American mass murderer responsible for the 2017 Las Vegas shooting (died 2017)

Stephen Paddock

Stephen Craig Paddock was an American mass murderer who perpetrated the 2017 Las Vegas shooting. Paddock opened fire into a crowd of about 22,000 concertgoers attending a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 60 people and injuring approximately 867. Paddock killed himself in his hotel room following the shooting after seeing police SWAT teams coming towards the hotel. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting by a lone shooter in United States history.

Born

1953

April 9

Died

2017

Era

1950s

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1953 Born
2017 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

193 The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum.
475 Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
537 Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. Despite shortages, he starts raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges but is forced into a stalemate.
1241 Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.

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The world in 1953

When Stephen arrived

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan 1285–1320 Emperor Renzong of Yuan (died 1320) Charles E. Burchfield 1893–1967 American painter (died 1967) Chorão 1970–2013 Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 2013) Cynthia Nixon 1966– American actress Elias Lönnrot 1802–1884 Finnish physician and philologist (died 1884) Erich Ludendorff 1865–1937 German general and politician (died 1937) Gian Maria Volonté 1933–1994 Italian actor (died 1994) Harris Wofford 1926–2019 American politician, author, and civil rights activist (died 2019) Heinz Meyer 1916– German Fallschirmjäger (paratrooper) during World War II (died 1987)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1953

Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model Ben Bernanke 1953– American economist Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor

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