1. Weâre poorer than our parents were at our age. Few people have been through as many economic ups and downs as the members of Generation X. Born between 1965 and 1980, any entered the workforce during the boom years of the Clinton administrationâbut then along came 9/11 and, a few years later, the Great Recession.
The shooter, Charles Whitman, was a student at the University of Texas. A former Marine who grew up with an abusive father, he admitted to killing his mother and his wife in a suicide note. The next day, Whitman began shooting people from the top of the Texas Tower with a sniper rifle.
Charles J. Gregory, a school teacher, shot at a pupil at close range because he refused to write on the a slate. The teacher was arrested. February 28, 1884: Danville, Virginia, United States: Allen Wamack, 15: 2 injured: 2: As Allen Wamack, a fifteen-year-old boy drove by a negro school house, he called out