École Polytechnique Massacre

Date: December 6, 1989 • Location: Westmount, Canada

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1989.

25-year-old Marc Lépine, claiming to be "fighting feminism", killed fourteen women before committing suicide at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada.

Marc Lépine was a Canadian mass murderer who perpetrated the École Polytechnique massacre, where he murdered 14 women and wounded another 10 women and four men at École Polytechnique de Montréal, on December 6, 1989.