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2002 Nearly 200 tourists murdered by Islamist terrorist bombs in Bali
1999 During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China 1994 Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed 1994 Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed) 1994 North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen 1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed 1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed 1993 Angolese air force bombs Huambo 1993 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed 1993 Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6 1993 Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi), dies at 78 1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3 1991 U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 1989 Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52 1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test 1986 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad 1984 IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die 1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks 1982 FALN (Puerto Rico Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street 1979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs) 1972 U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam 1972 U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed 1969 U.S. B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary 1968 U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs 1967 U.S. bombs Hanoi 1966 U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam 1966 U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities 1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes 1957 Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising 1950 U.S. Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed 1948 Israel bombs Cairo 1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki 1946 Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel 1945 U.S. drops fire bombs on Tokyo 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360 1945 U.S. B-17's bombs range at Luneburg 1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa 1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs 1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz 1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin 1944 RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed 1944 Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die 1944 Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen 1944 RAF bombs West Kapelse 1944 Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed 1944 British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs 1944 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions 1944 U.S. 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux 1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France 1944 2500+ killed in London and South East England by German flying bombs 1944 U.S. bombs Kyushu Japan 1944 RAF bombs Munich 1944 RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague 1944 U.S. 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die 1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin 1943 U.S. bombs Rabaul, New Britain 1943 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) 1943 USAF bombs Germans in Troina 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg 1943 RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 1943 RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) 1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde 1943 RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr) 1943 U.S. errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326 1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany 1942 RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) 1942 Japan bombs Port Darwin, Australia 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad 1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf 1942 Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon 1942 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe 1942 Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway 1942 RAF bombs Hamburg 1942 U.S. bombs Celebes and Timor 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Bath 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter 1942 James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities 1942 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg 1941 Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city" 1941 Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division 1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) 1940 RAF bombs Munich 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company 1940 Luftwaffe bombs London 1940 Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts 1940 RAF bombs Germany 1940 Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance 1940 Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany 1939 U.S.S.R. invades Finland, bombs Helsinki 1939 German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs 1939 RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen 1933 Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship 1926 French air force bombs Damascus, Syria 1925 French General Sarrail bombs Damascus 1918 Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) 1917 Germany bombs London 1915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea 1914 German plane drops bombs on Dover England 1914 Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts 1914 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed 1914 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau 1914 German fleet bombs English coast 1914 Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs 1914 German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed 1914 Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade 1898 Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan 1882 British fleet bombs Alexandria 1865 Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC 1861 Federal fleet bombs Galveston, Texas 1830 Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution) 1816 Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates 1596 Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java |
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