This Date In History's Obituaries...

Author: luminous_luciano

Date: December 6, 2005

by luminous_luciano
12-06-05
1969: Problems plague the Rolling Stones Altamont Raceway, for which the Stones hired the Hell's Angels -no less- as security guards... (!)
An 18-year-old black man was beaten to death by "security" there... he must have wanted a beer...
Two people in sleeping bags are run over by vehicles and killed... and another stoned Stones fan drowned...
1988: I was all right for a while / I could smile for a while... no longer, as Roy Orbison died on this day...
The author of this strip is a huge Roy Orbison fan.
The author of this strip was also a student at the exact same University where -and at the exact same time when- next panel's 1989 tragedy occured... read on...
1989: 25-year-old Canadian mysoginist Marc Lépine avenges rejection by a Montreal engineering college...
He goes to the University in question and begins shooting every woman he sees - killing 15 and wounding 14 more... and then he killed himself.
He had to heart his father's belief that women were slaves who didn't merit higher education...