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1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life

1997 Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death

1995 Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75

1995 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16

1994 Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself

1991 Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89

1984 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies

1983 Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon

1981 Joe Louis, [Brown bomber], U.S. heavyweight champ (1937-49), dies at 66

1980 Dee Carroll, [Betty Jean Marsh], actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies

1977 Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52"

1968 U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland

1961 USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours

1957 Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested

1954 B-52A bomber made its maiden flight

1952 Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, born in Tripoli Libya, bomber, Pan Am 103

1950 U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia

1949 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight

1947 XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California

1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France

1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight

1944 RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute

1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal

1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's 1st time-bomb

1920 Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker

1904 Ralph Bellamy, born in Chicago, actor, Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places



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