Terrorism Events

1920 Sep 16 Wall Street Bombing
One employee of J. P. Morgan & Co., William Joyce, of the securities department, was killed yesterday by the explosion in Wall Street between the Morgan and Co. building and the United St...
1946 Jul 22 King David Hotel bombing
The King David Hotel bombing was an attack by the right-wing Zionist underground movement, the Irgun, on the central offices of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine, the Secreta...
1970 May 8 Avivim school bus massacre
The Avivim school bus massacre was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on May 8, 1970 in which 12 Israeli civilians were killed, nine of them children, and 25 were wounded. The at...
1972 May 30 Lod Airport massacre
The Lod Airport massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred on May 30, 1972, in which three members of the Japanese Red Army, on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palest...
1972 Sep 5
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 Eleven Israeli athletes and coaches killed in Munich massacre
The Munich massacre is an informal name for events occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventu...
1978 Mar 11 Coastal Road massacre
The Coastal Road Massacre of 1978 was a Palestinian terrorist attack involving the hijacking of a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway in which 38 Israeli civilians were killed, 13 of them chi...
1979 Aug 27 Louis Mountbatten is Killed by an IRA Bomb While Vacationing
"The IRA claim responsibility for the execution of Lord Louis Mountbatten. This operation is one of the discriminate ways we can bring to the attention of the English people the continuing..." —The IRA
1979 Nov 14 President Carter Issues Executive Order 12170
In the United States, the hostage-taking is said to have created "a surge of patriotism" and left "the American people more united than they have been on any issue in two decades." The ac...
1980 Jan 27 'Canadian Caper' Covert Operation Succeeds in Rescuing Six American Diplomats
On January 27, 1980, the American diplomats, now travelling on Canadian passports, boarded a flight for Zürich, Switzerland, at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport. They arrived in the friendly nat...
1980 Apr 24 Operation Eagle Claw Begins
Operation Eagle Claw (or Operation Evening Light) was a United States military operation that attempted to rescue 52 American hostages from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran on 24 April 19...
1980 Sep 12 Ayatollah Khomeini Announces Conditions for Release of Hostages
The beginning of the end of the Iran hostage crisis occurred on September 12th, 1980, as Ayatollah Khomeini announced four conditions for the release of the hostages. The conditions we...
1980 Sep 18 First Aircraft Test Flight through Operation Credible Sport
The test bed aircraft (74-2065) was ready for its first test flight on September 18, 1980, just three weeks after the project was initiated. The first fully modified aircraft, AF Serial N...
1981 Jan 19 Iran Hostage Crisis Ends with the Signing of the Algiers Accords
On January 20, 1981, as Ronald Reagan became President, the hostages were flown from Teheran to Europe, and on to New York. The crisis was over. The lasting effects of the crisis we...
1985 Jun 23 Terrorists Bomb Air India Flight 182
Air India Flight 182 was an Air India flight operating on the Toronto-Montréal-London-Delhi-Bombay route. On 23 June 1985, the airplane operating on the route was blown up in midair by a ...
1985 Nov 23 EgyptAir Flight 648 is Hijacked by the Terrorist Abu Nidal Organization
On November 23, at 19:35 the EgyptAir Boeing 737 was hijacked by 3 men. The Egyptian security guard who was onboard shot and killed one of the hijackers before being shot and wounded hims...
1985 Dec 12 Arrow Air Flight 1285 Crash Sparks Controversy
Arrow Air Flight 1285 was a McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF jetliner, registered N950JW, which operated as an international charter flight carrying U.S. troops from Cairo to their home base i...
1985 Dec 27 Rome and Vienna airport attacks
The Rome and Vienna airport attacks were two major terrorist attacks carried out on December 27, 1985. On that day at 08:15 GMT, four gunmen walked to the ticket counter of Israel's El...
1986 Apr 3 TWA Flight 840 Attack
On April 3, 1986 a Trans World Airline flight was brought down by a bomb. The flight was number 840 and was on way from Cairo to Athens. It is believed that the bomb was planted by a pa...
1987 Nov 29 Korean Air Flight 858 Explodes Mid-Air From North Korean Bomb
Korean Air Flight 858 was en route from Abu Dhabi to Bangkok on 29 November 1987 when it exploded over the Andaman Sea killing all 115 on board. Two North Korean agents had boarded the pl...
1988 Dec 21 Lockerbie Bombing Kills 270
Pan Am Flight 103, also commonly referred to as the Lockerbie bombing, was the bombing of a Pan Am transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy Internat...
1989 Jul 6 Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 attack
The Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus 405 attack occurred on July 6, 1989. Abd al-Hadi Ghanayem, a Palestinian traveling in a crowded bus en route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem seized the steering whee...
1996 Jul 27 Centennial Olympic Park Bombing
Centennial Olympic Park was designed as the "town square" of the Olympics, and thousands of spectators had gathered for a late concert by the band Jack Mack and the Heart Attack. Sometime...
1998 Aug 7 1998 United States Embassy Bombing
The U.S. embassies located in Nariobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed by terrorists representing the jihad of Osama bin Laden and Ayman-al Zawahiri. The attack killed 301 p...
1999 Dec 31 Y2K Panic masks fear of terrorism
In 1999 although bin Laden had declared war against the US and was now on the FBI's Most Wanted List, his threats still did not receive the attention they deserved. This was because most ...
2000 Oct 12 USS Cole is Bombed
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack against the United States Navy destroyer USS Cole on October 12, 2000, while it was harbored and refueled in the Yemen port of Aden. Seventeen Am...
2000 Dec 30 Rizal Day Bombings
THE horror brought by the bombing of a packed commuter trains in Manila on December 30, 2000, by a group of renegade Islamic extremist continues to haunt the police. Some 20 people die...
2001 Jun 1 Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing
The Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing was a terrorist attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on June 1, 2001 in which a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a discotheque on a bea...
2001 Aug 9 Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing
Location: Jerusalem 2:00 pm – Attack type: suicide bomber Deaths: 15 Injured: 130 Perpetrator(s): Hamas The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing was a Palestinian terrorist attack on...
2001 Sep 11 American Airlines Flight 77 Crashes into Pentagon
American Airlines Flight 77 was the third flight hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks, and it was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon. The scheduled U.S. domestic flight from W...
2001 Sep 11 Hijacked American Airlines Flights 11 and 175 Crash into the World Trade Center's North and South Towers, Destroying Both
This was one of those events where I remembered exactly where I was and what I was doing. I had arrived at my office at 541 N. Fairbanks in Chicago when my wife called to tell me that a p...
2001 Sep 11 United Airlines Flight 93 Crashes in Pennsylvania Field
United Airlines Flight 93 was a United States domestic passenger flight from Newark International Airport in Newark, NJ, to San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, CA, that ...
2002 Mar 27 Passover massacre
Location: Netanya Attack type: suicide bomber Deaths: 30 Perpetrator(s): Hamas The Passover massacre (also known as the Netanya Bombing or the Park Hotel Passover attack) was a suic...
2002 Mar 31 Matza restaurant suicide bombing
Location: Haifa, Israel Attack type: suicide bomber Deaths: 16 Injured: 40+ Perpetrator(s): Hamas The Matza restaurant suicide bombing occurred on March 31, 2002, when a Palestinia...
2004 Mar 2 The Ashura Massacre Leaves At Least 178 Dead in Iraq
The Ashura massacre of March 2, 2004 in Iraq was a series of planned terrorist explosions that killed at least 178 and injured at least 500 Iraqi Shi'a Muslims commemorating the Day of As...
2004 Sep 9 2004 Australia Embassy Bombing
The Indonesian government blamed terrorists linked to al-Qaeda for a suicide car bombing early Thursday outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. At least nine people were killed and 173...
2009 Jun More than 40 killed in U.S. drone strikes on Taliban Stronghold
At least 43 people have died in missile strikes by a US drone aircraft in a militant stronghold of Pakistan, a Taliban spokesman has told the BBC. The people killed in South Waziristan...
2009 Jun 24 Bomb Kills At Least 69 in Baghdad
On June 24, 2009, an explosion occurred in the Muraidi Market of the Sadr City area of Baghdad, Iraq. At least 69 people were killed and 150 others injured. An official said that the expl...
2009 Jun 30 Michael Scheuer on Glenn Beck Suggests The US Should Be Attacked
An incoherent mess rambled from the side of one's mouth is not an unusual notion on Fox 'News' Channel's "Glenn Beck" (neither is a denim suit replete with denim tie). This instance was ...
2009 Aug 19 A Series of Bomb Attacks Kill 95 in One Hour in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A series of bombings rocked Iraq's capital within one hour Wednesday, killing at least 95 people and wounding 563 others, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. ...
2009 Aug 20 Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Convicted "Lockerbie Bomber", Granted Release by Scottish Officials
On 20 August 2009, despite protests from political figures on both sides of the Atlantic, the Scottish Government Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill granted Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrah...
2009 Sep 14
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 A Supposed Osama bin Laden Audio Tape Surfaces Following the Eighth Anniversary of The September 11th Attacks
(CNN) -- An audio message purportedly from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has accused President Barack Obama of being unable to fulfil his election pledge to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq...
2009 Sep 17 Noordin Mohammad Top, Indonesia's Most Wanted Islamic Militant, Is Killed in a Police Raid
Noordin Mohammad Top, aka Noordin Muh Top, Noordin Mat Top, and Noordin Din Moch Top (11 August 1968 – 17 September 2009) was Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militant. Born in Kluang, Joh...
2009 Sep 19 Federal Agents Arrest Najibullah Zazi as Suspect in Terror Probe
Federal agents on Saturday arrested a Colorado man who had been under surveillance as part of an anti-terrorism investigation that came to light in a series of New York City raids this we...
2009 Sep 25 Najibullah Zazi, Suspected of 9/11 Bombing Plot, Arrives in New York
The divorce lawyer representing the Colorado man charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction is assembling a defense team for New York criminal proceedings. Attorney Ar...
2009 Nov 10 Presdient Obama Leads Memorial Service for Those Killed in Ft. Hood Shooting
Thousands of family, friends, and fellow soldiers crowded into a memorial service at Fort Hood, Texas, on Tuesday to pay tribute to the 13 men and women killed at the post last Thursday, ...
2009 Nov 12 Maj. Nidal Hasan has been Officially Charged with 13 Counts of Murder in the Fort Hood Shooting
Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of opening fire on soldiers at Fort Hood last week, has been charged with premeditated murder in the deaths of 12 soldiers and a civilia...
2009 Dec 26 Passengers on Delta Airlines Jet Overwhelm Man Attempting Terrorist Act
A Nigerian man tried to light a powder aboard a commercial jetliner before it landed Friday in Detroit in what senior U.S. officials called an attempted act of terrorism. Flight 253 wi...
2009 Dec 28 Al Qaeda Group Claims Responsibility for Airline Bombing Attempt
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the branch of the extremist group based in Yemen, appeared to claim responsibility for the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound jet, ratch...
2009 Dec 28 Barack Obama Vows Full Investigation of Attempted Plane Bombing and Review of Terrorism Watchlist
President Barack Obama yesterday ordered an urgent review of how authorities use terrorist watch-lists to foil attacks on US targets after a Nigerian allegedly tried to destroy a transatl...
2009 Dec 28 Transportation Security Administration Announce Tighter Security Following Failed Terror Attack
The Transportation Security Administration on Monday tweaked some new restrictions imposed on flights to the U.S. from international destinations, giving additional discretion to cockpit ...