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Victoria Day (in French: Fête de la Reine ) is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday before May 25, in honor of Queen Victoria 's birthday. In 2012, Victoria Day was celebrated on Monday, May 21st. On a warm and sunny Victoria Day holiday morning in Canada, a man climbed over a railing 20 to 30 feet out over the Horseshoe Falls, the tallest of the three main falls, and “deliberately jumped” into the Niagara River, according to witness accounts given to Niagara Parks Police.  The 30-something-unidentified man survived the plunge of at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls — only the third person known to have done so without a safety device. He is shown being rescued above. Officials report two suicide attempts at Niagara Falls this week. A day earlier, on May 20th, a 13-year-old boy was saved from the edge of a 270-foot waterfall northeast of Seattle, Washington State. The rescue made for dramatic video . The boy had been wading in a river when he lost hi...

Indiana state police are reporting that a person has been shot at a middle school in central Indiana and the 15-year-old shooter is in custody. Sgt. Kirk Durnil says the male victim (15 year old Chance Jackson) was shot twice in the stomach Friday morning, March 25, 2011, at West Middle School in Martinsville, Indiana.  Durnil did not identify the shooter or the victim at the school, some 30 miles south of Indianapolis.  WRTV notes the shooter is a recently expelled student. The Location Martinsville  is a city in and the  county seat  of  Morgan County ,  Indiana ,  United States ; the population was 11,828 at the  2010 census .  Once dubbed the “ Goldfish  Capital of the World,” today Martinsville has several large fisheries that sell fish to many parts of the world. From 1888 until 1968 visitors sought out the many artesian mineral water heath spas (called sanitariums then) of Martinsville for health benefits. Over the cours...