This day in music history.

January 29, 1979, Troubled teenager Brenda Spencer killed two people and wounded nine others when she fired into the entrance of San Diego's Grover Cleveland Elementary School. Spencer used the .22-caliber rifle that her father had given her for Christmas. When asked why she did it, she answered "I don't like Mondays". The Boomtown Rats went on to write and record a song based on the event. It became the Rats' second million seller in England and was voted 1979s "Single of the Year" in the British Pop and Rock awards.
I Dont Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload,
And nobody's gonna go to school today,
She's going to make them stay at home,
And daddy doesn't understand it,
He always said she was as good as gold,
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown
Tell me why
I don't like Mondays
I want to shoot
The whole day down
The Telex machine is kept so clean
As it types to a waiting world,
And Mother feels so shocked,
Father's world is rocked,
And their thoughts turn to their own little girl
Sweet 16 ain't that peachy keen,
No, it ain't so neat to admit defeat,
They can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown
Tell me why ...
All the playing's stopped in the playground now
She wants to play with her toys a while
And school's out early and soon we'll be learning
And the lesson today is how to die,
And then the bullhorn crackles,
And the captain crackles,
With the problems and the how's and why's
And he can see no reasons
Cos there are no reasons
What reason do you need to die
Tell me why ...