Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Today is May 21. Terror struck a high school in Eugene, Ore., on this date in 1998, when a 15-year-old student opened fire on his classmates in the school cafeteria. Two teen-agers were killed and 22 others wounded. Other students wrestled the shooter to the ground. When police went to the boy's house, they found his parents had also been shot to death -- probably the day before. Advertisement It was on this date in 1941 that President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed "an unlimited state of national emergency," seven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that catapulted the United States into World War II. The first Democratic national convention was held in Baltimore, Md., on this date in 1832. Patti Frustaci of Orange, Calif., gave birth to the first recorded American septuplets on this date in 1985. She had taken fertility drugs. Six of the seven infants were born alive. Three ultimately survived. And it was on this date in 1958, during what turned out to be his last studio session, that Buddy Holly recorded four songs -- including "It Doesn't Matter Anymore." Holly would die in a plane crash in Feb. 1959. Advertisement We now return you to the present, already in progress.
