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 Pre-11th century * 1st Century - The Sicarii and other groups generically termed Zealots begin a covert campaign against the Roman occupation of Judea, characterized by assassinations of "collaborators".[1] * 661 - Ali ibn Abi Talib assassinated by Kharijites.[2](1st century BC - 1st century - 2nd century - other centuries) The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 to 100. ... Sicarii (Latin plural of Sicarius, dagger- or later contract- killer) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, to the Jewish Zealots, (or insurgents) who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from Judea: —Josephus, Jewish Antiquities (xx. ... The term Zealot, in Hebrew kanai means one who is jealous on behalf of God, meaning anyone who is overly zealous. ... The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ... Desert hills in southern Judea, looking east from the town of Arad Judea or Judaea, a term used for the mountainous southern part of historic Palestine, an area now divided between Israel, Jordan and the West Bank. ... Events Caliph Ali Ben Abu Talib is assassinated. ... Ali ibn Abu Talib (Arabic: ) (c. ... Kharijites were members of an Islamic sect in late 7th and early 8th century AD, concentrated in todays southern Iraq. ...11th-18th century * 11th Century, Syria & Iran : The Hasaniyyin, followers of Hasan-i Sabbah, formed a radical group that murdered important enemies. The group is more widely known by the derogatory name of Hashshashin, i.e. partakers of Hashish. Many say that their name is the source for the word 'assassin'.[3] * 1605 November 5 Failed Gunpowder Plot to blow up English Parliament with James I in attendance.[4](10th century - 11th century - 12th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ... Hasan ibn Sabbah (circa 1034 - 1124), or The Old Man of the Mountain, was an Iranian Ismaili missionary who converted a community in the late 11th century in the heart of the Elburz Mountains of northern Iran. ... The Hashshashin (also Hashishin), or Assassins were a religious group (some would say a cult) of Ismaili Muslims from the Nizari sub-sect with a militant basis, thought to be active in the 8th to 14th centuries as a mystic secret society specialising in terrorising the Abbasid elite with fearlessly... Jack Ruby murdered the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... Events April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the throne May 16 - Paul V becomes Pope June 1 - Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother. ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... The Gunpowder Plot of 1605 involved a desperate but failed attempt by a group of provincial English Catholic extremists to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in one fell swoop by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... The debating chamber or hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels. ... James VI of Scotland and I of England (Charles James) (19 June 1566â“27 March 1625) was a King who ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously. ...19th century * 1831, Jan van Speyk detonates his own ship in the harbor of Antwerp. * 1840, Benjamin Lett destroys a monument to British general Sir Isaac Brock * 1856, 1858, 1859, raids by John Brown in his fight against slavery. * 1881 Tzar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by a People's Will (Narodnaya volya) terrorist. * 1886 Bomb at Haymarket Square, Chicago during a labor rally kills 12.1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Van Speyk shoots at a barrel of gunpowder, detonating his own ship. ... The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp) in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old quarter of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and home to a number of triptychs by Renaissance Belgian painter Rubens. ... 1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Benjamin Lett (14 November 1813 – 1858) was an Irish-Canadian filibusterer best known for his destruction of the monument to British general Sir Isaac Brock. ... Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. (6 October 1769 â“ October 13, 1812) was a British major-general and administrator, who served in various parts of the Empire for nearly thirty years, serving in the Caribbean, Denmark, and elsewhere. ... 1856 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... John Brown John Brown (May 9, 1800 â“ December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who played a major part in the history of slavery in the United States leading up to the American Civil War. ... A monument celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, erected in Victoria Tower Gardens, Millbank, Westminster, London Look up Slavery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Enslaved redirects here. ... 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Alexander II (1818-1881) Alexander (Aleksandr) II (Russian: Ð?лекÑ?Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ II Ð?иколаевич) (April 17, 1818â“March 13, 1881) was the Emperor (tsar) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until his assassination. ... 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 9 - The United States of America is 40,000 days old. ... On May 1, 1886 (on May Day), labor unions organized a strike for an eight-hour work day in Chicago, Illinois, United States. ...1900s-1940s * 1904 May 18: Ion Perdicaris and Cromwell Varley kidnapped and ransomed by bandit Mulai Ahmed er Raisuli in Morocco. * 1910 October 1: A bomb at the Los Angeles Times newspaper building in Los Angeles, California, United States, killed 21 workers. * 1914 June 28: Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I. * 1916 July 30: Black Tom Explosion, allegedly caused by German saboteurs, causes heavy damage to Jersey City, New Jersey and Ellis Island, but kills only 3 or 4 people. * 1920 September 16: Wall Street Bombing kills 40 people and wounds 300 others. * 1927 May 18: Bath School Disaster Andrew Kehoe's bombs kill 45 people, mostly children, and wound 58 more. * 1934 October 9: Assasination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseilles by Ustashas and IMRO * 1945, August 6th and 9th: The United States sent off Fat man and Little boy on to Nagasaki and Hiroshima * 1946 July 22: Bombing of King David Hotel, the British Military HQ in Jerusalem, by the Zionist group Irgun.1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... Ion Perdicaris (1840 - 1925) was a U.S.-Greek playboy who was the centre of the infamous Perdicaris incident, a kidnapping that aroused international conflict in 1904. ... Butch Cassidy, a famous outlaw An outlaw, a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, is most familiar to contemporary readers as a stock character in Western movies. ... 1910 in topic: Arts Architecture- Art- Film- Literature- Music- Television Science and technology Aviation- Rail transport- Science Other topics Australia- Canada- Ireland- South Africa- Sport Births- Deaths Lists of leaders: State leaders - Religious leaders 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... The Los Angeles Times (also LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ... The Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd) - Land 404,298 km² - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... (Some entries on this page have been duplicated on August 1. ... A plaque commemorating the exact scene of the Sarajevo Assassination. ... Franz Ferdinand links to here. ... Countess Sophie With family. ... World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... 1916 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining. ... Black Tom pier, after the explosion. ... Jersey Citys skyline from Hoboken, New Jersey. ... Immigration Museum on Ellis Island Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor at the mouth of the Hudson River, was at one time the main immigration port for immigrants entering the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). ... The Wall Street bombing was a deadly terrorist incident that occurred on September 16, 1920 in the Financial District of New York City. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... The Bath School Disaster was an incident on May 18, 1927, in which a dynamite blast rocked the Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, about 10 miles northeast of Lansing, in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). ... Aleksandar I aka the the fat ugly Serb King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (Serbian Kralj Aleksandar I (Cetinje, Montenegro, 16 December 1888 â“ Marseille, France, 9 October 1934) of the Royal House of KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević was the first king of the... French politician Louis Barthou Jean Louis Barthou (August 25, 1862 â“ October 9, 1934) was a French politician of the Third Republic. ... Marseilles redirects here. ... The Ustaše (often spelled Ustashe in English; singular Ustaša or Ustasha) was a Croatian right-wing organisation put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers in 1941. ... The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (in Macedonian: Vnatrešna Makedonska Revolucionerna Organizacija, in Bulgarian: Vatreshna Makedonska Revolyucionna Organizaciya, commonly known in English as IMRO, was the name of a revolutionary political organization in the Macedonia region of the Ottoman Empire, and later... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A post-war Fat Man model. ... Little Boy bomb casing Little Boy was the codename given to the nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on Monday, August 6, 1945. ... Megane-bashi (Spectacles Bridge) Nagasaki listen? (é•·å´å¸‚; -shi, literally long peninsula) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu, Japan. ... Main keep of Hiroshima Castle The city of Hiroshima (広島市; -shi) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of Japans islands. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... July 22 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... On July 22, 1946, members of the Jewish underground militant organization Irgun Tsvai-Leumi in the British Mandate of Palestine planted a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Yerushalayim; Arabical-Quds; see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ... Irgun poster showing their view of the Land of Israel Irgun, shorthand for Irgun Tsvai Leumi , also spelled Irgun Zvai Leumi), Hebrew for National Military Organization, was a militant Zionist group that operated in the British Mandate of Palestine from 1931 to 1948. ...1950s * 1950 November 1: Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate President Truman. * 1954: Lavon Affair – Mossad agents bomb targets in Egypt, attempting to discredit the Egyptian government. * 1954 March 1: U.S. Capitol shooting incident by Puerto Rican nationalists, wounding five Congressmen. * 1955, August: Members of the Algerian FLN massacre civilians in the town of Philippeville. * 1956 September 30: The FLN sets off bombs at the office of Air France and elsewhere in Algiers.1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... For the victim of Mt. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Lavon Affair refers to a widespread political scandal in Israel that followed an Israeli covert operation in Egypt known as Operation Suzannah. ... Official seal of the Mossad Ha-Mossad le-Modiin ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim, Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks) is an Israeli intelligence agency, commonly referred to as Mossad. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... The U.S. Capitol shooting incident of 1954 was an attack on March 1, 1954 by four Puerto Rican nationalists who shot thirty rounds of a Luger and automatic pistol from the Ladies Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the U.S. House of Representatives into the floor of the... Seal of the House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States, the other being the Senate. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Note: as an adjective (stressed on the second syllable instead of the first), august means honorable. ... The National Liberation Front (French: Front de libération nationale, Arabic: Jabhah al-Tah,ri-r al-Wat,ani-) is a socialist political party in Algeria. ... Philippeville is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Namur. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 92 days remaining, as the final day of September. ... Air France Boeing 747 Air France (Compagnie Nationale Air France) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Before the take-over of KLM, it was essentially the national airline of France, employing 71,654 people (at January 2005). ... Algiers (Fr. ...1960s * 1963: 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. A member of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. * 1966: Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the then-quiescent IRA; on June 26 commit three sectarian murders. * 1968 December 26: Two Palestinian gunmen travel from Beirut to Athens, and attack an El Al jet there, killing one person. * 1969: A bomb in a bank killed 16 people in Milan1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing was a terrorist incident that proved to be a turning point of the US civil rights movement of the 1960s. ... Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ... Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South Location in Alabama Founded -Incorporated 1871 1871 County Jefferson County Mayor Bernard Kincaid Area - Total - Water 393. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group. ... This article primarily deals with the Irish Republican Army up to 1922. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... December 26 is the 360th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, 361st in leap years. ... Central Beirut (2004) Beirut (Arabic: , transliterated BayrÅ«t - the French name, Beyrouth, was also commonly used in English in the past) is the capital, largest city and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... Categories: Airline stubs | Companies of Israel | Transportation in Israel | Airlines of Israel ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... MILAN 2 Type anti-tank Nationality joint France/German Era Cold War Platform Individual, Vehicle Target Vehicle History Builder Date of design Production period Service duration Operators War service Specifications Type Diameter 0. ...1970s1970 * February 21: A bomb explodes in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, Switzerland, killing 38 passengers and all 9 crew members. * May 8: Avivim school bus massacre by Palestinian PLO members, killing nine children, three adults and crippling 19. * August 24: the Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin campus was blown up resulting in 1 death * September 6: Coordinated hijacking of four jet aircraft. One hijacking is foiled in midair and two planes are diverted to Jordan’s Dawson Field. Nicaraguan hijacker Sandinista Patrick Arguello was killed and all passengers were freed after negotiated release of captured hijacker Leila Khaled and three PFLP prisoners. The following day a fifth airplane was also hijacked. See Dawson's Field hijackings, Black September in Jordan. * October 5 – 17: October Crisis (Quebec): FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Swissair Flight SR330 was a regularly scheduled flight from Zurich International Airport in Kloten, Switzerland to Tel Aviv, Israel. ... Zürich (in English often Zurich, IPA ) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... An ambush attack known as the Avivim school bus massacre took place on May 8, 1970 near Avivim, an agricultural community in Israel founded in 1963 by Moroccan immigrants. ... The Palestinians are a mainly Arabic-speaking people with family origins in Palestine. ... The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Arabic Munazzamat al-Tahrir Filastiniyyah is a political and paramilitary organization of Palestinian Arabs dedicated to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to consist of the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, with an intent to destroy Israel. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... For the University of Wisconsin system, see University of Wisconsin System. ... September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... Sandinista! is also the name of a popular music album by The Clash. ... The only hijacker killed in the Dawsons Field hijackings of 1970, Patrick Arguello had the distinction of being a Nicaraguan fighting alongside the Palestinian PFLP Arguello in an undated photo // Youth After spending his childhood in Nicaragua, Patricks parents Rodolfo Arguello and Catherine Ryan, were forced to flee... Leila Khaled in the 70s Leila Khaled (born April 9, 1944) is a former member of George Habashs Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), part of the secular, leftwing Palestinian rejectionist front. ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic Al-Jabhah al-Shabiyyah Li-Tahrir Filastin is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967. ... Main article: Black September in Jordan The Dawsons Field hijacking occurred on September 6, 1970. ... This article, Black September in Jordan, describes the events surrounding September, 1970 in Jordan. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... The October Crisis was a series of dramatic events triggered by two terrorist kidnappings that occurred in Quebec, Canada, during the month of October, 1970. ... Beginning in 1963, a terrorist group that became known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices and at least two murders by FLQ gunfire and three violent deaths by bombings. ... The Front de Libération du Québec (Quebec Liberation Front), commonly known as the FLQ, was a separatist group founded in the 1960s and based primarily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Pierre Laporte (February 25, 1921 - October 1970), was a Canadian politician who was assassinated by members of the FLQ. Pierre Laporte Pierre Laporte was born in Montreal, Quebec. ... James Richard Cross (September 29, 1921-) was a British diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped by the Front de libération du Québec during the October Crisis of October 1970. ...1971 * December 4: UVF bomb in McGurk's bar in Belfast's North Queen Street kills 15 people.December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group. ... Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. ...1972 * May 30: Lod Airport Massacre by the Japanese Red Army terrorists, killing 26 and injuring 78. * July 21: Bloody Friday nine are killed and 130 injured as Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) sets off 22 bombs. * July 31: Provisional Irish Republican Army set off three car bombs in Claudy killing six. * September 5: Black September kidnaps and kills 11 Israeli Olympic athletes and one German policeman in the Munich Massacre.May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... On May 30, 1972 three members of the Japanese Red Army undertook a terrorist attack in Lod Airport in Tel Aviv on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. ... The Japanese Red Army (日本赤è»?, Nihon Sekigun) (JRA) is an international organisation founded by Ms. ... July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining. ... Bloody Friday is the name given to July 21, 1972, due to bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in and around Belfast, Northern Ireland on that day. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining, as the final day of July. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... The expression Black September may refer to: Black September, a Palestinian paramilitary organization The Black September in Jordan, a conflict between Palestinian militant organizations and Hashemite King Hussein of Jordan that began in September 1970 and ended in July 1971 with the expulsion of the PLO to Lebanon. ... For months before the Olympic Games, runners relay the Olympic Flame from Olympia to the opening ceremony. ... One of the Black September kidnappers on the balcony of the Israeli hostel at the Olympic village The Munich Massacre occurred at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September. ...1973 * December 17: Pan Am Flight 110: 30 passengers were killed when phosphorus bombs are thrown aboard the aircraft as it prepares for departure. * December 20: Basque ETA group kills Spanish Prime Minister Admiral Carrero Blanco bombing his car in Madrid.December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Damage from an explosion of Pan Am Flight 110 On December 17, 1973 Pan Am Flight 110 was scheduled to fly from Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport, Rome to Beirut International Airport in Lebanon. ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Basques are an indigenous people who inhabit parts of both Spain and France. ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ... Luís Carrero Blanco (March 4, 1903 – December 20, 1973) was a Spanish admiral and statesman. ... A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ... Plaza de Cibeles (Cibeles square) and the Palacio de Comunicaciones (Communications Palace) Coat of arms. ...1974 * January 31: * JRA–PFLP attack on a Shell Oil facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait. * April 11: Kiryat Shmona massacre at an apartment building by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members, killing 18 people, 9 of whom were children * May 15: Ma'alot massacre at the Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members: 26 of the hostages were killed, 66 wounded. * May 17: UVF detonates 3 car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan; 33 dead – the deadliest toll of any one day in Ireland's 'Troubles'. * September 8: TWA Flight 841: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner. * September 13: Basque ETA group bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria in Madrid and kills 12. * October 5: Guildford pub bombing by the IRA leaves five dead and 44 injured. * November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA kills 21, 182 people are injured.January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Japanese Red Army (日本赤è»?, Nihon Sekigun) (JRA) is an international organisation founded by Ms. ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic Al-Jabhah al-Shabiyyah Li-Tahrir Filastin is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967. ... A Shell petrol station sign in the UK The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies (called Shell Oil in North America), has its headquarters split between the Shell Centre in London, United Kingdom and The Hague, Netherlands. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... On April 11, 1974, a three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command crossed the Israeli border from Lebanon. ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)al-Jabhah al-Shaabiyah li-Tahri-r Filast.i-n) is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... The Maalot massacre was a school massacre in Maalot, Israel, that occurred on May 15, 1974. ... Maalot (hebrew ?????) is a town in northern Israel, about 20 km east of Nahariyya. ... The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) al-Jabhah al-Shaabiyah li-Tahri-r Filast.i-n) is a secular, Marxist-Leninist, nationalist Palestinian organization, founded after the Six-Day War in 1967. ... May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ... The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group. ... Dublin (Irish: Baile Ã?tha Cliath),is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin region. ... Monaghan (Muineachán in Irish) is a town in the Republic of Ireland, the administrative capital of County Monaghan. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... On September 8, 1974, TWA Flight 841 took off from Tel Aviv, Israel, en route to JFK International Airport. ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA , is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... Map sources for Guildford at grid reference SU9949 Guildford is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as being the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Birmingham Six were Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ...1975 * January 24: FALN bomb the Fraunces Tavern, killing four and injuring more than 50 * February 26: London police officer Stephen Tibble, 22, is shot dead as he chases an IRA gunman escaping from a bomb factory. * March 5: In the Savoy Operation PLO gunmen from Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel eventually killing eight hostages and three IDF soldiers, and wounding 11 hostages. * July 31: Three members of Ireland's popular Miami Showband killed in UVF gun attack. * December 29: Bomb explodes at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 and injuring 75.January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (en: Armed Forces of National Liberation or Armed Commandos of Liberation) but better known by its initials in Spanish, FALN, is a Puerto Rican clandestine terrorist group that advocates complete independence for Puerto Rico. ... The current Fraunces Tavern restaurant on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan 1. ... February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... St. ... Stephen Tibble (1953 - February 26, 1975) was a police officer killed by an IRA gunman whom he was chasing through Barons Court, London. ... IRA is an acronym with several meanings. ... Massive ordinance air-burst bomb. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... The Savoy Operation was a terrorist act masterminded by Abu Jihad On the night of March 4th, 1975, at 11:00 PM eight terrorists in two teams landed by boat on the Tel-Aviv beach. ... The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Arabic Munazzamat al-Tahrir Filastiniyyah is a political and paramilitary organization of Palestinian Arabs dedicated to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to consist of the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, with an intent to destroy Israel. ... Tel Aviv at night Dizengof Center Allenby Street Tel Aviv-Yafo Tal Abi-b-Ya-fa-) is an Israeli city on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. ... IDF or idf may refer to: the International Diabetes Federation the Israel Defense Forces the AIDC Ching-kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter of Taiwan. ... July 31 is the 212th day (213th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 153 days remaining, as the final day of July. ... The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is a Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary group. ... December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... FAA diagram of LaGuardia Airport . Fiorello LaGuardia Airport is located in Flushing, a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens, New York near the Flushing Bay. ...1976 * February 3: Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus in Djibouti, killing one girl * February 16: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia assassinate Turkish diplomat Oktay Cerit in Paris. * June 26–July 4: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (Tel-Aviv-Paris) and the following Operation Entebbe; 4 hostages and one IDF soldier killed. * September 21: Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government. * October 6: A Cubana aircraft was bombed while flying from Barbados to Havana, killing 73. * December 4: In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official was killed. * December 14: In the Netherlands, near Beilen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS movement, passengers were kept hostage. Three passengers were killed by the hijackers.February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) is a defunct militant organisation claiming to defend the rights of Armenians in Turkey. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... Air France Boeing 747 Air France (Compagnie Nationale Air France) is a subsidiary of Air France-KLM. Before the take-over of KLM, it was essentially the national airline of France, employing 71,654 people (at January 2005). ... Entebbe Airport, Uganda, scene of Operation Entebbe Operation Entebbe took place on the night of July 3 and early morning of July 4, 1976. ... IDF or idf may refer to: the International Diabetes Federation the Israel Defense Forces the AIDC Ching-kuo Indigenous Defence Fighter of Taiwan. ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... Orlando Letelier (1932 April 13 - 1976 September 21) was a former member of the Chilean government who was assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, in 1976. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... Cubana de Aviacion Yakovlev Yak-42, registration CU-T 1243, at Cancun International Airport, Mexico, on October 12th 2003 Cubana de Aviación is Cubas domestic and international airline. ... Havana (Spanish: San Cristóbal de La Habana; UN/LOCODE: Habana (CU HAV)) is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of 2. ... December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The South Moluccas, or Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), was a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands, founded May 25, 1950. ... See also: consulate (disambiguation). ... Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Midden-Drenthe is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands. ... There are various types of trains designed for particular purposes, see rail transport operations. ... The South Moluccas, or Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), was a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands, founded May 25, 1950. ...1977 * March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC are seized and over 100 hostages taken. Washington city councilman Marion Barry is shot in the chest during the incident and after a standoff all hostages are released from the District building, B’nai Brith, and the Islamic Center. * April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members. * May 23: In the Netherlands, RMS activists kept 105 children and 5 teachers hostage in a school in Smilde. * June 11: In the Netherlands, near Groningen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS, 55 passengers were kept hostage. In an army attack six hijackers and two passengers were killed. * July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping. * September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was executed by the Red Army Faction on October 19, 1977. * October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four Arabs around the leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud".March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... Siegfried Buback (January 3, 1920 in Wilsdruff â“ April 7, 1977 in Karlsruhe) was the chief federal prosecutor from 1974-1977 for the Bundesgerichtshof, the highest court of appeals in Germany. ... RAF Logo with red star and MP5 The Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion; RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, which was one of the core groups within the RAF, was postwar Germanys most active leftist revolutionary group, which is... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... The South Moluccas, or Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), was a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands, founded May 25, 1950. ... June 11 is the 162nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (163rd in leap years), with 203 days remaining. ... Groningen is a municipality and city in the north of the Netherlands, and capital of Groningen province. ... There are various types of trains designed for particular purposes, see rail transport operations. ... The South Moluccas, or Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), was a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands, founded May 25, 1950. ... July 30 is the 211th day (212th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 154 days remaining. ... Dresdner Bank is one of Germanys largest banking corporations and is located in Frankfurt. ... September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... Hanns Martin Schleyer (May 1, 1915 (Offenburg) - October 19, 1977 (assassinated by the Red Army Faction near Mulhouse, France)) was a German manager and employer representative. ... October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ... Lufthansa Boeing 737-300 Lufthansa Airbus A300-B4 Lufthansa Avro RJ85 Lufthansa (Deutsche Lufthansa AG) is the largest German airline company, headquartered in Cologne. ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ...1978 * 1978–1995: The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings. * February 13: Hilton bombing: A bomb is detonated outside the CHOGM meeting in Sydney, Australia, killing 2 people. 3 Ananda Marga members are later arrested and jailed for the attack. * March: In the Netherlands members of the RMS movement occupy a provincial office in Assen. 67 persons were kept hostage, one official was killed on the spot, another died of injuries a month later. * March 11: Coastal Road massacre: Fatah gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near Haifa; 37 Israelis on the bus are killed. * March 16 – May 9: The Red Brigade kidnapping of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and assassinate him 55 days later.1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Theodore Kaczynski Theodore John Kaczynski, Ph. ... February 13 is the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... On 13 February 1978 at 1:40am a bomb exploded in a rubbish bin outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia killing two garbagemen and a policeman, and injuring several others. ... The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is a biennial meeting of the heads of government from all Commonwealth nations. ... Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left. ... Ananda Marga is a social and spiritual organization founded in India in 1955 by spiritual master and philosopher Prabhat Rainjain Sarkar, known by his spiritual name of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... The South Moluccas, or Republik Maluku Selatan (RMS), was a self-proclaimed republic in the Maluku Islands, founded May 25, 1950. ... Assen railway station Assen is a municipality and a city in the north eastern Netherlands, capital of the province of Drenthe. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... Charred remains of the hijacked bus Front end remains of the hijacked bus The Coastal Road Massacre is the name by which a Palestinian terrorist attack on an Israeli coastal-road bus is known. ... The Fatah official emblem shows two fists holding rifles and a hand grenade superimposed on a map of the land they claim as Palestine (roughly, present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). ... For the Lebanese singer, see Haifa Wehbe Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel, with a population close to 300,000. ... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse) is a terrorist group located in Italy. ... Aldo Moro Aldo Moro (Maglie, Lecce Province, September 23, 1916 - May 9, 1978) was twice Prime Minister of Italy. ...1979 * July 29: Basque ETA members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing 7. * August 27: Lord Mountbatten and three others are killed by IRA bomb on board his boat off Mullaghmore. The same day two IRA bombs kill 18 British Soldiers near Warrenpoint. After the explosions a heavy gun battle ensued between the Soldiers and the Bombers firing from their position inside the border with the Republic of Ireland. One civilian was caught in the crossfire and killed.July 29 is the 210th day (211th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 155 days remaining. ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25, 1900 – August 27, 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... This article primarily deals with the Irish Republican Army up to 1922. ...1980s1980 * March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador. * April 30: Iranian Embassy siege Iraqi agents take over the Iranian Embassy in London, gaining hostages. After a number of days, one hostage was killed by the Iraqis, and the Special Air Service assaulted the building to rescue the remaining hostages. One hostage died during the assault. * August 2: Strage di Bologna A terrorist bombing at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200. * December 2: Four US nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador. * December 11: U.S. trained Salvadoran Army unit executes 800 civilians at the village of El Mozote.March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... Archbishop Óscar Romero Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Goldámez (August 15, 1917 â“ March 24, 1980) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. ... A death squad is an extra-judicial group whose members execute or assassinate persons they believe to be politically unreliable or undesirable. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... The Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980 was a terrorist siege of the Iranian Embassy in London, United Kingdom. ... St. ... This article is about the British Special Air Service. ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... Rescue teams making their way through the rubble The Bologna massacre, also known in Italy as the Strage di Bologna, was a terrorist bombing against the Central Station of Bologna, Italy on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200. ... Rescue teams making their way through the rubble The Bologna massacre, also known in Italy as the Strage di Bologna, was a terrorist bombing against the Central Station of Bologna, Italy on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 200. ... History The first Bologna Centrale station was constructed in 1864, however there are sketchy and unclear testimonies regarding its life. ... Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulaggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... A death squad is an extra-judicial group whose members execute or assassinate persons they believe to be politically unreliable or undesirable. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The El Mozote Massacre took place in the village of El Mozote, in Morazán department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981, when Salvadoran armed forces slaughtered an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign. ...1981 * October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... Anwar Sadat Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat (December 25, 1918 â“ October 6, 1981) was an Egyptian politician and President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981. ... Islamic Jihad (Arabic: Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) is a militant Islamist group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus. ...1982 * March 29: A bomb on board the Paris-Toulouse train, kills 5 injures 27. Carlos usually assumed to be responsible. * July 20: Two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park, London by the IRA kill 8 members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets. Seven horses are also killed. * August 7: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia set off bomb in Ankara airport, killing 9 people and wounding 70. * August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant : 6 killed 22 wounded - Fatah - the Revolutionary Council * September 14: Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in an car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters. * September 17: Sabra and Shatila Massacre: the murder of hundreds of Palestinian civilians at refugee camps by Israeli-backed Christian Phalangist militiamen. * October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... The Capitole, the 18th century city hall of Toulouse and best known landmark in the city; in the foreground is the Place du Capitole, a hub of urban life at the very center of the city Toulouse (pronounced in standard French, in local Toulouse accent) (Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced ) is a... Carlos with fiancée Isabelle Coutant-Peyre Ilich RamÃrez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949) was a militant, mercenary, professional revolutionary, and playboy; he is better known by the nom de guerre Carlos the Jackal, which may have been given to him by the press after a copy of... July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England, and one of the Royal Parks of London. ... For other meanings, see Regents Park (disambiguation) Regents Park (officially The Regents Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. ... St. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... The term Household Cavalry is used across the Commonwealth of Nations to describe the cavalry of the Household Divisions. ... Cap badge of the Royal Green Jackets The Royal Green Jackets is an infantry regiment of the British Army, one of two within the Light Division (the other being The Light Infantry). ... August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) is a defunct militant organisation claiming to defend the rights of Armenians in Turkey. ... Ankara from the Atakule Tower, looking N-NE Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Istanbul. ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Fatah - the Revolutionary Council (better known as the Abu Nidal Organization, after its founder Abu Nidal) was an international terrorist organization created by a split from the Fatah in 1974. ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). ... Bachir Gemayel, first name also spelt Bashir, (November 10, 1947 - September 14, 1982) was a Lebanese military commander and politician. ... The Kataeb Party, better known in English-speaking countries as the Phalange, is a Lebanese political party that was first established as a Maronite nationalist youth movement in 1936 by Pierre Gemayel. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1982 Sabra and Shatila Massacre Conflict Lebanese Civil War Date 16 September 1982 Place Sabra and Shatila Refugee Camp Result Large civilian casualties Template:Campaignbox War of the Camps The Sabra and Shatila massacre (or Sabra and Chatila massacre) was carried out in September 1982 by Lebanese Maronite Christian militias... In its simplist form, a Christian is a follower of and a believer in Jesus of Nazareth. ... The Kataeb Party, better known in English-speaking countries as the Phalange, is a Lebanese political party that was first established as a Maronite nationalist youth movement in 1936 by Pierre Gemayel. ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years). ... Direct action is a method and a theory of stopping objectionable practices or creating more favorable conditions using immediately available means, such as strikes, boycotts, workplace occupations, sit-ins, or sabotage, and less oppositional methods such as establishing radical social centres, although these are often squatted. ... Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States, bought by the Northrop Grumman Corporation in 2001. ...1983 * April 18: U.S. Embassy Bombing in Beirut, Lebanon kills 63. * July 15: Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia bombed a Turkish airline counter in the Orly Airport, killing eight people and wounding over 50. * September 23: Gulf Air Flight 771 is bombed, killing all 117 people on board. * October 9: Rangoon bombing by North Koreans targets South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, killing 21 persons and injuring 48. * October 23: Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut kills 241 U.S. Marines. 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack. * December 17: Harrods bomb by the IRA. Six are killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London department store. * December 31: On the way to New Year's Eve 7 persons are killed and 70 wounded by bombs on the Marseille to Paris TGV and at the St-Charles station in Marseille. The attack is attributed to Carlos on behalf of the O.L.A.April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... The April 18, 1983, suicide bombing of the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon was the deadliest attack on a US displomatic mission to that time, and is seen by some as marking the beginning of anti-US attacks by Islamic groups. ... Central Beirut (2004) Beirut (Arabic: , transliterated BayrÅ«t - the French name, Beyrouth, was also commonly used in English in the past) is the capital, largest city and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) is a defunct militant organisation claiming to defend the rights of Armenians in Turkey. ... Diagram of Orly airport Orly Airport is an airport located in Orly, south of Paris, France. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... Gulf Air Flight 771 was a flight that flew from Abu Dhabi International Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to Karachi International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). ... The 1983 Rangoon bombing was a devastating act of terrorism by North Korea and an attempt to kill the South Korean President, Chun Doo Hwan. ... North Korea, officially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK; Korean: Choso(n Minjujuu(i Inmin Konghwaguk; Hangul; Hanja: is a country in eastern Asia, covering the northern half of the peninsula of Korea. ... South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: Daehan Minguk Hangul is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. ... Chun Doo Hwan (born 18 January Korean military officer and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... The 1983 barracks bombing was a major terrorist incident during the Lebanese Civil War. ... Central Beirut (2004) Beirut (Arabic: , transliterated BayrÅ«t - the French name, Beyrouth, was also commonly used in English in the past) is the capital, largest city and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the U.S. military. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ... St. ... A department store organizes its goods by departments, such as womens clothes, home furnishings, electronics, and the like. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... New Years Eve is a celebration held the day before New Years Day, on December 31, the final day of the year. ... City motto: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... City motto: Actibus immensis urbs fulget Massiliensis. ... Carlos with fiancée Isabelle Coutant-Peyre Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (born October 12, 1949) was a terrorist, professional revolutionary, and playboy; he is better known by the nom de guerre Carlos the Jackal, which may have been given to him by the press after a copy of the...1984 * October 12: Brighton hotel bombing by the IRA: 5 are killed in an attempt to kill members of the British cabinet. * October 31: Two Sikh bodyguards assassinate Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi.October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... The Grand Hotel, Brighton, 2004 The Brighton hotel bombing was the bombing by the Provisional IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in the early morning of October 12, 1984. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... Alternate meanings in cabinet (disambiguation) A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. ... October 31 is the 304th day of the year (305th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 61 days remaining, as the final day of October. ... A Sikh man wearing a turban A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a religious faith originating in the Punjab. ... The Prime Minister of India is, in practice, the most powerful person in the government of India. ... Indira Gandhi(19 November 1917 â“ 31 October 1984) was Prime Minister of India from 19 January 1966 to 24 March 1977, and from 14 January 1980 until her assassination in 1984. ...1985 * February 28: IRA mortar attack kills nine Police officers in Newry. * June 14: TWA Flight 847 hijacking. * June 22: Air India Flight 182 is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada by Sikh nationalists. All 329 people on board are killed. The single most deadly terrorist attack prior to September 11, 2001. A second Air India flight from Canada was targeted on the same day, but the bomb exploded at the Tokyo airport, in the luggage outside the aircraft, killing two baggage handlers, bringing the total death toll of the act to 331. * October 7 – October 10: Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead. * November 23: EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions. * December 27: Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks. * Investigators associated with the WHO reported that U.S.-funded Contras repeatedly destroyed health-care facilities and murdered health-care workers in Nicaraqua.February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... Two hijackers in the cockpit with Captain Testrake Trans World Airlines Flight 847 was hijacked on June 14, 1985. ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... Air India Flight 182 was a Boeing 747 that exploded on June 23, 1985 while at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland; all 329 on board were killed, of whom 82 were children and 280 were Canadian citizens. ... A Sikh man wearing a turban A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a religious faith originating in the Punjab. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... The Achille Lauro The Achille Lauro was a passenger liner, most remembered for its 1985 hijacking. ... The Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) was founded to create a Palestinian state; it was headquartered first in Lebanon, and later in Tunisia. ... Leon Klinghoffer (September 24, 1916–October 8, 1985) was a retired appliance manufacturer of New York who was disabled and used a wheelchair for mobility. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... EgyptAir Flight 648 was a Boeing 737 aircraft on a flight from Athens to Cairo, carrying 96 people. ... Abu Nidal in the 1970s, in one of only a handful of photographs of him known to exist. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Rome and Vienna Airport Attacks were two major terrorist attacks carried out on December 27, 1985. ... The WHO flag: similar to the flag of the United Nations, augmented with the symbolic staff and serpent of Asklepios, Greek god of medicine and healing. ... The Contras (short for contrarrevolucionarios, a Spanish term meaning counter-revolutionaries) were the armed opponents of Nicaraguas Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction following the July 1979 overthrow of Anastasio Somoza Debayle and the ending of the Somoza familys 43-year rule. ...1986 * April 2: TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed. * April 6: the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing three and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible. In retaliation, the US bombs Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon and tries to kill Colonel Qaddafi. * June 14: ANC bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban, South Africa, 3 people killed, 73 wounded. * July 15: ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, kills 12. * September 5: Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan. * December 25: Iraqi Airways Hijacking * December 31: New Year's Eve fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, claimed 97 lives, mainly in the casino area. Fire set by 3 hotel workers, trying to make tourists stay away from Puerto Rico as a protest to their working wages.2 April is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... TWA Flight 840 was a regularly scheduled flight from Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport in Rome, Italy to Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... The April 6, 1986 La Belle discotheque bombing was a terroristic attack on a discotheque in West Berlin that was frequented by US soldiers. ... Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... Operation El Dorado Canyon was the name of the joint United States Air Force and Navy air-strikes against Libya on April 15, 1986. ... Qadhafi can refer to: Moammar al-Qadhafi, leader of Libya since 1970 Khadaffy Janjalani, leader of the Filipino terrorist group Abu Sayyaf This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... ANC redirects here. ... Durban is a vibrant cosmopolitian city in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ... September 5 is the 248th day of the year (249th in leap years). ... Pan Am Flight 73 was a flight that was hijacked on September 5, 1986 by four armed men of the Abu Nidal organization. ... Karachi is the largest city of Pakistan and the capital of the province of Sindh. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... On December 25, 1986, YI-AGJ, an Iraqi Airways Boeing 737-270C en route from Saddam International Airport (now Baghdad International Airport) in Baghdad to Amman, Jordan, was hijacked by 4 men. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Dupont & Plaza Hotel and Casino was a hotel located in Condado, Puerto Rico a district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. ... San Juan is the capital city of Puerto Rico. ...1987 * April 21: Car bomb at bus terminal in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 110 * June 19: ETA Basque militant group bomb in Hipercor Mall's parking in Barcelona, kills 21, 45 injured. * November 8: Enniskillen massacre. Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh is bombed by the IRA and 11 are killed and 63 injured. * November 29: KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea. * December 11: ETA Basque militant group bomb a Guardia Civil police bedrooms in Zaragoza, kills 11, 40 injured.April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... For the American televison series see Columbo. ... June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 195 days remaining. ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA, is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ... November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. ... Enniskillen (Inis Ceithleann in Irish) is the county town of Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. ... Wreaths of artifical poppies used as a symbol of remembrance Remembrance Day or Armistice Day is a day of commemoration observed in the Commonwealth of Nations and various European countries (including France and Belgium) to commemorate World War I and other wars. ... County Fermanagh (Fear Manach in Irish) is often referred to as Northern Irelands Lake District. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Korean Air Lines Flight 858 was a flight that flew from Abu Dhabi International Airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to Kimpo Airport near Seoul, South Korea via Don Muang Airport in Bangkok. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA (IPA: [ˈɛË?ta]), is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ...1988 * December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie. The worst act of terrorism against the United States prior to September 11, 2001.December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The nose, containing the flight crew and first-class section, landed in a farmers field near a tiny church in Tundergarth, Scotland Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up as it flew over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, when 12â“16 oz (340 â“ 450 g) of plastic explosive... Lockerbie is a small town with a population of 4,009 (Census 2001) located in the Dumfries and Galloway region in south-western Scotland. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). ... 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...1989 * July 9: Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others. * September 22: Deal barracks bombing: Ten Royal Marines bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent, is bombed by the IRA. * September 19: UTA Flight UT-772 kills 171 people. * November 27: Avianca Flight 203 bombed over Colombia. * December 6: Truck bomb kills 52 and injures 1,000 outside a security building in Bogotá, Colombia; blast is blamed on drug lord Pablo Escobar.July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... This article is about the holy city in Saudi Arabia. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). ... The ruins of the recreation center The 1989 Deal barracks bombing took place on September 22, 1989 in the army barracks of Deal, Kent, England. ... The Corps of Royal Marines, usually just known as the Royal Marines (RM), are the United Kingdoms amphibious forces and a core component of the countrys Rapid Reaction Force. ... Location within the British Isles Deal is a town in Kent, England. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... September 19 is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years). ... Union des Transports Aeriens Flight 772 was a flight of a French airline which flew from Brazzaville, to NDjamena, and then to Charles De Gaulle International Airport near Paris. ... November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. ... Avianca Airlines Flight 203 was a Boeing 727 that was destroyed by a bomb over Colombia on November 27, 1989. ... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A drug lord is the term used to describe a person who controls a sizable network of persons involved in the illegal drugs trade. ... A WANTED poster of Escobar Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 12, 1949 â“ December 2, 1993) gained world infamy as a Colombian drug lord who became one of the richest men in the world by smuggling cocaine into the United States and countries around the world. ...1990s1990 * October 24: A series of car bombings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave 7 people dead and 37 wounded.October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ...1991 * May 29: Basque ETA group bombs the Guardia Civil police barracks in Vic (Barcelona), killing 10. * November 15: Two IRA members are killed by their own bomb in St Albans.May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... The Basques are an indigenous people who inhabit parts of both Spain and France. ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ... Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 1004 Km2 Population density (2001) 15,764/Km2 Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia, an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, and Spains second-largest city (after Madrid). ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... St Albans (thus spelt, no apostrophe or dot) is the main urban area of the City and District of St Albans in southern Hertfordshire, England, around 22 miles (35. ...1992 * January 17: Eight Protestant builders killed by an IRA bomb on their way to work at an Army base near Omagh. * March 17: Israeli Embassy bombing by "Islamic Jihad" in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 killed, 242 injured.January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... Omagh (Irish, An Ómaigh) is the county town (and largest town) of County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... The Israeli Embassy Attack in Buenos Aires was a bomb attack against the Israels embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ...1993 * January 25: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fires an AK-47 assault rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. Two died. * February 26: World Trade Center bombing kills 6 and injures over 1000 people. * March 12: Mumbai car bombings in India * March 20: IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (Warrington Bomb Attacks) * April 24: IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage. * June: Failed New York City landmark bomb plot. * June 21: ETA Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills 7, 36 injured. * July 5: the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre. * October 23: A bomb at a fish and chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills 10 people, including two children. * October 30: Seven people killed in a Loyalist UFF gun attack in a bar in Greysteel, Co Derry.January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Mir Amir Kansi (also known as Mir Amir Kasi) (February 10, 1964 -- November 14, 2002) was a Pakistani citizen who shot five people in their cars as they were turning towards the entrance to US CIA headquarters on January 25, 1993. ... Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947 g. ... A rifle is any long gun which has a rifled barrel. ... The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the American foreign intelligence agencies, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... February 26 is the 57th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The World Trade Center bombing was the February 26, 1993 attack in the garage of the New York City World Trade Center. ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... The 1993 Mumbai bombings were a series of bomb explosions that took place in Mumbai (Bombay), India on March 12, 1993. ... March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... Alternate uses: see Warrington (disambiguation). ... The Warrington Bomb Attacks took place in Warrington, England in 1993. ... April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... This article is about a small section of central London. ... Looking north from a pedestrian bridge across Bishopsgate Bishopsgate is a road in the east of the City of London, running north from Gracechurch to Norton Folgate. ... June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... The New York City landmark bomb plot was a planned sequel to the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing that would have inflicted hundreds of American casualties on American soil. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA (IPA: [ˈɛË?ta]), is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... This article primarily deals with the Irish Republican Army up to 1922. ... Newtownards (Baile Nua na hArda in Irish) is a town in County Down in Northern Ireland, on the shores of Strangford Lough on the Ards Peninsula. ... For an explanation of often confusing terms like Ulster, (Republic of) Ireland, (Great) Britain and United Kingdom see British Isles (terminology). ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... Fish and chips in wrapping paper Fish and chips is deep-fried fish in batter with deep-fried potatoes, and a popular take-away food. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is a city in the United Kingdom. ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... ...1994 * February 25: Baruch Goldstein kills 29 Palestinian civilians in an attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. * June 18: Six Catholic men shot dead by Loyalists in a pub in Loughinisland, Co Derry. * July 18: Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 86 and wounds 300. Attributed by the judge who tried the case, Juan José Galeano, to Hezbollah acting on behalf of Iran. * July 19: Alas Chiricanas bombing kills 21 people. Generally attributed to Hezbollah. * July 26: Israeli Embassy Attack in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed, wounding 20. Attributed by Britain, Argentina, and Israel to Hezbollah. * December 11: A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack. * December 24: Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Dr. Baruch Goldstein in medical clothes. ... The Palestinians are a mainly Arabic-speaking people with family origins in Palestine. ... The Cave of the Patriarchs is considered to be the spiritual center of the ancient city of Hebron. ... A recent view of the old city of Hebron Hebron , Standard Hebrew , Tiberian Hebrew Ḥeḇrôn: derived from the word friend) is a town in the West Bank, in an area known in Israel as Judea. ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. ... The AMIA Bombing was an attack on the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association building (Asociación Mutua Israelita Argentina, or (AMIA), in Spanish). ... The Hezbollah flag Hezbollah (Arabic â®Øزب اللهâ¬, meaning Party of God, for other designations or alternative spellings, see name part of this article) is a political and military party in Lebanon founded in 1982 to fight Israel in southern Lebanon. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... The bombing of an Alas Chiricanas flight in Panama was a deadly terrorist attack that took place on July 19, 1994, one of a series of deadly attacks against Jewish people that year. ... The Hezbollah flag Hezbollah, meaning Party of God, for other designations or alternative spellings, see name part of this article) is a political and military party in Lebanon founded in 1982 to fight Israel in southern Lebanon. ... July 26 is the 207th day (208th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 158 days remaining. ... On July 26, 1994 Eight days after the AMIA Bombing in Argentina, a car bomb exploded outside the Israeli embassy in London, injuring 14 people. ... The Hezbollah flag Hezbollah, meaning Party of God, for other designations or alternative spellings, see name part of this article) is a political and military party in Lebanon founded in 1982 to fight Israel in southern Lebanon. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Philippine Airlines Flight 434 was the route designator of a flight that flew on a Ninoy Aquino International Airport near Manila, Philippines - Mactan-Cebu International Airport, Cebu - New Tokyo International Airport (Now Narita International Airport), Narita, Japan near Tokyo route. ... Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef (also transliterated as Ramzi Yusuf, Ramzi Youssef), birth name possibly Abdul Basit Karim. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... Air France Flight 8969 (AF8969,AFR8969) was an Air France flight that was hijacked on December 24, 1994 at Algiers. ... DVD cover Gia is a 1998 film about the life of bisexual drug-abusing supermodel Gia Marie Carangi. ...1995 * January 6: Operation Bojinka is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment. * March 20: Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway by AUM Shinrikyo cultists * April 19: ETA Basque militant group tries to kill José María Aznar (then leader of the Popular Party, later a Spanish Prime Minister) bombing his car, kills a woman. * April 19: Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 people, 19 of them children. * Bombings in France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill seven and injure more than 100. * August 27: Suicide bomber in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 24, injures 40. * October 9: An Amtrak Sunset Limited train is derailed by anti-government saboteurs near Palo Verde, Arizona. * November 11: Suicide bombing of army headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka kills 15. * November 13: Bombing of military compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 7 * November 19: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19. * December 11: ETA Basque militant group bombs a military truck in Madrid, killing 6 civilian public servants.January 6 is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Operation Bojinka (also known as Project Bojinka, Bojinka Plot, Bojinga, from Arabic: – slang in many dialects for explosion and pronounced Bo-JIN-ka, except in Egyptian where it is Bo-GIN-ka) was a planned large-scale attack on airliners in 1995, and was a precursor to the September... For other meanings of the word, see Manila (disambiguation). ... March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... The Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, usually referred to in the (chikatetsu sarin jiken subway sarin incident) was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by members of the religious group Aum Shinrikyo on March 20, 1995. ... Aum Shinrikyo (also spelled Om Shin Rikyo) was a religious group which mixed Buddhist and Hindu beliefs and was based in Japan. ... In religion and sociology, a cult is a relatively small and cohesive group of people (often a new religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be far outside the mainstream. ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA , is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ... José MarÃa Aznar López (born February 25, 1953, in Madrid, Spain) was Prime Minister of the Spanish government from May 5, 1996 to April 17, 2004. ... April 19 is the 109th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (110th in leap years). ... Damage to the Murrah building before cleanup began. ... In 1995, the GIA Islamist militant group staged a series of attacks against the French public, targeting public transportation. ... DVD cover Gia is a 1998 film about the life of bisexual drug-abusing supermodel Gia Marie Carangi. ... Khaled Kelkal Khaled Kelkal (1971 - September 29, 1995) was an Algerian terrorist affiliated with the GIA. He was involved in several gunfights and was one of the men behind the islamist bombing campaign in France in 1995. ... August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... For the American televison series see Columbo. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years). ... Amtrak is the trademark name of the intercity passenger train system created on May 1, 1971 in the United States. ... Amtraks Sunset Limited is a 68-hour railroad route that connects Orlando, Florida to Los Angeles, California. ... The 1995 Palo Verde derailment happened on October 9, 1995, an Amtrak Sunset Limited train derailed near Palo Verde, Arizona. ... This article is about Sabotage sabotage can also refer to: an early Black Sabbath album (Sabotage), the Alfred Hitchcock films (Sabotage or Saboteur), a Beastie Boys song, or a type of shock site. ... The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, located in Wintersburg, Arizona, about 50 miles (80 km) west of central Phoenix, is currently the largest nuclear generation facility in the United States, producing over 30,000 gigawatts of electricity anually to serve approximately 4 million people. ... State nickname: The Grand Canyon State, The Copper State Other U.S. States Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Governor Janet Napolitano (D) Official languages English Only State Area 295,254 km² (6th) - Land 294,312 km² - Water 942 km² (0. ... November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 50 days remaining. ... For the American televison series see Columbo. ... November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... Riyadh from space, April 1994 Ministry of the Interior Faisaliah Centre King Fahad Int. ... November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... December 11 is the 345th day (346th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... ETA symbol Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA (IPA: [ˈɛË?ta]), is an armed Basque separatist organisation that seeks, through violence, to create an independent socialist state for the Basque people, separate from Spain and France, the states that currently control the Basque country. ...1996 * January: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers. * January: Provisional Irish Republican Army plants a bomb that police defuse at the Canary Wharf towers in London. * January 31: Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400. * February 9: IRA bombs the South Quay DLR station, killing two people. * February 25 - March 4: A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within 10 days. * June 15: Manchester bombing by IRA. * June 25: Khobar Towers bombing. * July 24: Bomb on commuter train in Sri Lanka kills 57. * July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111. * December 17: Japanese embassy hostage crisis begins in Lima, Peru; it ends April 22, 1997 with the deaths of 14 rebels, two soldiers and a hostage.January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Kizlyar IE, Russian knife company. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the Ra) is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation. ... Canary Wharf in Tower Hamlets, London, United Kingdom, is a large business development on the Isle of Dogs, centred on the old West India Docks in the London Docklands. ... St. ... January 31 is the 31st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Central Bank Bombing was one of the most devastating terrorist bombings in the 1990s, and was the deadliest attack in the long civil war in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tigers. ... February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... South Quay is a Docklands Light Railway station on the Isle of Dogs, in London. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who believes the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attacks primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons). ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... On Saturday June 15, 1996, the Provisional Irish Republican Army exploded a 3300lb bomb in central Manchester. ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... Building #131 after the explosion Khobar Towers is part of an housing complex in the city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia near the national oil company (Saudi Aramco) headquarters of Dhahran. ... July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... There are various types of trains designed for particular purposes, see rail transport operations. ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... The Centennial Olympic Park bombing is one of a series of terrorist bombings committed by Eric Robert Rudolph. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Japanese embassy hostage crisis began on December 17, 1996 in Lima, Peru, when fourteen members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) took hostage hundreds of high-level diplomats, government and military officials, and business executives who were attending a party in celebration of Emperor Akihitos 63rd birthday... Lima is the capital and largest city in Peru. ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...1997 * February 24: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine". * November 17: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers. * December 22: Acteal massacre – 46 killed while praying in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico. A paramilitary group associated with ex-president Salinas is held responsible.February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Empire State Building Entrance lobby The Empire State Building, a 102-story contemporary Art Deco style building in New York City, was designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Associates and built in 1931. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, music, and culture. ... Palestine Eretz Yisrael; Arabic: Ù?لسطين Filasá¹Ä«n) is the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east. ... November 17 is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece. ... Djeser-Djeseru The Luxor Massacre took place on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahri, an archaelogical site located across the River Nile from Luxor in Egypt. ... The River Nile at Luxor Street market in Luxor See also the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Luxor is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt. ... December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Acteal Massacre was a massacre of 45 people (although some sources claim 60 or more) attending a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas. ... Chiapas is a state in the southeast of Mexico. ... Term of office: 1 December 1988 â“ 1 December 1994 Preceded by: Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado Succeeded by: Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León Date of birth: 3 April 1948 Place of birth: Mexico City Profession: Economist First Lady: Cecilia Ocelli Political Party: PRI Carlos Salinas de Gortari (born 3...1998 * January : Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed insurgents in Indian controlled Kashmir city of Wandhama . * January 25: Bombing of Sri Dalada Maligawa in Kandy, Sri Lanka kills 17. * August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000. * August 15: Omagh bombing by the so-called "Real IRA" kills 29.January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... The Hindu temple in Wandhama after it was desecrated and destroyed by the terorists . ... A Kashmiri Pandit (also called Bata) is a name used to refer to a sect of Hindus who ancestrally originate from Kashmir. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Outside view of the Temple The Sri Dalada Maligawa or The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic is a temple in the city of Kandy in Sri Lanka. ... Kandy (the Sacred City of Kandy) is a city in the centre of Sri Lanka. ... August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... Aftermath at the Nairobi embassy. ... Dar es Salaam , formerly Mzizima, is the largest city (pop. ... Nairobi skyline Nairobi is the capital of Kenya. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... The Omagh bombing was a car bomb attack carried out by the Real IRA on August 15, 1998, against civilians in Omagh, Northern Ireland. ... Categories: Wikipedia cleanup | Organization stubs | Terrorist organizations in Northern Ireland | Rebellion ...1999 * January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25. * April: David Copeland's nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London kill three people and injure over 160. * August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War. * December: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots * December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots * December 24: Indian Airlines Flight 814from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released.January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Shia Islam ( Arabic ???? follower; English has traditionally used Shiite or Shiite) is the second largest Islamic denomination; some 20-25% of all Muslims are said to follow a Shia tradition. ... Faisal Mosque, located in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, was built in 1986. ... April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... David Copeland David John Copeland (born May 15, 1976) is a former member of the British neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement who became known as the London nailbomber after a 12-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at Londons black, Asian, and gay communities. ... A nail bomb is an anti-personnel explosive device packed with nails to increase its destructive power. ... St. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... September 22 is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years). ... The Russian apartment bombings were a series of bombings in Russia that killed nearly 300 people and led the country into the Second Chechen War. ... The Second Chechen War is part of an ongoing conflict in the Chechen Republic (Chechnya) and Russia. ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... The organization Al-Qaida encouraged attacks against Israel and the United States on or around January 1, 2000. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This photograph of Ahmed Ressam was seen on televisions across the U.S. following his arrest. ... Port Angeles is a city located in Clallam County, Washington. ... This article is the most common use of LAX. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). ... The organization Al-Qaida encouraged attacks against Israel and the United States on or around January 1, 2000. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... Indian Airlines Flight 814 was a flight that flew from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, Indias Indira Gandhi International Airport On Christmas Eve, December 24, 1999, the flight was hijacked shortly after takeoff by terrorists. ... This article is about the city. ... This article deals with the city of Delhi. ... The Taliban (Pashtun and Persian: طالبان; students), also transliterated as Taleban, is an Islamist and Pashtun nationalist movement which ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, despite having diplomatic recognition from only three countries: the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. ...2000s2000 * Terrorism against Israel in 2000. * The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks. * German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot. * June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens. * October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors.Terrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 This page is a partial list of incidents of terrorism against Israel in 2000. ... The organization Al-Qaida encouraged attacks against Israel and the United States on or around January 1, 2000. ... USS The Sullivans (DDG-68), an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided missile destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the five Sullivan brothers — George, Francis, Eugene, Madison, and Albert Sullivan, aged 20 to 29 — who lost their lives when their ship, Juneau, was... The Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot was a plan to blow up a cathedral in Strasbourg, France by members of Al-Qaida. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... Brigadier Stephen Saunders (1947 - 8 June 2000), the British military attaché in Athens, was murdered on 8 June 2000 by motorcycle gunmen who were members of Revolutionary Organization 17 November (N17). ... November 17 (also known as 17N or N17) was a Marxist Greek terrorist organisation listed in U.S. State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. ... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... Damage to USS Cole The USS Cole bombing was a suicide bombing attack against the guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) on October 12, 2000. ...2001 * Terrorism against Israel in 2001. * February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people. * August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility. * "9/11": The attacks on September 11 kill almost 3,000 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. * Paris embassy attack plot foiled. * October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more. * Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid. * December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament. * Jewish Defense League plot to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, foiled. * Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.Terrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 This page is a partial listing of incidents of terrorism against Israel in 2001. ... February 5 is the 36th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Plan of the Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro in Moscow, Russia is the worlds most heavily used metro system (see List of metro systems). ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attacks primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons). ... Jerusalem (31°46â² N 35°14â² E; Hebrew: Yerushalayim; see also names of Jerusalem) is an ancient Middle Eastern city of key importance to the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ... The Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing took place on August 9, 2001 in Jerusalem, Israel. ... The Hamas emblem shows two crossed swords, the Dome of the Rock, and a map of the land they claim as Palestine (roughly, present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). ... Islamic Jihad (Arabic: Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) is a militant Islamist group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus. ... 9-11 can refer to: The September 11, 2001 attacks A collection of interviews of Noam Chomsky by a variety of European publications and individual interviewers during the month after the September 11, 2001 attacks September 11 (month-day date notation) 9 November (day-month date notation) The North American... The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated attacks carried out in the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. ... September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years). ... The twin towers, photographed from the west The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of seven buildings leased by Larry Silverstein from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey around a central plaza, near the south end of Manhattan in the downtown financial district. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, music, and culture. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th) - Land 122,409 km² - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... A pre-9/11 view of The Pentagon, looking east with the Potomac River and Washington Monument in the distance. ... Arlington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia (which calls itself a commonwealth), directly across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. By an act of Congress July 9, 1846, the area south of the Potomac was returned to Virginia effective in 1847 As of 2000... State nickname: Old Dominion Other U.S. States Capital Richmond Largest city Virginia Beach Governor Mark R. Warner (D) Official languages English Area 110,862 km² (35th) - Land 102,642 km² - Water 8,220 km² (7. ... Somerset County is a county located in the state of Pennsylvania. ... State nickname: The Keystone State Other U.S. States Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Governor Ed Rendell (D) Official languages None Area 119,283 km² (33rd) - Land 116,074 km² - Water 3,208 km² (2. ... This article is about the Al-Qaida plot to destroy the United States embassy in Paris, France, as well as a munitions depot in Belgium. ... October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). ... Jammu and Kashmir is the northern-most province of the Republic of India, with Srinagar as its capital and Jammu as its winter-capital. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle containing weaponized anthrax powder caused the deaths of two postal workers. ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Parliament of India is bicameral. ... The Jewish Defense League (JDL) is an armed Jewish movement aimed at protecting Jewish people and property from anti-Semitism. ... Culver City sign, at the northeast corner of the Sepulveda Boulevard and Centinela Avenue intersection, near the 405 and the 90 freeway interchange. ... Richard Reid, in a prison photograph Richard Colvin Reid (born August 12, 1973), also known as the shoe bomber, is a British citizen born in Bromley, South London and a Muslim allegedly working for Al Qaeda who was arrested on December 22, 2001 for attempting to destroy a passenger airliner... Matt Lauer with the crew of Flight 63, the Shoebomber flight. ...2002 * Terrorism against Israel in 2002. * Singapore embassies attack plot foiled. * January: Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl. * March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya. * March 27: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Netanya suicide attack. * March 31: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre. * April 11: A natural gas truck fitted with explosives is driven into a synagogue in Tunisia by an al-Qaeda member, killing 21 and wounding more than 30 in the Ghriba Synagogue Attack. * May 8: Bus Attack in Karachi. * May 9: A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities. * June 14: Attack outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi. * July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing 2 Israelis before being killed himself. * September 25: Two terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed group raid the Akshardham temple complex in Ahmedabad, India killing 30 people and injuring many more. * October 2002: Beltway Sniper Attacks around the Washington metropolitan area kill 10 people and leave the region paranoid for weeks, caused by domestic terrorists. * October 6: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen. * October 12: Bali car bombing of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff. * October 17: Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150. * October 18: A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22. * October 19: A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five. * October 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later. * November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing.Terrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 This page is a partial list of incidents of terrorism against Israel in 2002. ... Al-Qaida and Jemaah Islamiyah planned to bomb the embassies of the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Israel in Singapore and several other targets in Singapore. ... January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... Daniel Pearl Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963â“January 29/30, 2002) was a journalist, an American-Israeli dual citizen. ... March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (87th in Leap years). ... Passover, also known as Pesach or Pesah (פסח pesaḥ), is a Holy Day, observed by several religions, beginning on the evening of the 14th day of Nisan and lasting seven days (in Israel and among some liberal Diaspora Jews, and eight days among other Diaspora Jews) that commemorates the exodus and... Netanya is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. ... The Netanya suicide attack (also known as the Netanya bombing and the Passover massacre) was a Palestinian suicide bombing in Park Hotel at Netanya on March 27, 2002. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... The Hamas emblem shows two crossed swords, the Dome of the Rock, and a map of the land they claim as Palestine (roughly, present-day Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip). ... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attacks primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons). ... For the Lebanese singer, see Haifa Wehbe Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel, with a population close to 300,000. ... The Matza restaurant massacre occurred on March 31, 2001, when a Palestinian suicide bomber, member of the Hamas terrorist organization, exploded inside the Matza restaurant in Haifa, Israel. ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... Natural gas rig Natural gas (commonly refered to as gas in many countries) is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ... A synagogue or synagog is a Jewish house of prayer and study. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: ???????, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... The Ghriba Synagogue Attack was a deadly bombing carried out in Tunisia by the al-Qaeda terrorist group on the El Ghriba synagogue. ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... The May 8 Bus Attack in Karachi was one of a series of deadly strikes on Westerners in Pakistan in 2002. ... May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... The Republic of Dagestan (Russian: , transliteration: Respublika Dagestan), also spelled Daghestan, is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... May 9, Soviet poster based on the famous photo of the Soviet flag being raised over the Reichstag in 1945. ... June 14 is the 165th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (166th in leap years), with 200 days remaining. ... On the morning of June 14, 2002, a truck with a fertilizer bomb driven by a suicide driver was detonated outside the US Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... This article is the most common use of LAX. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). ... September 25 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Jaish-e-Mohammed or Jaishi-Mohammed (the Army of Muhammad) (formed 1994) is a Jihad militant Islamist group based in Pakistan and funded from United Kingdom (Birmingham) active in carrying out armed attacks on Indian armed forces and civilians in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. ... BAPS mandir in Houston, TX, United States Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha or BAPS is one of the largest and most influential orthodox Hindu sects, with more than 1,000,000 followers worldwide and a greater presence outside South Asia than any other Hindu group. ... Ahmedabad (Amdavad in Gujarati) or AhmadÄ?bÄ?d is the largest city in Gujarat and the sixth largest city in India with a population of almost 5 million. ... 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for October, 2002. ... Locations of the 15 sniper attacks numbered chronologically. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... The Limburg tanker boming involved the October 6, 2002 bombing of the Limburg, a French oil tanker. ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... The Bali Bombing occurred on October 12, 2002 in the town of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali, killing 202 people and injuring a further 209. ... October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... The Zamboanga bombings refer to the October 17, 2002 explosions of two bombs in the main shopping district of the mostly Christian city of Zamboanga in the southern Philippines, killing six and wounding about 150. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... Manila (Filipino: Maynila) is the capital city of the Philippines. ... October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... McDonalds Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the worlds largest chain of fast-food restaurants [1]. Although McDonalds did not invent the hamburger or fast food, its name has become nearly synonymous with both. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... The Moscow theater hostage crisis was the October 23, 2002 seizure of a crowded Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels, who took over 700 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya. ... November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... On November 28, 2002, the Kenyan hotel bombing terrorist attack took place. ...2003 * Terrorism against Israel in 2003. * February 7: Car bomb kills 36 and injures 150 at the El Nogal nightclub in Bogotá, Colombia; FARC rebels are blamed. * March 4: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21. * May 12: Bombings of United States expat housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed. * May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59. * May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya. * May 16: Casablanca Attacks by 12 bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group. * July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow. * August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76. * August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100. * August 25: At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai - one near the Gateway of India at the other at the Zaveri Bazaar. * August 29: Car bomb outside Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, kills more than 80 people, including SCIRI leader Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim. * September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90. * October 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre. * October 15: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans. * November 15 and November 20: Truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings. * December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia * December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least 11.Terrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 This page is a partial list of incidents of terrorism against Israel in 2003. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The FARC-EPs flag The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia â“ Ejército del Pueblo (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia â“ Peoples Army, or FARC-EP) is a militant and revolutionary guerrilla group established in 1964-1966 as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party, and is Colombias... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... Davao refers to several places in Mindanao in the Philippines. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... The Riyadh Compound Bombings took place on May 12, 2003, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ... Al-Qaeda is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... The Casablanca Attacks were a series of suicide bombings on May 16, 2003, in Casablanca, Morocco that were the deadliest terrorist attacks in that countryâ™s history. ... Hassan II Mosque A view on the boulevard de Paris in central Casablanca Parc de la Ligue Arabe Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. ... Al-Qaeda (Arabic: ???????, the foundation or the base) is the name given to a worldwide network of militant Islamist organizations under the leadership of Osama bin Laden. ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... Categories: Russia-related stubs | North Ossetia | Cities in Russia ... August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, in the afternoon of August 19, 2003, killed at least 22 people and wounded over 100. ... A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad *See Bagdad, Tasmania for the Australian town of a similar name. ... Sérgio Vieira de Mello Sérgio Vieira de Mello (March 15, 1948 - August 19, 2003) was a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations (UN) for over 30 years, earning respect and praise around the world for his efforts in the sometimes amorphous humanitarian programs of the UN... August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... Mumbai (Marathi: मà¥?म़बई IPA: ), formerly known as Bombay (IPA: ), is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra and is the most populous Indian city with a 2005 estimated population of about 17 million. ... The Gateway of India The Gateway of India is a monument located in Mumbai, India. ... August 29 is the 241st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (242nd in leap years), with 124 days remaining. ... Exterior view of Imam Ali Mosque The Imam Ali Mosque, also known as Meshed Ali or the Tomb of Ali, is a mosque located in Najaf, Iraq. ... Najaf (Arabic: ) is a city in Iraq, about 160 km south of Baghdad, located at 31. ... The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) is an Iraqi political party; its support comes from the countrys Shia Muslim community and from their fellow religionists in neighbouring Iran. ... Ayatollah Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim (1939 - August 29, 2003) was the foremost Shia Muslim leader in Iraq until his assassination in a bombing that killed him along with nearly 100 worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in Najaf at which he had led prayers. ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ... October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). ... For the Lebanese singer, see Haifa Wehbe Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel, with a population close to 300,000. ... The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing occurred on October 4, 2003, when a 29-year-old female Palestinian suicide bomber, Hanadi Jaradat, exploded inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa. ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... The Palestinian flag, adopted in 1948, is a widely recognized modern symbol of the Palestinian people. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Shows the Location of the Province Ä°stanbul Istanbul (Turkish: Ä°stanbul; contraction of the citys previous Greek name Constantinople) is the largest city in Turkey, and arguably the most important. ... The Istanbul Bombings were two terrorist attacks carried out on two days in November 2003. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...2004 * Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004. * February 1: 109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq. * February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41. * February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116. * March 2: Ashoura Massacre: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura. * March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160. * March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey. * March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500. * April 21: Basra bombs in Iraq kill 74 and injure hundreds. * April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5. * May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia. * August 24: Russian airplane bombings kill 90. * August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33. * September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in 344 dead. * September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people. * October 7: Sinai bombings: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists. * December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 5 local employees. * December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines, kills 15.Terrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 This page is a partial listing of incidents of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2004. ... February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... ArbÄ«l (أربيل, also transliterated as Irbil or Erbil) is one of the governorates of Iraq. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Plan of the Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro in Moscow, Russia is the worlds most heavily used metro system (see List of metro systems). ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Superferry 14 was a large ferry destroyed by a bomb on February 27, 2004, killing 116 people in the Philippines worst terrorist attack. ... The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), or simply Abu Sayyaf, also known as Al Harakat Al Islamiyya, is a separatist group of islamist terrorists based in and around the southern islands of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao. ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... The Ashoura Massacre was a series of planned terrorist explosions, that killed 170 and injured 500 Iraqi Shiite Muslims commemorating the Ashoura festival. makes up the second largest sect of believers in Islam, constituting about 30%–35% of all Muslim. ... The Day of Aashurah, sometimes spelled ‘Ashurah or Aashoorah, falls on the 10th day of Muharram in the Islamic calendar. ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... Shi?a Islam makes up the second largest sect of believers in Islam, constituting about 30%–35% of all Muslim. ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... An attack of an Istanbul restaurant on March 9, 2004 killed one, and injured five. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... The scene of one of the Madrid bombings. ... Plaza de Cibeles (Cibeles square) and the Palacio de Comunicaciones (Communications Palace) Coat of arms. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... On 21 April 2004, a series of large bomb explosions ripped through Basra, Iraq. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... Riyadh from space, April 1994 Ministry of the Interior Faisaliah Centre King Fahad Int. ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... In the 29 May 2004 Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia, four Islamist terrorists attacked two oil industry installations and a foreign workers housing complex, The Oasis, in the Gulf city of Khobar, Saudi Arabia, taking more than 50 hostages and killing 22 of them. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... The Russian airplane bombings of August 2004 was a terrorist attack on two domestic Russian passenger aircraft at 23:00 on August 24, 2004. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). ... Aftermath of the gym in School Number One The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to by the media as the Beslan school siege) began when armed muslim terrorists took hundreds of schoolchildren and adults hostage on September 1, 2004, at School Number One in the Russian town of Beslan... The Republic of North Ossetia-Alania is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic). ... September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ... The bomb left a crater in the road three metres deep The Jakarta embassy bombing took place on September 9, 2004 in Jakarta, Indonesia. ... Map of Indonesia showing Jakarta Jakarta (also Djakarta or DKI Jakarta, formerly known as Batavia) is the capital and the largest city of Indonesia, located on the northwest coast of the island of Java, at 6°11â² S 106°50â² E. It has an area of 650 km² and a... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... The 2004 Sinai bombings were three bomb attacks targeting tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on October 7, 2004. ... Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula lying between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south), located in Egypt and has an area of... December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jeddah from space, September 1995 Jeddah (also Jedda, Jiddah, or Juddah; Arabic: Ǧiddah) is a city in western Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea. ... December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... General Santos City, or GenSan for short, is a city in Mindanao in the Philippines. ...2005 * February 14: A car bomb kills former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 others in Beirut. * February 25: A suicide bombing in Tel Aviv kills 5 Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides. * February 28: About 125 Iraqis killed by a suicide car bomb outside a medical centre in Hilla, south of Baghdad. * March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds 12 others. * April: April 2005 terrorist attacks in Cairo – On April 7 a suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. In two further attacks on 30 April, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire. * May 7: Multiple bomb explosions across Myanmar's capital Rangoon kill 19 and injure 160. * June 1: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people. * June 12: Bombs explode in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran, leaving 10 dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian presidential election. * July 5: Six terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba storm the Ayodhya Ram Janmbhomi complex in India. Before the terrorists could reach the main disputed site, they were shot down by Indian security forces. One devotee and two policemen were injured.WikinewsWikinews has news related to this article:Coordinated terrorist attack in London * July 7: 7 July 2005 London bombings - Attacks on one double-decker bus and three London Underground trains, killing 55+ people and injuring over 700, occur on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference. The attacks are believed by many to be the first suicide bombings in Western Europe. * July 12: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel, which kills 5 people at a shopping mall. * July 16: A suicide bomber blows up an oil tanker in the predominantly Shiite town of Musayyib in Iraq, killing 98 people. * July 21: 21 July 2005 London bombings - Small explosions in 3 London Underground stations and 1 double-decker bus. This was pronounced as a "major incident" rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported. These 4 bombs were designed to cause as much damage at the 7 July 2005 London bombings but the explosive had deteriorated and failed to detonate. * July 23:Sharm el-Sheikh bombings: Car bombs explode at tourist sites in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing at least 88 and wounding more than 100. * August 4 : Jewish terrorist in an IDF uniform opens fire on a bus in Shfaram, Israel, killing 4 Arab Israelis and wounding 5. * August 13, 2005 : Yugoslavian terrorists invade amsterdamn and masturebate to the commonfolk. Several thousand were injured due to semen poisoning, due to the floods produced by the terrorists. Scientinsts are now looking into why the Yougoslavs have such high sperm count.February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... Rafiq Bahaa Edine Hariri (born November, 1944) is a Lebanese billionaire businessman, and was Prime Minister of Lebanon until his resignation on October 20, 2004. ... Central Beirut (2004) Beirut (Arabic: , transliterated BayrÅ«t - the French name, Beyrouth, was also commonly used in English in the past) is the capital, largest city and chief seaport of Lebanon. ... February 25 is the 56th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who believes the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attacks primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons). ... Tel Aviv at night Dizengof Center Allenby Street Tel Aviv-Yafo is an Israeli city on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. ... February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Al Hillah is a city in central Iraq on the river Euphrates, 100km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, with an estimated population of 364,700 in 1998. ... A street map of Baghdad Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Baghdad *See Bagdad, Tasmania for the Australian town of a similar name. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... A car bomb is a bomb that is placed in a car or truck and is intended to be exploded while there. ... Doha, Qatar Doha (population 370,000) is the capital of Qatar, located on the Persian Gulf. ... The term Briton may have the following meanings: In an historical context: The indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain in pre-Roman times. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- ? Ongoing events • Iraqi legislative election • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • Tsunami relief • Cedar Revolution in Lebanon • Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan • German Visa Affair 2005 • Expo 2005 in Nagoya, Japan • Terri Schiavo controversy • Pope John Paul II... The April 2005 attacks were three related incidents that took place in the city of Cairo, Egypt, on 7 April and 30 April 2005. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attacks primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons). ... Although technically in Giza, The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; romanized: al-QÄ?hirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... Yangôn, formerly Rangoon, population 4,504,000 (2001), is the capital of Myanmar. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... KandahÄ?r (or QandahÄ?r) is a city in southern Afghanistan, the capital of Kandahar province. ... June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ... Map of Iran and surrounding lands, showing location of Ahvaz The township of Ahvaz is built on the banks of the Karun River in the middle of the Iranian province of Khuzestan. ... Tehran is a metropolis of 14 million situated at the foot of the towering Alborz range. ... The Iranian presidential election of 2005, the ninth presidential election in Iranian history, took place in two rounds, first on June 17, 2005, and then as a run-off on June 24. ... July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Ayodhya is an ancient city of India, the old capital of Awadh, in the Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh. ... A view of the Babri Mosque, circa pre-1992. ... A view of the Babri Mosque, circa pre-1992. ... The Military of India consists of the Indian Army, Navy (including naval air arm), Air Force, the Border Security Force, Assam Rifles, Rashtriya Rifles, National Security Guards, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, Special Frontier Force, Central Reserve Police Force, National Cadet Corps, Defense Security Corps, and the Strategic Forces Command. ... For the band, see The Police. ... Wikinews logo. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... On Thursday 7 July 2005 a series of four bomb attacks struck Londons public transport system during the morning rush hour. ... A double-decker bus is a bus which has two levels, typically seating 60-80 passengers. ... Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and some outdoor signs. ... Official G8 2005 Portrait. ... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death (see suicide, suicide weapons). ... July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... Islamic Jihad (Arabic: Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) is a militant Islamist group based in the Syrian capital, Damascus. ... Netanya is a city in the Center District of Israel in Israel. ... July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... A tanker is usually a vehicle carrying large amounts of liquid fuel. ... July 21 is the 202nd day (203rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 163 days remaining. ... Wikinews has news related to this article: Four small explosions strike Londons transport system On 21 July 2005, four attempted bomb attacks disrupted part of Londons public transport system two weeks after the 7 July 2005 London bombings. ... Slight modifications to the famous London Underground roundel indicate the name of each station on platform and some outdoor signs. ... A double-decker bus is a bus which has two levels, typically seating 60-80 passengers. ... On Thursday 7 July 2005 a series of four bomb attacks struck Londons public transport system during the morning rush hour. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... Egypt On July 23, 2005 a series of attacks took place in the Egyptian resort arak|Mubarak]] government, and attacking foreigners including non-Muslims while hurting Egypts tourist trade was seen as serving both goals. ... View of the Red Sea and Tiran Island from the Sheraton Sharm hotel Sharm el-Sheikh, also transliterated as Sharm ash Shaykh), often known simply as Sharm, is a city situated on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in Janub Sina, Egypt, on the coastal strip between the Red... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Tsva Ha-Haganah Le-Yisrael ([Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated ??? Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces (army, air force and navy). ... Shefa-Amr (Arabic Ø´Ù?ا عمر Shafâ `Amr, Hebrew שפרע×? Shfaram, unofficially also spelled Shefaram) is a city in the North District in Israel. ... Israeli Arabs, or 1948 Palestinians, are those Arabs who remained inside the borders of what would become Israel after 1948, when most Arabs fled the country in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War (see also Nakba). ...This is a list of international terrorist attacks that occurred in Canada. ... This is a timeline of the terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia derived from reports in the Saudi media and other sources. ... This is an incomplete list of persons that were assassinated for political and other reasons, and who have individual entries. ... Aircraft hijacking (also known as Skyjacking) is the take-over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. ... 1812 - Barbary pirates kidnap American sailors on USS Philadelphia, demand ransom payments 1865 - Former confederate agent assassinates US President Abraham Lincoln 1901 - President William McKinley assassinated by Russian-Polish anarchist, Leon Czolgosz 1950 - Puerto Rican nationalists fail to assassinate President Truman 1964 - John F. Kennedy assassinated by communist sympathizer, Lee... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jammu and Kashmir has been the target of a campaign of terrorism and militancy propagated against India by all sides of the conflict. ... Credits: * MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base * Fatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993) to September 2000 * US State Department's List of Significant Terrorist Incidents (1961 - 2003) * Dmoz.org's Society Issues - Terrorism Incidents * Terrorism Time Line * History of Terrorism : Timeline of Terrorist Acts - Chronology * Thinkquest : Timeline of Terror * Time.com: A Timeline of Terrorism - Hits and Misses * Infoplease : Terrorist Attacks on Americans * Infoplease : Terrorist Attacks (within the United States or against Americans abroad) * Frontline : Terrorist Attacks on AmericansFrontline is an hour-long public affairs television program produced at WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed through the Public Broadcasting Service network in the United States. ...Images may be subject to relevant owners' copyright.All other elements are (c) copyright NationMaster.com 2003-5. All Rights Reserved. Usage implies agreement with terms.
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