History Hop Tags - Shooting

1898-07-08

The shooting death of crime boss Soapy Smith releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.

1913-03-04

1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed

1917-03-25

Canadian ace Billy Bishop claims his first victory, shooting down a Leutnant Theiller

1917-06-02

Canadian ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines, shooting down three aircrafts as they were about to take off and several more on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross

1918-04-14

Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)

1926-09-20

Bugs Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting but fails

1931-07-28

Mob hitman Mad Dog Coll allegedly participates in a kidnapping attempt that results in the shooting death of a child, which earns him the nickname "Mad Dog"

1934-03-25

1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284

1935-04-08

2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282

1936-04-06

3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285

1937-04-04

4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283

1937-11-01

Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community (including three women).

1938-04-04

5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285

1939-04-02

6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279

1939-06-12

Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.

1940-04-07

7th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 280

1941-04-06

8th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Wood wins, shooting a 280

1942-04-12

9th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 280

1946-04-07

10th Golf Masters Championship: Herman Keiser wins, shooting a 282

1947-04-06

11th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 281

1948-04-11

12th Golf Masters Championship: Claude Harmon wins, shooting a 279

1949-04-10

13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282

1950-04-09

14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283

1951-04-07

15th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 280

1952-04-06

16th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 286

1953-04-12

17th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Hogan wins, shooting a 274

1954-04-12

18th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 289

1955-04-10

19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279

1956-04-08

20th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Burke Jr wins, shooting a 289

1957-04-07

21st Golf Masters Championship: Doug Ford wins, shooting a 283

1958-04-06

22nd Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284

1959-04-05

23rd Golf Masters Championship: Art Wall Jr wins, shooting a 284

1960-04-10

24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282

1961-04-10

25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280

1961-09-01

The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate

1962-01-16

Shooting begins on "Dr No"

1962-04-09

26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280

1962-08-19

Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55

1963-04-07

27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286

1964-03-19

Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on "Goldfinger"

1964-04-12

28th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276

1964-12-12

Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie)

1964-12-24

Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek

1965-04-11

29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271

1965-07-19

Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

1966-04-11

30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288

1966-05-01

US troops shooting targets in Cambodia

1967-04-09

31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280

1968-04-14

32nd Golf Masters Championship: Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277

1968-06-03

Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times.

1969-04-13

33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281

1970-04-13

34th Golf Masters Championship: Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279

1971-04-11

35th Golf Masters Championship: Charles Coody wins, shooting a 279

1971-07-16

The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie

1971-09-03

A baby girl and an Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier are killed in separate shooting incidents in Northern Ireland

1971-09-14

Two British soldiers are killed in separate shooting incidents in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

1972-01-30

'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the Troubles'

1972-04-09

36th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286

1972-05-22

Over 400 women in Derry attack the offices of Official Sinn Féin in Derry, North Ireland, following the shooting of William Best by the Official Irish Republican Army

1972-08-04

Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace

1972-08-23

4 civilians and 1 British soldier are injured in separate overnight shooting incidents in North Ireland

1973-04-09

37th Golf Masters Championship: Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283

1973-11-06

"Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting

1974-04-14

38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278

1975-04-13

39th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276

1976-03-29

8 Ohio National Guardsmen indicted for shooting 4 Kent State students

1976-04-11

40th Golf Masters Championship: Ray Floyd wins, shooting a 271

1977-04-10

41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276

1978-04-09

42nd Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 277

1979-04-15

43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280

1980-04-13

44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275

1981-04-12

45th Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 280

1982-04-11

46th Golf Masters Championship: Craig Stadler wins, shooting a 284

1983-04-11

47th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 280

1983-09-06

USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2

1983-09-12

USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane

1983-09-14

US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner

1984-04-15

48th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 277

1985-04-14

49th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282

1986-04-13

50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279

1987-04-12

51st Golf Masters Championship: Larry Mize wins, shooting a 285

1987-06-16

Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

1988-04-10

52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281

1988-07-18

Shooting begins on "License to Kill"

1989-01-13

Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate

1989-03-05

Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266

1989-04-09

53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283

1990-04-08

54th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 278

1991-01-20

US Patriot missiles begins shooting down Iraqi missiles

1991-04-14

55th Golf Masters Championship: Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277

1991-11-01

Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.

1992-04-12

56th Golf Masters Championship: Fred Couples wins, shooting a 275

1992-12-01

Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco

1993-04-11

57th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 277

1994-02-14

Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting.

1994-04-10

58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279

1995-04-09

59th Golf Masters Championship: Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274

1996-04-14

60th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 276

1996-09-07

Rap artist Tupac Shahur shot multiple times in drive by shooting in Las Vegas, dies 6 days later

1997-07-20

American Justin Leonard wins the British Open shooting at 272

1997-08-24

Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273

1997-08-24

Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265

1997-09-21

Tim Herron wins Texas Golf Open shooting a 271

1997-10-05

Davis Love III wins golf's Buick challenge, shooting a 267

1998-04-12

62nd Golf Masters Championship: Mark O'Meara wins, shooting a 279

1999-04-11

63rd Golf Masters Championship: José María Olazábal wins, shooting a 280

1999-05-07

A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family $25 million USD.

2000-04-09

64th Golf Masters Championship: Vijay Singh wins, shooting a 278

2001-04-08

65th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods wins, shooting a 272

2003-04-13

67th Golf Masters Championship: Mike Weir wins, shooting a 281

2004-04-11

68th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 279

2005-04-10

69th Golf Masters Championship: Tiger Woods wins, shooting a 276

2005-12-26

Boxing Day shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto.

2006-01-12

Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II.

2006-04-09

70th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 281

2006-10-02

Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.

2006-12-20

A judge rules against the death penalty in the case of Naveed Haq, a man convicted in the shooting death and injuries at the Jewish Federation in Seattle.

2007-02-12

A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.

2007-04-08

71st Golf Masters Championship: Zach Johnson wins, shooting a 289

2007-04-16

Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.

2007-04-20

Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.

2007-11-07

Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.

2008-02-14

Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured.

2008-04-13

72nd Golf Masters Championship: Trevor Immelman wins, shooting a 280

2008-06-25

Atlantis Plastics shooting, An employee shot and killed five people after an argument, which ended in the gunman's suicide in Henderson, Kentucky.

2009-03-11

Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.

2009-04-12

73rd Golf Masters Championship: Ángel Cabrera wins, shooting a 276

2009-11-05

US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation.

2010-04-11

74th Golf Masters Championship: Phil Mickelson wins, shooting a 272

2011-01-08

Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords

2011-04-10

75th Golf Masters Championship: Charl Schwartzel wins, shooting a 274

2012-04-02

Oikos University, Oakland shooting kills seven people and injures 3

2012-04-08

76th Golf Masters Championship: Bubba Watson wins, shooting a 278

2012-07-17

17 people are wounded in a bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

2013-01-23

18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria

2013-04-09

13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivanča, Serbia

2013-04-14

77th Golf Masters Championship: Adam Scott wins, shooting a 279

2013-04-22

6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia

2013-08-08

4 people are killed and 4 are wounded in a shooting spree in Dallas, Texas

2014-02-03

2 students are shot & killed in a school shooting in Moscow

2015-04-12

79th Golf Masters Championship: Jordan Spieth wins, shooting a 270

2015-11-25

Chicago protesters march, block streets after police release shooting video

2016-01-01

Police: 2 killed, at least 4 wounded in Tel Aviv pub shooting

2016-01-22

Five dead, two injured after shooting in Saskatchewan school

2016-02-21

Michigan shooting spree leaves at least 6 dead

2016-03-14

Maryland Shooting Outside Police Station Leaves One Officer Dead

2016-05-27

Rapper Troy Ave Is Arrested After Fatal Shooting at TI Concert

2016-05-31

Ohio zoo defends shooting of gorilla after boy fell in enclosure

2016-08-14

US|Fires Burn in Milwaukee After a Fatal Police Shooting

2016-08-14

Imam and His Assistant Killed in a Shooting Near a Mosque in Queens

2016-08-15

Milwaukee Shaken by Eruption of Violence After Shooting by Police

2016-09-22

Man fatally shot in Charlotte protests over US police shooting

2016-09-24

4 Dead in Shooting at Mall in Washington State, Police Say

2016-09-25

Suspect in shooting at Washington state mall captured: state police

2016-09-29

Protests continue over police-involved shooting of unarmed black man in El Cajon, Calif.

2017-01-07

Fort Lauderdale airport shooting: Five people shot dead by Florida gunman

2017-01-30

Quebec Mosque Shooting Kills at Least 6, and 2 Suspects Are Arrested

2017-01-30

Canadian PM say mosque shooting a 'terrorist attack on Muslims'

2017-04-09

Shooting at upscale Florida mall leaves 1 dead, 2 wounded

2017-04-16

Four injured in shooting at Alabama church carnival

2017-04-21

One Officer Killed, Two Wounded In Shooting On Paris' Champs Elysees

2017-06-17

Minnesota officer fired from police force after acquittal in Philando Castile shooting

2018-02-16

Survivors of Florida high school shooting call for action on gun control

2018-02-17

Trump visits Florida hospital to pay respects after school shooting

2018-02-26

Florida to investigate police response to school shooting that killed 17

2018-02-28

States grapple with gun laws after Florida shooting

1829-01-21

King Oscar II, Royal Shooting Party on Hveen

1841-01-30

François Félix Faure, President Faure Shooting Pheasants

1881-05-13

Duke R. Lee, Straight Shooting

1889-02-27

Herman Willingham, Shooting High

1909-12-06

Daniel A. McGovern, Shooting War

1915-01-08

Vasili Simchich, The Shooting Party

1919-10-01

Walter Rosenblum, Shooting War

1919-10-27

Don Honeyman, Shooting War

1923-05-06

Georgiy Khasso, The Shooting Party

1923-10-09

Burt Goodman, Shooting Lily

1927-01-16

Georgy Zholud, The Shooting Party

1927-06-17

Dom de Beern, No Shooting Time for Foxes

1927-12-13

Leonid Markov, The Shooting Party

1927-9-28

Alan Bridges, The Shooting Party

1929-08-08

Gianni Sbarra, The Night of the Shooting Stars

1930-05-05

Will Hutchins, The Shooting

1930-12-08

Julian Bond, The Shooting Party

1931-9-10

Isabel Colegate, The Shooting Party

1932-06-18

Günter Seuren, No Shooting Time for Foxes

1933-07-30

Shirley Burniston, Shooting Star

1934-9-19

Carl Davis, Church Reopens: First Emanuel Service Since Shooting

1935-03-05

Letizia Battaglia, Shooting Palermo

1935-08-03

Omero Antonutti, The Night of the Shooting Stars

1936-01-10

Stephen Ambrose, Shooting War

1936-12-23

Monika Peitsch, No Shooting Time for Foxes

1937-05-29

Irmin Schmidt, Palermo Shooting

1938-03-12

Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)

1940-02-18

Fabrizio De Andrè, Palermo Shooting

1942-02-06

Sarah Brady, The Shooting of Ronald Reagan

1943-11-03

Franco Piacentini, The Night of the Shooting Stars

1944-01-27

John Foster, Shooting Fish

1944-08-30

Baz Taylor, Shooting Elizabeth

1946-08-22

Stanislas Syrewicz, Shooting Fish

1947-08-01

Leoluca Orlando, Shooting Palermo

1951-03-28

Massimo Bonetti, The Night of the Shooting Stars

1951-06-20

Philip York, Shooting Fish

1953-05-03

Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)

1953-05-10

Steve Thomas, rocker (Shooting Star)

1956-04-29

Ron Verlin, rocker (Shooting Star)

1958-01-19

Matthew Raney, Shooting War

1958-01-27

Charles Waltz, rocker (Shooting Star)

1958-08-05

Enrica Maria Modugno, The Night of the Shooting Stars

1959-01-06

Thoko Noko, Shooting Shona

1959-01-24

Vic Reeves, Shooting Stars: Unviewed and Nude

1959-05-23

Bob Mortimer, Shooting Stars: Unviewed and Nude

1959-06-12

Anthony Lawrence, Shooting the Breeze

1960-04-21

Gye Di Capua, Shooting LA

1961-04-26

Galina Belyaeva, The Shooting Party

1961-05-14

Cristina Higueras, Shooting Elizabeth

1962-04-02

Alex Tripolski, Israel, Men's Shooting 50M air pistol (Oly-16th-1996)

1963-04-16

Rebecca Saire, The Shooting Party

1963-12-01

Susanne Meikl, Sternberg - Shooting Star

1966-02-03

Hermine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Shooting Stars

1967-12-12

Paul Wilson, Shooting the Prodigal

1967-9-22

Steven Calapai, Shooting Cars

1968-01-25

Inga Busch, Palermo Shooting

1968-05-03

Graham Guit, Shooting Stars

1968-05-27

Mark Van Wye, Shooting Lily

1969-02-14

Ronnie Larsen, Shooting Porn

1970-10-10

Heather Christiansen, Shooting for Something Else

1971-04-02

Giulio Baraldi, Shooting

1971-07-13

Nicholas Pietrek, The Shooting Party

1972-01-01

Lilian Thuram, Shooting Stars

1972-05-26

Alex Dias de Almeida, Shooting Stars

1972-11-24

Charles Babbage, Shooting Nick

1973-08-14

Jay-Jay Okocha, Shooting Stars

1974-03-18

Axel Sichrovsky, Palermo Shooting

1974-07-12

Yanni Kratsas, Shooting Puppies

1974-12-13

Richard Hayes, Shooting Creek

1974-9-01

Justin Solonynka, Shooting God

1975-07-17

Jesse Richards, Shooting at the Moon

1976-11-22

Scott Snyder, Shooting God

1977-03-29

Olivia Asiedu-Poku, Palermo Shooting

1977-9-08

Darren Renouf, Shooting Fish

1978-01-22

Andrew Bentler, Kimmy Kim Catches a Shooting Star!

1978-12-03

Jeremy Leroux, Shooting the Musical

1978-12-20

Melissa Mace, The Mystery of Shooting Stars

1979-10-19

Phil Armijo, Shooting for the Moon

1980-02-11

Alex DeMarco, The Shooting Star Salesman

1980-03-21

Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Shooting Stars

1980-10-10

Rod Chevitarese Batista, Shooting with John

1981-07-09

Kimveer Gill, Canadian spree shooter (Dawson College shooting) (d. 2006)

1981-07-09

Malek Hanna, Shooting Puppies

1982-07-06

Dipika Guha, Shooting Shona

1983-05-06

Adam Chinoy, Shooting Johnson Roebling

1984-06-07

Kamma Pastoll, Shooting Shona

1984-9-22

Samantha Béart, Shooting Shona

1986-08-18

Scott Charles, Shooting Fish

1987-06-19

Chris Windham, B-Movie: The Shooting of 'Farmhouse Massacre'

1987-9-02

Jose Diaz, Church Reopens: First Emanuel Service Since Shooting

1989-10-29

Ryan Dolan, Shooting on the Rim

1994-04-03

Dylann Roof, Charleston Church Shooting

1999-04-10

Alec LeMaster, The Mystery of Shooting Stars

1899-02-16

François Félix Faure, President Faure Shooting Pheasants

1907-12-08

King Oscar II, Royal Shooting Party on Hveen

1923-09-22

Marquess of Ripon, game hunter, dies, after shooting 52nd grouse

1926-11-03

Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66

1944-12-20

Johnny Marvin, Shooting High

1959-04-01

Duke R. Lee, Straight Shooting

1959-06-16

George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), commits suicide by shooting himself in the head at 45

1968-04-21

Toby Halicki, car-crash film producer 48, killed shooting stunt

1974-10-29

Herman Willingham, Shooting High

1978-03-01

Vasili Simchich, The Shooting Party

1986-10-10

Georgiy Khasso, The Shooting Party

1988-03-29

Dom de Beern, No Shooting Time for Foxes

1991-03-02

Leonid Markov, The Shooting Party

1999-01-11

Fabrizio De Andrè, Palermo Shooting

2002-10-13

Stephen Ambrose, Shooting War

2003-05-22

Ousmane Zongo, Burkinabé shooting victim

2003-12-10

Günter Seuren, No Shooting Time for Foxes

2005-01-24

Scott Snyder, Shooting God

2005-07-23

Burt Goodman, Shooting Lily

2005-10-14

Franco Piacentini, The Night of the Shooting Stars

2005-12-14

Daniel A. McGovern, Shooting War

2006-01-23

Walter Rosenblum, Shooting War

2006-11-25

Sean Bell, American shooting victim (b. 1983)

2011-06-01

Don Honeyman, Shooting War

2012-01-14

Julian Bond, The Shooting Party

2012-08-09

Carl Davis, Church Reopens: First Emanuel Service Since Shooting

2013-12-07

Alan Bridges, The Shooting Party

2015-04-03

Sarah Brady, The Shooting of Ronald Reagan

2018-06-19

Rapper Jimmy Wopo, 21, is shot dead in drive-by shooting in his native Pittsburgh