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2011 Event - In Libya's capitol of Tripoli, Muammar Gaddafi calls on NATO to stop its bombing campaign or else European homes offices and families will be targeted

2011 Event - In Tripoli, the compound of leader Muammar Gaddafi is targeted with more bombing raids during the third night of international intervention in Libya

2011 Event - Top airport security officials are fired after a suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport kills 35 people, injures 130

2010 Event - Hezbollah members are indicted for killing Lebanon�s former prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing

2010 Event - Japan's Mayor Tomihisa Taue appeals to eliminate nuclear weapons at the 65th anniversary commemoration of the 1945 bombing of Nagasaki

2010 Event - Timothy Torlot, British ambassador to Yemen, survives an attempted suicide bombing

2010 Event - After five years of research by the Dresden Historians' Commission, a report stated a reduced figure of 25,000 people died in the 1945 Dresden bombing

2010 Event - A car bomb explodes in a courthouse located in Newry, Northern Ireland. The area's last incidence of a car bombing was in the year 2000

2008 Event - Taliban suicide bombing kills 80 in Kandahar, Afghanistan

2001 Event - Timothy McVeigh executed for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed at least 168

1999 Event - During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China

1997 Event - Terry Nichols found guilty of manslaughter in Oklahoma bombing

1997 Event - Jury selection in Terry Nichols Oklahoma bombing trial begins

1997 Event - Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of world trade center bombing goes on trial

1997 Event - Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14

1997 Event - Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death

1997 Event - Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168

1995 Event - FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh and charge him with Oklahoma City bombing

1994 Event - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center

1993 Event - Arab terror group planning bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught

1992 Event - 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka

1992 Event - 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina by Islamic Jihad

1990 Death - Curtis Lemay, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations, dies at age 83

1986 Event - U.S. air raids Libya, responding to La Belle disco, Berlin bombing

1986 Event - U.S. soldier and Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing

1984 Event - During a radio voice test President Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"

1973 Event - U.S. ends secret bombing of Cambodia

1972 Event - Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks

1972 Event - U.S. begins its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam

1971 Event - 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses

1968 Event - President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam

1968 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns U.S. bombing of North Vietnam

1967 Event - Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam

1967 Event - University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam

1966 Event - 1st U.S. bombing of Hanoi

1966 Event - 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam

1965 Event - 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)

1965 Event - U.S. begins regular bombing and strafing of North Vietnam

1964 Event - U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam

1963 Event - 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham

1954 Event - China begins artillery bombing on Quemoy and Amoy

1948 Event - 1st air bombing of Jerusalem

1945 Event - Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombing

1945 Event - RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511

1945 Death - Koos Speenhoff, Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75

1945 Event - Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th U.S. Air Force

1944 Death - Brandt, col/German staff chief, dies in bombing

1944 Death - Heinz Burns, German, Gold Medal 1936 Olympics, dies in bombing

1944 Event - 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure

1944 Event - Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing

1944 Event - U.S. resumes bombing Berlin

1944 Event - USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin

1944 Event - 1st U.S. bombing of Berlin

1944 Event - U.S. begins night bombing of Truk

1944 Event - Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins

1943 Event - RAF begins air bombing of Berlin

1943 Event - U.S. bombing of Bougainville, Solomon Island

1943 Event - Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg

1942 Event - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta

1942 Event - 1st European bombing run undertaken by U.S. forces

1942 Event - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)

1942 Event - 4-day allied bombing on Rostock begins

1941 Event - 1st U.S. WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines

1940 Event - 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)

1940 Event - German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London

1940 Event - Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach

1936 Event - German air force begins bombing of Madrid

1918 Event - 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France

1917 Event - 1st British bombing of Germany

1917 Event - 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes

1915 Event - British vice adm Carden begins bombing of Dardanelles forts

1914 Event - Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing

1911 Event - 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF

1906 Birthday - Curtis Lemay, born in Columbus, Ohio, nicknamed Old Iron Pants, General, United States Air Force, running mate for George Wallace, 1968, designed World War II strategic bombing campaign, led Berlin airlift, led firebombing of Tokyo, 22 medals and decorations

1855 Event - Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed

1832 Event - French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp

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