List of terrorist incidents

Acts and failed attempts that can be considered terrorism. However, depending one's allegiance, these acts might be seen as freedom fighting. For example, in the 20th century, Jesse James was portrayed nearly always as a hero.

Table of contents

1 19th Century 2 1910s-1960s 3 1970s 4 1980s 5 1990s 6 2000s 7 External links, resources, references

19th Century

• 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

1910s-1960s

• 1910 A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California killed 21 workers.
• 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, precipitating World War I.
• 1920 A bomb exploded on Wall Street in New York City, killing 30 people and wounding 400 others.
• 1946 Bombing of King David Hotel, the British Army HQ, by the Zionist terrorist group Irgun.
• 1948 Deir Yassin massacre
• 1953 Qibya massacre
• 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls.
• 1969 A bomb in a Bank killed 16 people in Milan

1970s

• 1970 October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross
• 1970 Nahariya/Avivim School Bus Attack by Palestinian PLO terrorists
• 1972 Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists
• 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre by Black September
• 1972 Bloody Friday nine are killed and many injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) set off 22 bombs.
• 1974 Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves 5 dead and 44 injured.
• 1974 Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 19, 182 people are injured.
• 1974 Kiryat Shmona Massacre at an apartment building By the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Palestinian terrorists
• 1974 Maalot Massacre at the Maalot High School in Northern Israel by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Palestinian terrorists
• 1974 UVF detonate 3 car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan
• 1975 Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel guest attacked by Palestinian PLO terrorists
• 1976 Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (Tel-Aviv-Paris) and the following Operation Entebbe
• 1976 Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government
• 1978-1995 The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings
• 1978 Palestinian Fatah terrorists on the Tel Aviv - Haifa highway kill 34 Israelis.
• 1979 Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA

1980s

• 1980 Archbishop Oscar Romero assassinated by Death squads in El Salvador
• 1980 Four US nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
• 1980 Neo-Fascist bomb kills more than 80 people in Bologna railway station
• 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 US Embassy bombing kills 63 in Beirut, Lebanon.
• 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in October kills 241 US Marines.
• 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 Flight 847 hijacking; one US citizen killed.
• 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front
• 1985 IRA mortar attack kills nine soldiers in Newry
• 1985 Air India flight 182 is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada by Sikh nationalists. All 329 passengers are killed.
• 1985 EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
• 1985 Palestinian terrorists kill twenty people inside Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport near Rome and Vienna International Airport in Vienna.
• 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.
• 1986 TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; 4 Americans, including an infant, are killed.
• 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing On April 6, the La Belle discotheque, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible.
• 1987 Enniskillen massacre. Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh is bombed by the IRA and 11 are killed and 63 injured
• 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing (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

1990s

• 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 Israeli Embassy destroyed by car bomb in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 die.
• 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 13 bombs, mainly packed in cars, go off in Mumbai, India, killing 257 people and wounding more than 1,100.
• 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 Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 86 and wounds 300.
• 1994 Baruch Goldstein machine gun attack on mosque in Hebron.
• 1994 Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.
• 1994 A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack.
• 1995 Operation Bojinka is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment.
• 1995 1995 Tokyo Sarin Attack
• 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
• 1995 Bombing of military compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• 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
• 1996 Khobar Towers bombing
• 1998 U.S. embassy bombings
• 1998 Omagh bombing by the so-called "Real IRA" kills 29.
• 1999 Gunmen opened fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25.
• 1999 David Copeland nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London.
• 1999 Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the US-Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 celebration terrorist attacks plot
• 1999 Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 celebration terrorist attacks plot
• 1999 Indian Airlines Flight 814, which just took off from Kathmandu, Nepal for Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India is hijacked, one passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released

2000s

• 2000 The last part of the 2000 celebration terrorist attacks plot fails, as the boat meant to bomb the USS The Sullivans sinks
• 2000 Beginning of a campaign of attacks on civilians in Israel - see Terrorism against Israel in 2000.
• 2000 USS Cole bombing
• 2000 German police foil plot to attack a cathedral in Strasbourg, France
• 2001 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack ("9/11") kills thousands in New York, and hundreds in Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania.
• 2001 Paris embassy terrorist attack plot foiled
• 2001 December 13, 2001 Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
• 2001 Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians continue - see Terrorism against Israel in 2001.
• 2001 Richard Reid attempts to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb
• 2002 Singapore embassies terrorist attack plot foiled
• 2002 June 14 terrorist attack outside US Consulate in Karachi
• 2002 Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen
• 2002 Murder of Daniel Pearl
• 2002 Bali car bombing of holidaymakers
• 2002 Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines
• 2002 Moscow theatre siege
• 2002 Most deadly year of Palestinian terror campaign against Israel, including the Passover Massacre in which 30 people are killed - see Terrorism against Israel in 2002.
• 2002 Kenyan hotel bombing
• 2003 Palestinian terror attacks against Israel continue - see Terrorism against Israel in 2003.
• 2003 Chechen militants carry out several deadly suicide bombings across Russia and nearby provinces, killing more than 250 people.
• May 12, 2003 - Suicide bombings of a United States expat housing compound in Saudi Arabia killed 29 and injured 160 in 4 attacks. Al-Qaeda 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-Qaeda influence not ruled out."
• August 19, 2003- Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq kills 22 people including the top UN representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello.
• 2003 In response to the US invasion of Iraq, terrorists in that country stage dozens of suicide bombings targeting Iraqi and Coalition targets.
• 2003 Within five days, truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey.

See also: aircraft hijacking, Palestinian terrorism, Israeli terrorism, IRA, suicide bombing, assassinations, Dupont Plaza Hotel, GIA

External links, resources, references

• Dmoz.org's Society Issues - Terrorism Incidents
• Terrorism Time Line
• History of Terrorism : Timeline of Terrorist Acts - Chronology
• Thinkquest : Timeline of Terror
• Time.com: A Timeline of Terrorism - Hits and Misses
• Infoplease : Terrorist Attacks on Americans
• Infoplease : Terrorist Attacks (within the United States or against Americans abroad)
• Frontline : Terrorist Attacks on Americans