Events in History Relating to Bomb
November 5, 1605
Gunpowder Plot: A conspiracy led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the House of Lords.
December 12, 1862
USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
March 13, 1881
Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
February 12, 1894
Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
November 24, 1917
Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the headquarters of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
May 18, 1927
The Bath School Disaster: Forty-five people are killed by bombs planted by a disgruntled school-board member in Michigan.
June 5, 1941
Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
April 14, 1944
Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
March 10, 1945
The Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
January 31, 1950
President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
January 27, 1951
Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
March 1, 1954
Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
January 30, 1956
American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
May 20, 1956
In Operation Redwing, (shot Cherokee), the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean;
February 5, 1958
A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
June 30, 1963
Ciaculli massacre: A car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police and military officers near Palermo.
January 17, 1966
A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.
March 8, 1966
A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
January 21, 1968
A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
May 24, 1968
FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
August 24, 1968
France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
March 1, 1971
A bomb explodes in a men's room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
February 22, 1972
An Official Irish Republican Army car bomb is detonated at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
August 30, 1974
Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
November 21, 1974
The Birmingham Pub Bombings perpetrated by the IRA kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
February 17, 1978
The Troubles: A Provisional IRA incendiary bomb is detonated at the La Mon restaraunt, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
April 7, 1978
Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
June 28, 1981
A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of Islamic Republic Party.
April 18, 1983
A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.
May 20, 1983
A car-bomb explosion kills 17 and injures 197 in the centre of Pretoria, South Africa.
December 17, 1983
The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
March 27, 1986
A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
April 21, 1987
The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
June 19, 1987
The ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
November 22, 1989
In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
May 21, 1991
Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
March 17, 1992
A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
January 24, 1993
Turkish journalist and writer Uğur Mumcu is assassinated by a car bomb in Ankara.
March 12, 1993
Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
March 12, 1993
North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
March 20, 1993
An IRA bomb explodes in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children.
June 24, 1993
Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
May 2, 1995
During the Croatian War of Independence, Serb forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 and wounding over 175 civilians.
January 31, 1996
An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
February 9, 1996
The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by the explosion of a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
March 21, 1997
In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49.
November 12, 1997
Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
January 29, 1998
In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
May 4, 1998
A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
February 16, 1999
In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov.
April 5, 1999
Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
May 17, 2000
In the Philippines an explosion rocks Glorietta 2 injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
August 3, 2001
The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).
March 27, 2002
Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
April 12, 2002
Palestinian suicide bomber (female) kills 7 and injures 104 (among them 9 Arab people) at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem.
May 9, 2002
In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
March 5, 2003
In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
March 11, 2004
Madrid Train Bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid (Spain) kill 191 people.
August 24, 2004
89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
February 14, 2005
Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
November 9, 2005
Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
December 7, 2005
Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
July 11, 2006
209 people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
June 29, 2007
Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Picadilly Circus.
November 30, 2007
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
December 11, 2007
Two car bombs explode at the Constitutional Court building in Algiers and the United Nations office. An estimated 45 people are killed in the bombings.
November 25, 2008
A car bomb in St. Petersburg, Russia, kills three people and injures one.
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