlines jet carrying 45 U.S. exchange students explodes 1970 Event Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss) 1970 Death 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard 1969 Event Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam 1968 Event Students of San Francisco State Counsel go on strike 1968 Event Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed 1968 Event President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse 1968 Event Students and police battle in Paris, 100s injured 1968 Event Battle between students and troops in Paris, 1000 injured 1968 Event Students seize administration building at Ohio State 1968 Event Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York City 1968 Event Students seize building at Bowie State College 1968 Event Howard University students seize administration building 1968 Event Students demonstrate in Warsaw 1968 Event 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin 1968 Event Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg) 1967 Event 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College 1967 Event Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University 1964 Event Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley 1964 Event 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools 1964 Event Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools 1963 Event 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest 1963 Event 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama 1963 Event Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools 1963 Event SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien 1960 Event Students stage kneel-in demonstrations in Atlanta churches 1960 Event Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta 1960 Event 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth 1958 Event Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students and 3 nuns (Chic) 1957 Event White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw 1957 Event Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black students from entering a Little Rock high school 1956 Event Black students enter Clay Kentucky elementary school 1956 Event Black students enter and are barred from Clay Kentucky elementary school 1944 Event Revolution by workers and students in Guatemala 1942 Event Seyss-Inquart orders students in nazi-Germany to go work 1940 Event Leidse students strike 1940 Event 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis 1940 Event 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier 1937 Event New York City college students stage 4th annual peace strike 1933 Event Jewish students are barred from school in Germany 1931 Event 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students 1929 Birthday Allard Lowenstein, radical, Students for Democratic Action 1926 Event NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates 1898 Birthday Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russian/Australia author, Students 1895 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes' "Adventure of 3 Students" 1891 Event 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College) 1873 Event 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University 1849 Event University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students 1848 Event Austrian soldiers kill 10 students, Pavia 1839 Event 1st state normal school in U.S. opens, Lexington, Massachusetts, with 3 students 1825 Event Dutch King Willem I throws foreign students out 1570 Event King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
