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 Army HQ, by the Zionist terrorist group Irgun.
- 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
- 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 Septmeber
- 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 dead, 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 Font for the Liberation of Palestine Palestinian terrorists
- 1975 Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel guest attacked by Palestinian PLO terrorists
- 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 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
- 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 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 terrorists 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.
- 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
- 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 Baruch Goldstein machine gun attack on mosque in Hebron.
- 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 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.
- 2000 Beginning of a campaign of attacks on civilians in Israel - see Terrorism against Israel in 2000.
- 2001 September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack kills thousands in New York, and hundreds in Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania.
- 2001 December 13, 2001 Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
- 2001 Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians continue - see Terrorism against Israel in 2001.
- 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 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.
- 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."
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