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Tucked away in a quiet, wooded area near Estonia’s Ämari Air Base, the Ämari Pilots’ Cemetery is an unusual and haunting memorial. Unlike...

On the cold afternoon of 30 January 1972, the streets of the Bogside area of Derry became the backdrop for one of the darkest days in modern British and Irish history. What began as a peaceful civil rights march ended with thirteen unarmed civilians shot dead and at least fifteen others injured after British Army paratroopers opened fire on the demonstrators. Another man, John Johnston, would succumb to his wounds four months later. The events of that day, known ever since as

Shortly after 8.30am on 29th January, 1979, the school day at Grover Cleveland Elementary in San Diego, California, had barely begun. Children were gathering outside the gates, waiting for them to open, when gunfire suddenly erupted from a house directly opposite the school. Within minutes, the scene descended into confusion and panic. Principal Burton Wragg, aged 53, and school custodian Mike Suchar, aged 56, were both fatally shot while attempting to protect pupils. Eight c