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List Of Terrorist Incidents The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered terrorism. Massacres more generally are listed chronologically at List of massacres; assassinations are listed by location at List of assassinated people. Note: there is no single accepted definition of terrorism in common use. Incidents listed here are commonly called terrorism, or meet some of the commonly used criteria. Pre-11th century 11th-18th century 19th century 1900s-1940s 1950s-1960s 1970s 1970-1971 1972-1973 1974-1975 1976-1977 - 1976 A Cubana aircraft was bombed while flying from Barbados to Havana, killing 73
- 1976 February 3 Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus in Djibouti, killing one girl
- 1976 February 16 Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia assassinate Turkish diplomat Oktay Cerit in Paris
- 1976 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.
- 1976 September 21 Orlando Letelier assassinated in Washington by Chilean government.
- 1976 December 4 In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official was killed.
- 1976 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.
- 1977 April 7 Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.
- 1977 May 23 In the Netherlands, RMS activists kept 105 children and 5 teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.
- 1977 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.
- 1977 July 30 Jrgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.
- 1977 September 5 Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was executed by the Red Army Faction on October 19 1977.
- 1977 October 13 Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four Arabs around the leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud".
1978-1979 1980s 1980-1981 1982-1983 1984-1985 1986-1987 - 1986 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.
- 1986 TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; 4 Americans, including an infant, are killed.
- 1986 June 14 ANC bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban, South Africa, 3 people killed, 73 wounded.
- 1986 July 15 ETA Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, kills 12.
- 1986 April 6 the La Belle discotheque in Berlin, a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing 3 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 dictator Qaddafi.
- 1986 Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.
- 1987 Enniskillen massacre. Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh is bombed by the IRA and 11 are killed and 63 injured.
- 1987 June 19th, ETA Basque militant group bomb in Hipercor Mall's parking in Barcelona, kills 21, 45 injured.
- 1987 KAL Flight 858 bombed by North Korea.
- 1987 December 11 ETA Basque militant group bomb a Guardia Civil police bedrooms in Zaragoza, kills 11, 40 injured.
1988-1989 1990s 1990-1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000s 2000 2001 - 2001 Terrorism against Israel in 2001.
- 2001 February 5 A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya subway station injures 15 people.
- 2001 August 9 A suicide bomber in Jerusalem, Israel kills 7 and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
- 2001 September 11, 2001 attacks kill almost 3,000 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two 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.
- 2001 Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
- 2001 Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
- 2001 December 13, 2001 Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
- 2001 Jewish Defense League plot to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California foiled.
- 2001 Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
2002 2003 2004 - 2004 Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004.
- 2004 February 1 109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq.
- 2004 February 6 Bomb on Moscow subway kills 41.
- 2004 February 27 Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
- 2004 March 2 Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.
- 2004 March 2 Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160.
- 2004 March 9 Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.
- 2004 March 11 bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.
- 2004 March 22 - Israeli helicopter gunship assassinates Ahmed Yassin
- 2004 April 21 Basra bombs in Iraq kill 74 and injure hundreds.
- 2004 April 21 Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5.
- 2004 May 29 Al-Khobar massacres--Islamist militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
- 2004 August 24 Russian airplane bombings kill 90.
- 2004 August 31 A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
- 2004 September 1 - 3 Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia results in over 330 dead.
- 2004 September 9 Jakarta embassy bombing - the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people.
- 2004 October 7 Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 32 and wounding 114, most of them Israeli tourists.
- 2004 November 2 Theo van Gogh, a Dutch film maker, is assasinated in Amsterdam by a radical Islamist.
- 2004 December 6 Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 5 local employees.
- 2004 December 12 Bombing at Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines killing 15.
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