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Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]
Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena[note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2][3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry.
The Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples [nb 1] is the genocide and systematic destruction of the Indigenous inhabitants of Canada from colonization to the present day. [7] Throughout the history of Canada , the Canadian government and its colonial predecessors has committed what has variously been described as atrocities , crimes, ethnocide ...
Capital punishment in Canada dates to Canada's earliest history, including its period as first a French then a British colony. From 1867 to the elimination of the death penalty for murder on July 26, 1976, 1,481 people had been sentenced to death, and 710 had been executed. Of those executed, 697 were men and 13 women.
Killing of Vincent Chin. Vincent Jen Chin (Chinese: 陳果仁; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982) was an American draftsman of Chinese descent who was killed in a racially motivated assault [1][2][3] by two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz. [4] Ebens and Nitz assailed Chin ...
The first provincial lottery in Canada was Quebec's Inter-Loto in 1970. Other provinces and regions introduced their own lotteries through the 1970s, and the federal government ran Loto Canada (originally the Olympic Lottery) for several years starting in the late 1970s to help recoup the expenses of the 1976 Summer Olympics. Lottery wins are ...
Arthur B. English. Alexander Armstrong English (he used the pseudonym Arthur Ellis; 1864/1865 – 21 July 1938) was a British national who was the official hangman of Canada between 1912 and 1935. It is estimated he carried out more than 600 hangings in all of Canada's provinces and incorporated territories.
John Cage: 1912–1992 American Classical music composer G [16] Ece Ayhan Çağlar: 1931–2002 Turkish Poet G [17] Caitlin Cahow: b. 1985 American Ice hockey player L [18] Claude Cahun: 1894–1954 French Photographer, writer L [19] Roland Caillaux: 1905–1977 French Actor, illustrator G [20] Matt Cain: b. 1974 English Writer, podcaster G [21 ...