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2007 Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a bomb blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
2006 17 Islamic men are arrested in a plot to bomb targets in Toronto 1997 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40 1997 William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert, dies at 79 1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured 1996 Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78 1996 Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87 1995 Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb 1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B. Murray 1995 Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed 1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed) 1995 Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed) 1995 Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured 1995 Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed 1995 Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone 1994 Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City 1994 Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed 1994 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22 1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon, Panama, 21 killed 1994 Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed 1994 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran, 70 killed 1994 Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed 1994 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed 1993 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead 1993 IRA bomb attack on fish and chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed 1993 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans 1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) 1993 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1 1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta 1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay 1991 Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party - Assistant Secretary of state 1991 Ad Kosto, Dutch state secretary (PvdA), assassinated by bomb 1991 Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46 1988 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated 1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border 1988 Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches 1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes 1987 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed 1987 Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65 1987 Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed 1987 Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed 1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead 1986 Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed 1986 Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed 1986 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran 1986 Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed 1986 Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed 1986 ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5 1986 4 U.S. passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece 1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed 1985 Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb 1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die 1985 Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11 1985 Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India 1985 "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels 1985 Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels 1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java 1984 Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 1984 Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed 1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua 1983 Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured 1983 A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait 1983 A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis 1983 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut 1983 Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries 1983 Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed 1983 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut 1983 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France 1982 Bomb attack on Londonderry, North Ireland disco, 17 killed 1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland 1982 Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700 1982 Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb 1982 Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb 1982 IRA bomb attacks in London 1982 BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina 1981 Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured 1981 Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed 1980 Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed 1980 Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed 1979 IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market 1979 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland 1979 Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb 1979 Ali Hassan Salameh, Abu Hassan, killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes 1978 Aerosmith's Steve Tyler and Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb 1978 Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed 1978 Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado 1978 Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France 1978 President Carter defers production of neutron bomb 1978 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb 1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb 1977 Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb 1977 Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro 1976 Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack 1975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York City 1975 Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris 1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station 1974 Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed 1971 Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C. 1970 Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison 1970 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City 1969 Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed 1968 U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland 1967 Tim Simenson, rocker, Bomb the Bass 1967 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes 1967 U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War 1967 Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62 1966 175 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam 1966 173 U.S. airplanes bomb North-Vietnam 1966 300 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam 1966 Yahya Ayyash, born in Palestine, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis 1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin 1965 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam 1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes 1964 Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis 1963 Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama 1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb 1961 Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb 1960 Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack 1960 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria 1959 Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana 1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania 1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die 1957 Britain becomes the 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb 1956 U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest 1956 Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal 1956 U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll 1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll 1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado 1954 U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1953 Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres 1953 U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb 1953 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation 1953 Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb 1953 Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb 1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches 1953 President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb 1952 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands 1952 Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion) 1952 U.S. airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu, Korea 1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb 1951 Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb 1951 Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb 1951 U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea 1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll 1950 U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb 1950 Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb 1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb 1950 President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb 1949 U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb 1949 U.S.S.R. explodes their 1st atom bomb 1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem 1948 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died 1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die 1946 U.S. drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion) 1945 Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada 1945 U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1945 Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" 1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) 1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine 1945 U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb 1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico 1945 Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb 1945 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico 1945 2 U.S. P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu 1945 Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London 1945 Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa 1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra 1945 RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm 1945 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb 1945 Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die 1944 Allies bomb sea wall at Veere 1944 Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours 1944 Lesley J McNair, U.S. Lieutenant-General, killed by U.S. bomb at St-Lo 1944 Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion 1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany 1944 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity 1944 Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb 1944 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse 1944 Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die 1943 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter 1943 150 U.S. Marauders bomb Schiphol 1943 Sicily: 3 U.S. A-36's bomb British headquarter 1943 Allies bomb Mortsel 1943 Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die 1943 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin 1942 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany 1942 Robbe de Deer, Flemish director/producer, Fugitive Cinema, Bomb 1942 British and U.S. bomb Le Havre and Bremen 1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) 1942 British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) 1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II 1942 German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb 1941 Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev 1941 Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb 1941 Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews 1941 Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die) 1940 German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die 1940 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province 1940 British bomb factory at Breda 1939 Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb 1939 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden 1937 German battleships bomb Almeria, Spain 1928 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die 1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30 1917 British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades 1917 William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert 1916 A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 1914 German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die 1909 William G Penney, British physicist, 1st British Atom Bomb 1908 Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert 1905 Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1904 Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies 1903 Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, 1st Rus nuclear bomb 1902 Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963 1887 Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist 1886 Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen 1863 Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia 1713 French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao |
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