2013 Event Prosecutors for Boston Marathon bomber and Islamic terrorist Dzhokar Tsarnaev discuss a plea deal to avoid the death penalty in exchange for life in prison without parole 2011 Event The 'underwear bomber', Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, pleads guilty to attempting to blow up an airplane on Christmas, 2009 2010 Event The U.N. compound in Herat, western Afghanistan, is attacked by a suicide bomber 2010 Event A suicide bomber kills 20 people at a market in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province 2010 Event A suicide bomber kills 95 people, injures over 100, and destroys 20 houses at a volleyball game in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan 1998 Event World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life 1997 Event Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death 1995 Death Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75 1995 Event Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16 1994 Event Palestinian suicide bomber kills 7 Israelis and himself 1991 Death Regis Toomey, actor (Dive Bomber, Cry Danger, Magic Town), dies at 89 1984 Death Arthur T "Bomber" Harris, bombed nazi-Germany, dies 1983 Event Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon 1981 Death Joe Louis, also known as the 'Brown bomber', U.S. heavyweight champ 1937 - 1949, dies at 66 1980 Death Dee Carroll, Betty Jean Marsh, actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies 1977 Event Jimmy Carter cans B-1A bomber later "B-1's the B-52" 1968 Event U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland 1961 Event USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours 1957 Event Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested 1954 Event B-52A bomber made its maiden flight 1952 Birthday Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, born in Tripoli Libya, bomber, Pan Am 103 1950 Event U.S. B-29 bomber shot down above Latvia 1949 Event 1st British-produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its 1st test flight 1947 Event XB-45, 1st U.S. 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, California 1944 Event Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France 1944 Event Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight 1944 Event RAF Sergeant Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet without a parachute 1941 Event Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal 1940 Event George Matesky Mad Bomber's 1st time-bomb 1920 Birthday Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker 1904 Birthday Ralph Bellamy, born in Chicago, actor, Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places
