Parker could weep -- and he wept astonishingly often and on the slightest provocation -- but the psychology of those tears was entirely compatible with a remorseless readiness to massacre his opponents.

Theodosius was threatened with excommunication by Ambrose for the massacre of 7, 000 persons at Thessalonica in 390, after the murder of the Roman governor there by rioters.

His arrival was celebrated by a massacre of 80, 000 Latins in Constantinople, especially the Venetian merchants, which he made no attempt to stop.

Andronikos Komnenos ' arrival was soon followed by a massacre of the Latin inhabitants of the city, who virtually controlled the economy of the city, with the massacre resulting in the deaths of 80, 000 " Latins ", i. e. Westerners.

The city of Assur was still occupied by Assyrians during the Islamic period until the 14th century when Tamurlane conducted a massacre of indigenous Assyrian Christians.

In 1175, Abergavenny Castle was the scene of a reputed massacre of local Welsh chieftains by the pious and ruthless William de Braose.

For instance, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Mayor of Cork, was assassinated in March 1920 by local RIC men and the massacre of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday was also carried out by the RIC although a small detachment of Auxiliaries were also present.

Only a little over 2 weeks later, the Columbine High School massacre postponed a home game with the Montreal Expos ( it was made up as part of a doubleheader in August ).

Cuitláhuac was made tlatoani of Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of Mexico ; After Pedro de Alvarado had ordered the massacre in the Main Temple, the Aztecs were very upset and started to fight and put a siege to the Spaniards.

After the success of his siege of Carcassonne, which followed the massacre at Béziers, Simon de Montfort was designated as leader of the Crusader army.

But in spite of the wholesale massacre of Cathars during the war, Catharism was not yet extinguished.

The Ma ' alot massacre of 1974, an attack on Israeli school in which 27 people were killed, was the group's largest attack.

The largest massacre was at Antioch, where 5, 000 Druze religious leaders were killed, followed by that of Aleppo.

Yaqub Khan, suspected of complicity in the massacre of Cavagnari and his staff, was obliged to abdicate.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Since he was Eleanor's vassal, many believed that it was she who had been ultimately responsible for the change in plan, and thus the massacre.

Despite ordering a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, Governor Marquis Bernard de Launay was beaten, stabbed and decapitated ; his head was placed on a pike and paraded about the city.

The relentless work of Albornoz ushered in a decade of warfare and atrocity culminating in the massacre of Cesena, a town faithful to the Papal cause who's entire population was executed by the Papal forces while paving the way of Urban V to Rome ( 1367 ).

Public concern with the goth subculture reached a high point in the fallout of the Columbine High School massacre that was carried out by two students, incorrectly associated with the goth subculture.

Further instability ensued, with several massacres, including the St Jean Bosco massacre in which the church of Jean-Bertrand Aristide was attacked and burned down.

In the history of the European colonization of North America, the term " Indian massacre " was often used to describe either mass killings of Europeans by indigenous people of the North American continent ( Indians ) or mass killings of indigenous people by the Europeans and by Americans of European origin.

What happened during the Battle of The Waxhaws, known to the Americans as the Buford Massacre or as the Waxhaw massacre, is the subject of debate.

The massacre, as well as others committed by the same unit on the same day and following days, was the subject of the Malmedy massacre trial, part of the Dachau Trials of 1946.

In the Jew of Malta ( 1589 – 90 ) " Machievel " in person speaks the Prologue, claiming to not be dead, but to have possessed the soul of ( the Duke of ) Guise, " And, now the Guise is dead, is come from France / To view this land, and frolic with his friends " ( Prologue, lines 3-4 ) His last play, The Massacre at Paris ( 1593 ) takes the massacre, and the following years, as its subject, with Guise and Catherine both depicted as Machiavellian plotters, bent on evil from the start.

The massacre was the subject of a 2010 New Zealand children's book, The Shadow of the Boyd, by Diana Menefy, and a 2005 historical fiction novel, The Boyd Massacre, by Ian Macdonald.

Released during the Vietnam War, shortly after public disclosure of the My Lai massacre, the film was controversial at the time not only for its subject matter, but also for its graphic depictions of violence.

He was allowed to keep evidence of the massacre, excluding the film, but was not allowed to lecture again or write on the subject.

The Rosewood massacre, the ensuing silence, and the compensation hearing were the subject of the 1996 book Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood by Michael D ' Orso.

The weapon was the subject of controversy following its use in the 101 California Street shootings and later the Columbine High School massacre.

The Hoddle Street massacre has been the subject of a number of books and book chapters, and two Australian TV documentaries: ABC TV's award-winning " Hoddle Street " ( 1988 ) and GTV Channel 9's " Hoddle Street " ( 2007 ).

His role in the 1938 Seguro Obrero massacre has always been subject of controversy.

In 1620, an uprising coordinated with the Spanish governor in Milan resulted in the massacre of a number of Protestants in the Republic's subject territory in the Valtellina, a fertile valley of considerable strategic importance ( for through it the Spaniards in Milan could communicate by the Umbrail Pass and the Stelvio Pass with the Austrians in Tirol ).

A subject taking place after the arrival in Egypt is the meeting of the infant Jesus with his cousin, the infant John the Baptist, who, according to legend was rescued from Bethlehem before the massacre by the Archangel Uriel, and joined the Holy Family in Egypt.

Former Mossad Director Zvi Zamir, who was present at the airport during the final gunfight, is interviewed about his views on the failed rescue ( he had previously been interviewed on this subject in an NBC profile of the Munich massacre broadcast during the Barcelona Olympics ).

In The Jew of Malta ( 1589 – 90 ) " Machievel " in person speaks the Prologue, claiming not to be dead, but to have possessed the soul of ( the Duke of ) Guise, " And, now the Guise is dead, is come from France / To view this land, and frolic with his friends " ( Prologue, lines 3 – 4 ) His last play, The Massacre at Paris ( 1593 ) takes the massacre, and the following years, as its subject, with the Duke of Guise and Catherine de ' Medici both depicted as Machiavellian plotters, bent on evil from the start.

* Born: Cassie Bernall, American victim of the Columbine High School massacre and subject of the book She Said Yes ; in Wheat Ridge, Colorado ( killed 1999 )

* 1997 – Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria ; a total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.

* 1997 – Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria – 93 villagers killed.

* 1997 – At least 98 villagers are killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria GIA in the Rais massacre, Algeria.

* 1997 – Omaria massacre in Algeria: 42 villagers are killed.

* 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria ; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

* 1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre ( or Sidi Lamri ) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.

* 1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

* 1997 – About 50 people are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.

* 1997 – The Dairat Labguer massacre in Algeria ; 50 people are killed.

* 1997 – Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.

* 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre ( The police then kill the assailants ).

* 1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria ; 43 killed at a fake roadblock.

* 1997 – Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria ; 53 killed.

* In England, Wales and Scotland, the private ownership of most handguns was banned in 1997 following a gun massacre at a school in Dunblane and an earlier gun massacre in Hungerford in which the combined deaths was 35 and injured 30.

The group is responsible for many acts of violence, including the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed.

In 1997, members of his group Al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya conducted two attacks against European visitors to Egypt, including the massacre of 58 tourists at Deir el-Bahri in Luxor.

Claims, since proven at best to be speculative, at worse outright media fabrication, relating to the Hungerford massacre and the murder of James Bulger ( the 1991 film Child's Play 3 was held up as influencing the perpetrators ) provided an additional impetus to restrict films and as late as December 1997, the Board claimed it " has never relaxed its guidelines on video violence, which remain the strictest in the world ".

The Dunblane massacre in Scotland in 1996 was followed by the Firearms ( Amendment ) Act 1997, which effectively banned all but. 22 pistols ; and then, after the Labour government led by Tony Blair came into power, the Firearms ( Amendment ) ( No. 2 ) Act 1997 was introduced, which effectively banned the private possession of all modern pistols, even for competitive sporting purposes.

Gray made his maiden speech on 11 June 1997, in which he spoke of his constituency's largest town of Chippenham, and of his sadness at the massacre in his childhood home town of Dunblane.

Following the Dunblane massacre, the government passed the Firearms ( Amendment ) ( No. 2 ) Act 1997, banning private ownership of handguns almost completely, although the official inquiry, known as the Cullen Inquiry, had not recommended this.

* 17 November 1997 – Luxor massacre at Deir el-Bahri, Luxor, Egypt.

In 1997 his tombstone was moved from Berlin to Nanjing ( as it is now ) where it received a place of honor at the massacre memorial site.