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A History of Violence

January 1971	At Stanford University, tenured associate professor H. Bruce Franklin incites protesting students to break into and occupy the Computation Center, claiming it is "machinery of war". The crowd cut the power to the computers, and a student threw a chair at a memory unit, causing $100 in damage. Franklin was later stripped of his tenure.
6 October 1981	During the annual victory parade in Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated by members of his own army, who fire their rifles for over a minute. Bystanders threw chairs at Sadat in an attempt to protect him from the bullets.
23 February 1985	During a game against the Purdue Boilermakers, Indiana Hoosiers coach Bobby Knight throws a chair across the court after receiving a technical foul for protesting an official's call. He receives another technical foul, and is ejected and suspended for one game.
3 November 1988	While taping an episode of Geraldo about neo-Nazis, a fight breaks out between black activist Roy Innis and the leader of the White Aryan Resistance Youth. A chair is thrown, striking Geraldo Rivera in the face and breaking his nose. Rivera enters the fray, repeatedly punching one of the white supremacists.
2 July 1991	At a Guns N' Roses concert in Missouri, Axl Rose jumps into the crowd and seizes a fan's video camera. Citing the venue's poor security, Rose ends the show early, and disgruntled fans riot and throw dozens of chairs onto the stage.
1991-present	On The Jerry Springer Show, guests frequently have violent confrontations over sensitive personal subjects, often throwing chairs at each other. Jerry stays well out of the way, and the show garners unusually high ratings.
25 September 1995	Members of the Sigma Epsilon Phi fraternity at the University of Arkansas hurl a chair (and racial slurs) at Carlton Bailey, a black law professor who was taking pictures of the "Sambo" statue in front of their house. The fraternity later apologized and removed the statue, but was suspended by its national chapter.
13 November 1996	In Jerusalem, Orthodox Jews throw chairs at a group of women who had gathered to pray at the Western Wall, the holiest site of Judaism.
21 October 1997	A fight erupts at the assembly of Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, with legislators throwing punches, chairs and microphone stands. Several members of the 425-person assembly were injured; what sparked the brawl was not immediately known.
14 March 2000	A 7-year-old boy is suspended for the seventh time in a year after kicking a teacher and throwing a chair in music class. He was sent to the principal's office, where he proceeded to throw another chair.
14 February 2001	In Delhi, a group of Hindu conservatives opposed to Valentine's Day entered a restaurant crowded with young lovers and began throwing chairs.
October-December 2003	At the Abu Ghraib prison, members of the 372nd Military Police Company beat inmates with a chair, among other things.
13 September 2004	During a game against the Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers pitcher Frank Francisco throws a folding chair into the right field box seats after being heckled. The chair hit a man in the head, bounced, struck a woman on her left temple and broke her nose.
11 November 2004	Upon hearing that software developer Mark Lucovsky plans to join Google, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer throws a chair across his office and exclaims that he's "going to fucking kill Google". Ballmer later describes the incident as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place".
19 December 2004	At a YMCA in Chicago, children arriving for a swim meet encountered the "House of Escada" transgender/crossdressing fashion show due to a scheduling error. Angry parents confronted the guests, a chair was thrown and an altercation ensued.
2005-present	On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer throws a chair and provides stock advice during the show's "Lightning Round" segment. Cramer hates sitting down on the job, and considers chairs "the enemy".
17 March 2005	At a hotel in Nairobi, members of Somalia's interim parliament threw heavy metal chairs and beat each other with clubs and walking sticks after voting against sending regional troops to Somalia. The commerce minister and two MPs were later detained by Kenyan police.
26 October 2005	Police arrest an 11-year-old girl at school after she throws a chair at a school employee, punches the principal, and causes a "riot" in a special education classroom.
11 April 2006	In Ogden, Utah, a transient threw chairs and pocket change at a bar before going outside, knocking over one tree and uprooting another. He was arrested after setting fire to a wooden sidewalk frame and claiming "God did it".
5 August 2006	On The Bleeping Truth, a Tampa public access talk show, Tony Katz and Joe Redner debate Israel and trade insults. After Redner calls Katz "fat boy", Katz storms offstage before throwing a chair at Redner. Redner did not press charges, but later challenged Katz to a boxing match for charity.
September 2006	A janitor throws three chairs at Danny the Tourette's Guy after he clogs a toilet with too much paper.
21 January 2007	Outside a Melbourne nightclub, Liam Peart throws a chair at Shafique el-Fahkri in a random attack, embedding the chair's metal leg in el-Fahkri's eye socket. In a three-hour operation, the chair leg was removed, and el-Fahkri has since regained 95% of his sight.
28 March 2007	At the Hoboken City Hall, Mayor David Roberts and City Clerk and School Board President James Farina allegedly exchange blows, and Farina throws a chair at Roberts. A lamp and conference table were damaged, and staffers restrained the men until police arrived. Farina was escorted out, yelling "David is a backstabber!"
31 March 2007	A 6-year-old girl is arrested, handcuffed and jailed after throwing a chair and hitting a teacher at school. She faces charges of disruption of a school function, battery on school employees and resisting arrest.
13 April 2007	Pretentious internet moron "Jipsi Kinnear", who wears sunglasses indoors and uses a black-and-white webcam, throws a chair at his camera after someone threatens to rape his 10-year-old daughter.
25 April 2007	On the set of MTV's Making the Band, Sean "Diddy" Combs allegedly throws a chair at his (former) choreographer, Laurie Ann Gibson.
3 May 2007	At a Leesburg, Florida elementary school, a 12-year-old boy punches his classmates and whips them with his belt, injuring five. He throws a chair at teachers, and is arrested for assault and battery. The boy was later released to his parents, and claims he blacked out and has no recollection of the incident.
8 May 2007	While leaving a Hollywood club, actor Gabriel Byrne is confronted by paparazzi and throws a chair at a photographer, breaking a camera light.
5 June 2007	Stage manager Beatrice Eliza files a lawsuit alleging that actor Faizon Love attacked her after she resisted his sexual advances. She claims that on the set of Irresponsible Behavior, an argument over a bathroom key escalated when Love chased her around a table, threw chairs at her, and flung her Gucci handbag from a second-floor window.
14 June 2007	In Hemet, California, 42-year-old Mary Duarte rams her pickup truck into another truck, veers off the road and crashes through a window of the California Vein Center. She then throws a chair at a witness and fights with two officers before being tasered and taken into custody.

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