Year
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Event
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Location
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Perpetrator(s)
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Deaths
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Injuries
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Comments
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1776
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Turtle submarine attack on the Eagle
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New York Harbor, United States
|
Ezra Lee and David Bushnell
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0
|
0
|
David Bushnell designed the Turtle submarine using a clockwork time bomb crafted by Isaac Doolittle that would attach to the hull of the British ship the Eagle using a screw, but the screw failed to penetrate the hull. The time bomb was released and eventually exploded causing great noise but no harm to the British.
|
1864
|
Confederate sabotage of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters
|
City Point, Virginia, US
|
John Maxwell of the Confederate Secret Service
|
43 to 300
|
125
|
Maxwell called his device a "clockwork torpedo"; placed on an ammunition barge, it detonated 30,000 artillery shells[1]
|
1875
|
Attack on the Mosel (ship)
|
Bremerhaven, Germany
|
Alexander Keith, Jr.
|
80 or 83
|
200
|
Bomb set for insurance fraud purposes; detonated prematurely
|
1880
|
Winter Palace bombing
|
Saint Petersburg, Russia
|
Narodnaya Volya
|
11
|
30
|
Attempted assassination of Tsar Alexander II
|
1881–1885
|
Fenian dynamite campaign
|
Great Britain
|
Fenians
|
3 (bombers who died when bomb went off early)
|
100
|
Irish nationalist campaign led by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
|
1905
|
Yıldız assassination attempt
|
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
|
Edward Joris
|
26
|
58
|
Failed assassination attempted on Abdul Hamid II
|
1910
|
Los Angeles Times bombing
|
Los Angeles, US
|
John J. McNamara and James B. McNamara
|
21
|
100
|
Union-related action
|
1915
|
Muenter attack spree
|
Washington, D.C., New York City
|
German nationalist Eric Muenter
|
0
|
1
|
Set time bombs in United States Capitol, SS Minnehaha, and shot J. P. Morgan, Jr. against selling arms to Germany's enemies
|
1915
|
Pencil bomb attacks
|
New York City, Atlantic Ocean
|
Abteilung III b, German intelligence
|
36 ships damaged or sunk
|
|
Series of incendiary time bombs planted aboard ships transporting war materiel from New York to Europe
|
1916
|
Preparedness Day Bombing
|
San Francisco, US
|
Labor leaders
|
10
|
40
|
Isolationist political action
|
1920
|
Wall Street bombing
|
New York City, US
|
Anarchists (suspected)
|
38
|
400
|
Followed other bombings in 1919
|
1939
|
Bürgerbräukeller
|
Munich, Germany
|
Georg Elser
|
7
|
63
|
Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler
|
1942
|
St Nazaire Raid
|
St Nazaire, France (wartime)
|
Royal Navy, British commandos
|
590
|
unknown
|
To damage port facilities being used by enemy forces
|
1944
|
July Plot
|
Wolf's Lair, Poland (wartime)
|
German resistance to Nazism
|
4
|
?
|
Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler
|
1949
|
Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108
|
Over Cap Tourmente, Canada
|
Albert Guay
|
23
|
0
|
Murder; insurance fraud
|
1955
|
United Airlines Flight 629
|
Over Longmont, Colorado, US
|
Jack Gilbert Graham
|
44
|
0
|
Murder; insurance fraud
|
1956
|
Milk Bar, Place Bugeaud, Cafeteria, Rue Michelet, Air France office (failed to detonate)
|
Algiers, French Algeria
|
Djamila Bouhired Zohra Drif Samia Lakhdari
|
3
|
50
|
Reprisal bombings at start of the Algerian War, September 30, 1956[2] Part of the so-called Café Wars
|
1963-1971
|
FLQ bombings
|
Canada
|
Front de libération du Québec
|
None
|
1 (Army officer Walter Leja)
|
Series of politically motivated bombings (timed and non-timed devices) and other activities
|
1969-1976
|
Weatherman bombings
|
United States
|
Weather Underground
|
1 unconfirmed; 3 bombers (premature)
|
3 confirmed; 1 unconfirmed
|
Series of politically motivated bombings (timed and non-timed devices) and other activities including jailbreaks and riots
|
1972
|
Aldershot bombing
|
Aldershot, United Kingdom
|
Official IRA
|
7
|
18
|
A 280 lb time bomb in a car
|
1972 - 1973
|
1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings
|
Dublin, Ireland
|
Ulster Volunteer Force
|
3
|
185
|
Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign
|
1972
|
Belturbet bombing
|
Cavan, Ireland
|
Ulster Volunteer Force
|
2
|
8
|
Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign
|
1973
|
1973 Old Bailey bombing
|
London, UK
|
IRA
|
1
|
220
|
Continuing anti-British campaign
|
1974
|
M62 coach bombing
|
West Riding of Yorkshire
|
Provisional IRA
|
12
|
38
|
Continuing anti-British campaign
|
1974
|
1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing
|
Tokyo, Japan
|
East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front
|
8
|
376
|
Targeted against "Japanese imperialism" and "its colonist"
|
1974
|
Dublin and Monaghan bombings
|
Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland
|
Ulster Volunteer Force
|
34
|
300
|
4 time bombs in car bombs Part of anti-Irish Nationalism campaign. Biggest loss of life from an attack during the Northern Ireland Troubles.
|
1974
|
Birmingham pub bombings
|
Birmingham, UK
|
IRA (suspected)
|
21
|
182
|
Continuing anti-British campaign
|
1974
|
Guildford pub bombings
|
Guildford, UK
|
IRA
|
5
|
65
|
Targeted against Army personnel
|
1975
|
Donnelly's Bar and Kay's Tavern attacks
|
Dundalk, Ireland
|
Ulster Volunteer Force
|
2
|
21
|
Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign (1st part of double attack)
|
1976
|
Hillcrest Bar bombing
|
Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
|
Ulster Volunteer Force
|
4
|
50
|
Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign
|
1976
|
Castleblayney bombing
|
Monaghan, Ireland
|
Ulster Volunteer Force
|
1
|
17
|
Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign
|
1977
|
Lucona sinking
|
Indian Ocean
|
Udo Proksch
|
6
|
6
|
Attempted insurance fraud
|
1982
|
Droppin Well bombing
|
Ballykelly, County Londonderry, NI
|
Irish National Liberation Army INLA
|
17
|
30
|
Bombing against British soldiers
|
1984
|
Brighton hotel bombing
|
Brighton, UK
|
IRA
|
5
|
31
|
Attempt to assassinate PM Margaret Thatcher
|
1985
|
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
|
Auckland, New Zealand
|
French DGSE
|
1
|
0
|
Two limpet mines, set to detonate 10 minutes apart
|
1985
|
Air India Flight 182 and 1985 Narita International Airport bombing
|
Atlantic Ocean, Tokyo Narita Airport
|
Babbar Khalsa Khalistan separatists
|
331
|
4
|
Bombing of two 747 flights with alarm clock and dynamite hidden in radio tuner
|
1987
|
Korean Air Flight 858
|
Andaman Sea
|
North Korea
|
115 (all)
|
0
|
State terrorism against South Korea
|
1987
|
Remembrance Day bombing
|
Enniskillen, NI
|
IRA
|
12
|
63
|
Continuing anti-British campaign
|
1988
|
Pan Am flight 103
|
Above Lockerbie, Scotland
|
Libya
|
270
|
0
|
Reprisal against UK & US
|
1989
|
Deal barracks bombing
|
Deal, Kent, UK
|
IRA
|
11
|
21
|
Targeted against military personnel
|
1993
|
World Trade Center bombing
|
New York City, US
|
Ramzi Yousef
|
6
|
1,042
|
Truck bomb used 20 ft fuse for twelve-minute delay, intended to collapse both towers.
|
1994
|
Philippine Airlines Flight 434
|
Between Cebu and Tokyo, Japan
|
Ramzi Yousef
|
1
|
10
|
Blast missed fuel tank, killed one passenger and damaged control systems but pilot was able to land. Yousef bombed World Trade Center in 1993
|
1995
|
Oklahoma City bombing
|
Oklahoma City, US
|
Timothy McVeigh
|
168
|
800
|
Deadliest domestic terrorist attack in the United States.
|
1996
|
Centennial Olympic Park bombing
|
Atlanta, Georgia, US
|
Eric Rudolph
|
1
|
111
|
Politically motivated anti-abortionist; occurred during 1996 Summer Olympics.
|
1998
|
Omagh bombing
|
Omagh, NI
|
Real IRA
|
29
|
220
|
Worst single incident loss of life of the anti-British campaign.
|
1999
|
Columbine High School massacre
|
Columbine, Colorado, US
|
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
|
15
|
24
|
Bombs did not explode, and were not the cause of any of the deaths or injuries.[3]
|
1999
|
Russian apartment bombings
|
Buynaksk Moscow Volgodonsk, Russia
|
Chechen rebels led by Khattab (suspected)
|
293
|
651
|
4 bombs over 4 days; purpose unknown.[4][5][6][7]
|
2003
|
Murder of Brian Wells
|
Erie, Pennsylvania, US
|
Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong Kenneth Barnes
|
1
|
|
Silence witness to forced bank robbery; timed body bomb
|
2006
|
Moscow market bombing
|
Moscow, Russia
|
Racialist organization
|
13
|
46
|
Racially motivated attack
|