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2013 Event - Canada's Security Intelligence Service believes the presence of Al-Qaeda affiliated groups in the country may lead to possible attacks

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed

2012 Event - The U.S. commemorates the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and for the first time no special security alert is issued on the anniversary of the attacks

2012 Event - Syria accuses Ban Ki-moon, Secretary of the United Nations, of 'encouraging attacks on the government'

2012 Event - Jose Garc’a-Margallo y Marfil, Spain's foreign minister, attacks Argentina's decision to nationalize the Argentine oil company YPF

2012 Event - Nearly 2,000 Malawi women protest against attacks on women wearing trousers by unemployed youths and street vendors

2011 Event - Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, attacks Britain, claiming the students represent Iran's public opinion

2011 Event - Memorial ceremonies are held worldwide to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks

2010 Event - International shark experts are called to investigate attacks on tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh that included one fatality

2010 Event - At least 38 are killed and 60 injured when two female suicide bombers carry out two separate terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyana and Park Kultury

2010 Event - Suicide bombers carry out a number of attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 17 people

2009 Event - A Pakistan court charges seven suspects involved in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai

2008 Event - Mumbai terrorist attacks kill over 195 people over four days

2001 Event - U.S. launches strikes against the Taleban in Afghanistan, in retaliation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US.

1997 Event - GS Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, attacks his coach P J Carlesimo

1997 Event - TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant

1997 Event - Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital

1994 Event - IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport

1993 Event - New York Islanders beat Washington Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot

1993 Event - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay

1992 Event - Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die

1991 Event - Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az

1989 Event - Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt

1986 Event - ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5

1986 Event - U.S. aircraft attacks 5 terrorist locations in Libya

1985 Event - Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels

1984 Event - Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23

1982 Event - IRA bomb attacks in London

1982 Event - Israel attacks targets in south Lebanon

1976 Birthday - Lukas Hass, actor, Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box

1974 Event - Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus

1973 Event - Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed

1967 Event - Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen

1963 Event - Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama

1961 Event - White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama

1956 Event - Jordan attacks United Nations Palestine force

1956 Event - Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin

1955 Event - Israel attacks Gaza

1955 Event - EOKA-bomb attacks against British government buildings in Cyprus

1953 Event - French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu

1948 Event - Arab legion attacks Gesher bridge on Jordan River

1946 Event - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi

1945 Event - U.S. Task Force 58 attacks ships near Kobe/Kure

1945 Event - 1,250 U.S. bombers attacks Berlin

1945 Event - U.S. Task Force 58 attacks targets on Kiushu

1945 Event - U.S. 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine

1944 Event - U.S. 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen

1944 Event - U.S. 15th Air Force attacks Friedrichshaven Memmingen

1944 Event - Japanese kamakize attacks on U.S. lines at Saipan

1944 Event - U.S. attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea

1944 Event - 1st SS-Pantser corps counter attacks at Normandy

1943 Event - Dutch submarine attacks Island Hertenbeest in NW Bali

1941 Event - Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar

1941 Event - Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia

1941 Event - Germany attacks Moscow

1941 Event - German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan

1941 Event - Germany attacks the Soviet Union and occupies the Baltic states

1941 Event - Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die)

1941 Event - Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam by young Jews

1940 Event - Luftwaffe attacks center of London

1940 Event - Battle of Britain began as Germany launches air attacks

1940 Event - Soviet Army attacks Romania

1939 Event - Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union

1939 Event - British fleet attacks German U-39 boat

1935 Event - Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1931 Event - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol

1928 Event - Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter

1920 Event - French troop attacks Main/Darmstadt/Hanau

1917 Event - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks

1916 Event - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near New Jersey shore (4 die)

1914 Event - British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne

1911 Event - Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica

1906 Event - Venezuela (under vice-president Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet

1906 Event - U.S. president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo

1875 Event - White Democrats kill several blacks in terrorist attacks in Vicksburg

1866 Event - Prussia attacks Austria

1865 Event - Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft. Fisher NC, 40 die

1864 Event - Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8449 Confederate, 3641 U.S. die

1864 Event - Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River

1864 Event - General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock

1863 Event - Stonewall Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men

1863 Event - Rebel General Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tennessee

1861 Event - Battle of Carthage, Missouri - U.S. General Sigel attacks pro-secessionist

1861 Event - Battle of Mathias Point, Virginia - U.S. attacks Confederate batteries

1861 Event - Col Bernard Irwin attacks and defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians

1836 Event - Mexico attacks Alamo in the early morning

1835 Event - Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine

1826 Event - Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed

1815 Event - U.S. naval hero Stephen Decatur ends attacks by Algerian pirates

1813 Event - British warship Pelican attacks and captures U.S. war brigantine Argus

1780 Event - Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London

1776 Event - 1st (failed) submarine attack (David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacks British sailboat "Eagle" in Bay of New York)

1694 Event - Dutch fleet attacks French grain transports

1694 Event - Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale

1683 Event - Turkish troops attacks Vienna overthrows by Polish king Sobieski

1664 Event - Turkish great Koprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers

1642 Event - King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament

1631 Event - Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg

1628 Event - Java sultan Agung van Mataram attacks Batavia

1575 Event - Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater

1552 Event - Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun

917 Event - Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines













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