Random News and Notes 16 October

On this date:

• 1555 – The Protestant martyrs Bishop Hugh Latimer and Bishop Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake for heresy in England.
• 1701 – Yale University is founded as The Collegiate School of Kilingworth, Connecticut by Congregationalists who consider Harvard too liberal.
• 1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.
• 1846 – Ether (a crude general anesthetic) was first administered in public at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by Dr. William Thomas Green Morton during an operation performed by Dr. John Collins Warren.
• 1859 – Abolitionist John Brown, with 21 men, seizes the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry, Va. U.S. Marines capture the raiders, killing several. John Brown is later hanged in Virginia for treason.

• 1908 – The first airplane flight in England is made at Farnsborough, by Samuel Cody, a U.S. citizen.
• 1923 – Walt Disney and his brother Roy found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood, California. The studio, now known as the Walt Disney Company, has had an oversized impact on the entertainment industry and is now one of the largest media companies in the world.
• 1934 – Mao Tse-tung decides to abandon his base in Kiangsi due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and about 30,000 Red Army troops, he sets out on the “Long March.”
• 1946 – Ten Nazi war criminals are hanged in Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1969 – The New York Mets win the World Series four games to one over the heavily-favored Baltimore Orioles.
• 1973 – Israeli General Ariel Sharon crosses the Suez Canal and begins to encircle two Egyptian armies.
• 1978 – The college of cardinals elects 58-year-old Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, a Pole, the first non-Italian Pope since 1523. He would sit on Saint Peter’s Chair for the next 26 years and 5 months.
• 1987 – 18-month-old Jessica McClure is rescued after being trapped for 58 hours in an abandoned water well in Midland, Texas.

We start the news in Oregon. There was a tragic school shooting in Bend yesterday. An adult and three children ages 5, 8 and 11 were killed at Silver Rail Elementary School. A passerby noticed the shooter and pursued them into the school, shooting and killing them before more people could be killed. Two other victims, a 7-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher were taken to a hospital with injuries.

According to what I can gather, the shooter – only identified as a 16 year old ‘male’ at this time – was armed with a shotgun and shot his way into the school and began shooting at teachers and students. The good Samaritan saw this and engaged the shooter with his licenced CCW, killing him. There are unconfirmed iententies floating around for each of them, but as a rule, I do not publish the names of school shooters, and the good Samaritan ID is a bit weak, and I do not want to put the wrong guy out there.

It’s been nearly 18 hours and there has been not a peep about the name of the shooter, so I am going to invoke Coulter’s law. Needless to say, when I find out, you’ll find out.

From the MVAP sports desk, the NL side of the Fall Classic is set. The Milwaukee Brewers just swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. They made history in doing so. For the first time in MLB history, a team that had been swept in the previous season’s playoff came back and swept the same opponent.

The Brew Crew will face either Cleveland or Tampa in the World Series. Currently, The Indians are up 2-1 over the Rays. They play tonight at 8 in Cleveland. If you’re asking me, and I’ve called all the playoff series so far, it’s going to be the Indians (I refuse to call them the Guardians, that name is ghey and retarded) in 6 games.

From the MVAP weather desk, there are 20 foot waves forecast for Lake Michigan over the next 24 hours. A cold front is driving northwest winds gusting over 40 knots, fueling 15-to-20-foot waves across southern and central Lake Michigan, with nearshore spots like Chicago and Milwaukee seeing 10-to-14-foot breakers. The National Weather Service has gale warnings through late Friday night, warning of risks to boats and dangerous coastal currents.

Storm chasers are out capturing the spectacle, but officials urge everyone to stay safe and off the water.

Hopefully we have some video of the waves for tomorrow.