List of terrorist incidents
Acts generally internationally referred to as terrorism. * 1856, 1858, 1859, raids by John Brown in his fight against slavery. * 1865 - 1882 Jesse James and his gang attack "Northern" railroads and banks in personal continuation of the American Civil War * 1946 Bombing of King David Hotel, the British HQ, by the Jewish underground. * 1948 Deir Yassin massacre * 1953 Qibya massacre * 1963 A member of the Ku Klux Klan opposed to civil rights in Birmingham, Alabama bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Four girls were killed. * 1969 A bomb in a Bank killed 16 people in Milan * 1970 October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross * 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre * 1972 Bloody Friday nine are killed and many injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) set of 22 bombs. * 1974 Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 44 injured. * 1974 Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 19 dead, 182 people are injured. * 1974 Maalot Massacre at the Maalot High School in Northern Israel * 1976 Hijacking of Tel-Aviv-Paris Flight 139 and the following Operation Entebbe * 1976 UVF detonate a car bomb in Monaghan * 1976 UVF detonate a car bomb in Dublin * 1976 Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government * 1978 - 1995 The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings * 1978 Palestinian terrorists on the Tel Aviv Haifa highway kill 34 Israelis. * 1979 Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA * 1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated by Death squads in El Salvador * 1980 Four US nuns killed by Death squads in El Salvador * 1980 A bomb in a railway station killed more than 80 people in Bologna * 1982 Two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park, London by the IRA killl 8 members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets seven horses are also killed. * 1983 Harrods bomb by the IRA. Six are killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London department store. * 1984 IRA bomb in the Grand Hotel Brighton 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet. * 1985 TWA 847 hijacking * 1985 - Palestinian guerrillas kill twenty people inside Rome and Vienna airports. * 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front * 1985 IRA mortar attack kills nine soldiers in Newry * 1986 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 Enniskillen massacre. Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh is bombed by the IRA and 11 are killed and 63 injured * 1988 1988 Pan Am 103 (Lockerbie) * 1989 Ten Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent is bombed by the IRA. * 1989 UTA Flight UT-772 * 1990 A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave 7 people dead and 37 wounded. * 1991 Two IRA members are killed by their own bomb in St Albans. * 1992 Eight Protestant builders killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh. * 1993 World Trade Center bombing * 1993 IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children. * 1993 IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage. * 1993 A bomb at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills 10 people, including two children. * 1994 Flight AF 8969 Alger-Paris hijacked by Muslims who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed. * 1995 1995 Tokyo Sarin Attack * 1995 Oklahoma City bombing * 1996 A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 67 dead and 161 wounded within 10 days. * 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111. * 1996 IRA break their cease-fire and kill two in a bomb at the Canary Wharf towers in London. * 1996 Manchester bombing by IRA * 1997 Khobar Towers bombing * 1998 U.S. embassy bombings * 1998 Omagh bombing by the so-called "Real IRA" kills 29. * 1999 Gunmen opened fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25. * 2000-2002 Israel is subjected to a campaign of attacks on civilians that leave 400 dead. * 2001 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack kills thousands in New York, and hundreds in Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania * 2002 June 14 terrorist attack outside US Consulate in Karachi * 2002 Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen * 2002 Bali car bombing of holidaymakers * 2002 Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines * 2002 Moscow theatre siege * 2002 Kenyan hotel bombing * 2003 double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, 22 dead, about 100 wounded * May 12, 2003 - Suicide bombings of a United States expat housing compound in Saudi Arabia killed 29 and injured 160 in 4 attacks. Al-Queda blamed. * May 16, 2003 - Suicide bombing in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 31 dead. The attack involved 12 bombers and 5 targets. The targets were "Western and Jewish". Attack attributed to al-Assirat al-Moustaquim, a Moroccon group but "al-Queda influence not ruled out."
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