Terrorism timeline
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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Avivim school bus massacre
The Avivim school bus massacre was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus on May 22, 1970 in which 12 Israeli civilians were killed, nine of... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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'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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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.... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing was a bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Timothy McVeigh... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more
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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... Read more