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Port Arthur Bay, Port Arthur was the location of most of the shootings. At around 1:10 p.m., Bryant paid the entry fee for the site and proceeded to park near the Broad Arrow Café (), near the water's edge. The site security manager told him to park with the other cars because that area was reserved for camper-vans and the car park was busy ...
The Port Arthur riot happened on July 15, 1919, in Port Arthur, Texas. Violence started after a group of white men objected to an African American smoking near a white woman on a street car. [1] A "score" of whites and twice that number of African Americans battled in the streets leaving two seriously injured and dozens with minor injuries. [2]
Martin Bryant was born on 7 May 1967 at Queen Alexandra Hospital in Hobart, Tasmania. [2] He was the first child of Maurice and Carleen Bryant. Although his family's home was in Lenah Valley, Bryant spent some of his childhood at their beach home in Carnarvon Bay, adjacent to the Port Arthur Historic Site.
The Port Arthur convict settlement was established in September 1830 as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for government projects. From 1833 until 1877, it was the destination for those deemed the most hardened of transported convicts ― so-called "secondary offenders" ― who had persistently re-offended during their time in Australia.
Walter Mikac AM (born 29 April 1962) is an Australian pharmacist who became widely known as a political activist in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, where his wife Nanette Mikac (née Moulton) and daughters, six-year-old Alannah Mikac and three-year-old Madeline Mikac were among 35 people killed by Martin Bryant on 28 April 1996.
The Battle of Port Arthur (Japanese: 旅順口海戦, Hepburn: Ryojunkō Kaisen) [2] of 8–9 February 1904 marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War.It began with a surprise night attack by a squadron of Japanese destroyers on the neutral Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur, Manchuria, and continued with an engagement the following morning; further skirmishing off Port Arthur would ...
Port Arthur, Tasmania: 35 24 [n 1] 59: 1996 Port Arthur shootings: A man shot and killed 35 people and wounded 23 others during a shooting spree. [25] 25 January 1996: Hillcrest, Queensland: 7 [n 1] 0 7: A man shot dead his estranged wife, three children, and parents-in-law before committing suicide. [26] 22 October 1995: Prospect, Tasmania: 0 4 4
Port Arthur is a city in the state of Texas, United States of America, located 90 mi (140 km) east of metro Houston. Part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan area, the city lies primarily in Jefferson County, with a small extension in Orange County. The largest oil refinery in the US, the Motiva Refinery, is located in Port Arthur. [4]