On 18 May 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the school board treasurer of Bath Township, Michigan, set off explosives he had hidden under the Bath Consolidated School. The bombing killed 38 people, most of them children. Earlier that day Kehoe had murdered his wife and destroyed his farm with explosives. When rescuers arrived, he drove a truck loaded with explosives to the school and detonated it, killing himself and four others. Kehoe was angry about rising taxes, had lost a township clerk election in April 1926, and faced a foreclosure on his mortgage. Over the year he had secretly bought and hidden explosives on his property and under the school. Searchers later found another 500 pounds of explosives under the south wing, set to detonate at the same time. The attack remains the deadliest school attack in US history.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.