In the
Red Lion Area Junior High School cafeteria (
Red Lion, Pennsylvania),
eighth-grader James Sheets, carrying multiple weapons, fatally shoots the principal, Eugene Segro, and then fatally shoots himself. Two years earlier, the same school district was the site of a machete attack that injured another principal, two teachers and 11 pupils.
The Canadian federal fisheries minister, Robert Thibault, announces the complete closure of the Atlantic
cod fishery, in order to prevent the commercial extinction of cod.[4]