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List of terrorist incidents
(Redirected from Terrorist incident)
The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered terrorism. Massacres more generally are listed chronologically at List of massacres; assassinations are listed by location at List of assassinated people.
Note: there is no single accepted definition of terrorism in common use. Incidents listed here are commonly called terrorism, or meet some of the commonly used criteria.
Pre-11th century
11th-18th century
19th century
1900s-1940s
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1910, October 1: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California, United States, killed 21 workers.
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1914, June 28: Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I.
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1920, September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 40 people and wounding 300 others.
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1946, July 22: Bombing of King David Hotel, the British Army HQ in Jerusalem, by the Zionist terrorist group Irgun.
1950s
1960s
1970s
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
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January 24: FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50
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March 5: PLO gunmen from Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel eventually killing eight hostages and three IDF soldiers, and wounding 11 hostages.
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July 31: Three members of Ireland's popular Miami Showband killed in UVF gun attack.
1976
1977
1978
1979
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July 29: Basque ETA members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing 7.
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August 27: Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA bomb on board his boat off Mullaghmore. The same day two IRA bombs kill 18 British Soldiers near Warrenpoint.
1980s
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
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April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; 4 Americans, including an infant, are killed.
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April 6: the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing three and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible. In retaliation, the US bombs Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon and tries to kill Colonel Qaddafi.
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June 14: ANC bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban, South Africa, 3 people killed, 73 wounded.
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July 15: ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, kills 12.
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September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.
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December 25: Iraqi Airways Hijacking
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December 31: New Year's Eve fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, claimed 97 lives, mainly in the casino area. Fire set by 3 hotel workers, trying to make tourists stay away from Puerto Rico as a protest to their working wages.
1987
1988
1989
1990s
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000s
2000
2001
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Terrorism against Israel in 2001.
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February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
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August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
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The attacks on September 11 kill almost 3,000 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
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Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
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Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
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December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
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Jewish Defense League plot to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, foiled.
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Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
2002
2003
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Terrorism against Israel in 2003.
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March 4: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21.
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May 12: Bombings of United States expat housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
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May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.
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May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
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May 16: Casablanca Attacks by 12 bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.
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July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.
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August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.
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August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
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August 29: Car bomb outside Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, kills more than 80 people, including SCIRI leader Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.
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September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90.
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October 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.
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October 15: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans.
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November 15 and November 20: Truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings.
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December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia
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December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least 11.
2004
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Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004.
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February 1: 109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq.
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February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41.
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February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
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March 2: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.
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March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160.
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March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.
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March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.
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March 22: Israeli helicopter gunship assassinates Ahmed Yassin.
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April 21: Basra bombs in Iraq kill 74 and injure hundreds.
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April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5.
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May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamist militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
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August 24: Russian airplane bombings kill 90.
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August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
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September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in over 330 dead.
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September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people.
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October 7: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 32 and wounding 114, most of them Israeli tourists.
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November 2: Theo van Gogh, a Dutch film maker, is assassinated in Amsterdam by a radical Islamist.
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December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 5 local employees.
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December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos , Philippines, kills 15.
2005
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February 28: About 125 Iraqis killed by a suicide car bomb outside a medical centre in Hilla, south of Baghdad.
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March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds 12 others.
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April 7: A suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. A group called "Islamic Pride Brigades " claims responsibility.
See also
External links, resources, references
Last updated: 05-07-2005 13:21:13
Last updated: 09-12-2005 02:39:13
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