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The Tiananmen Square protests, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, [1] [2] [a] were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government ...
- 15 April – 4 June 1989, (1 month, 2 weeks and 6 days)
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The 117th annual Boston Marathon was run on Patriots' Day, April 15, 2013.At 2:49 p.m. EDT (18:49 UTC), two bombs detonated about 210 yards (190 m) apart at the finish line on Boylston Street near Copley Square. The first exploded outside Marathon Sports at 671–673 Boylston Street at 2:49:43 p.m. At the time of the first explosion, the race clock at the finish line showed 04:09:43 —the ...
- April 15, 2013; 10 years ago, 2:49 p.m. (EDT)
- Two pressure cooker bombs
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- Suicide of Rosario Porto
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Asunta Basterra was born Fang Yong in 2000 in Yongzhou, Hunan, China. At nine months old she was adopted by Alfonso Basterra Camporro (born 1964) and María del Rosario Porto Ortega (1969–2020), an affluent Spanish couple from Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. Asunta was the first Chinese child to be adopted in the city of Santiago and one of the fir...
Asunta was first reported missing by her parents at 10:17pm on Saturday, 21 September 2013. They had eaten lunch together at her father's home that afternoon. Asunta was seen on a bank's security camera at 2pm walking to her father's house, and appeared on that same security camera at 5:21pm returning home to her mother's flat. Porto was seen on th...
The parents' activities could be reconstructed in the hours leading up to their daughter's disappearance and death, thanks to testimonies, surveillance cameras, and records from phones and digital devices: 1. 01:55 pm. Asunta leaves her home; 2. 02:00 pm. She passes a bank branch camera on her way to her father's flat, with whom she is going to hav...
In a first version of the events, Rosario Porto had declared that she left Asunta at around 19:00 hours at her home in Santiago de Compostela, and that when she returned a couple of hours later, the girl was no longer there. On Tuesday, 24 September, after the cremationof her daughter's body, Rosario was arrested and charged due to the inconsistenc...
At the end of the trial, which lasted more than four weeks and for which 135 witnesses were called,and after four days of deliberation, the jury returned a guilty verdict for both parents that resolved some of the main issues in the case, but also left doubts. The jury considered (in section 9 of the proven facts) that the time of death was between...
On 16 March 2016, the High Court of Justice of Galicia dismissed the appealsof the lawyers of both parents and confirmed the 18-year sentence, although it acknowledged that it was Rosario who suffocated her daughter. On 22 November, the Supreme Courtalso dismissed the appeals of the defence, acknowledging that there was no evidence of Alfonso Baste...
Rosario Porto attempted suicide in prison on two occasions. On 24 February 2017, after it was announced that she was going to be transferred to the prison of A Lama, in Pontevedra, she was found unconscious due to an intake of sleeping pills that she had been accumulating and had to be admitted to a hospital.She was subsequently transferred, and on...
In Spain, the disappearance and death of Asunta Basterra has attracted more media coverage and public attention than any other crime. The Professional Association of Journalists of Galicia and the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Santiago de Compostela criticised in a statement the news treatment given to the Asunta case. The BNG, Galicia...
t. e. The Columbine High School massacre, commonly referred to as Columbine, was a school shooting and a failed bombing that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, United States. [b] The perpetrators, twelfth-grade students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered twelve students and one teacher.
Victim of torture murder. Sylvia Marie Likens (January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children, and several of their neighborhood friends. The abuse lasted for three months, occurring incrementally, before Likens died from her ...
Killing of Lacey Fletcher. On January 4, 2022, 911 reported that 64-year-old Sheila Fletcher and her husband, Clay Fletcher, had found her 36-year-old daughter Lacey Ellen Fletcher dead on their couch. It was revealed that for at least 12 years, Lacey Fletcher had been neglected by her parents after becoming unable to leave her house due to a ...
Perpetrators. Ansar al-Sharia. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Alleged) The 2012 Benghazi attack was a coordinated attack against two United States government facilities in Benghazi, Libya, by members of the Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia . On September 11, 2012, at 9:40 p.m. local time, members of Ansar al-Sharia attacked the American ...
