Today in History: Gas Attack!

On this day (June 27) in 1994, eight people were killed and 500 injured when Aum Shinrikyo cultists released sarin gas in Matsumoto. The cultists believed that nuclear Armageddon was coming and that only members of their cult would survive. The attack was an assassination attempt on three judges who the cult expected to rule against them in a land dispute. They also wanted to test how deadly their sarin gas was.