Man, what a day this has been. I've got the news on at the moment and have been reminded that this is the anniversary of two terrible events in Canadian history.
The Montreal Massacre happened on this day in 1989, when Marc Lepine killed fourteen women in an attempt to gain revenge on the 'feminists' who had allegedly 'ruined his life'. It's a day that is marked especially in universities, and I believe there's a memorial tonight down at our Engineering faculty - which is fitting.
It's also the 88th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, which changed this city forever. Until it was eclipsed by the atomic blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was the largest man-made explosion in history.
*shakes head*
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