17.919 - 2004.01.14
Handout: Important historical incidents of terrorist violence


date type target perpetrators result
1 1881 assassination Tsar Alexander II Zemlia i Volia 1 KIA
2 1914 assassination Archduke Franz Ferdinand Black Hand 2 KIA
3 1946 bombing King David Hotel (Palestine) Irgun (zionist) 200+ casualties
4 1970 hijacking Dawson Field (Jordan) PFLP (Palestinian) 3 aircraft
5 1972 hostages Munich Olympics Black September 11 KIA
6 1973 assassination Admiral Blanco ETA
7 1975 hostages OPEC summit (Vienna) PFLP & RAF under Carlos the Jackal 11 ministers ransomed
8 1977 assassination Hans Martin Schleyer Red Army Faction (RAF) 4 KIA
9 1978 assassination Aldo Moro (former PM Italy) Red Brigades 6 KIA
10 1979 assassination Lord Mountbatten (on yacht) IRA 19 KIA
11 1979 hostages Great Mosque (Mecca) Mahdists
12 1980 bombing Bologne Train Station Italian fascists 85 KIA
13 1983 suicide bombing US Marine barracks, Lebanon Islamic Jihad 241 KIA
14 1985 hostagesAchille Lauro cruise ship Abu Abbas 1 KIA
15 1985 hostages Columbian Supreme Court (11 Justices) FARC 100+ KIA
16 1986 mortar attack 10 Downing Street (PM residence UK) IRA 0 KIA
17 1988 bombing Pan Am flight 103 Libya 260 KIA
18 1993 bombing London financial district IRA 400 m. pounds
19 1995 gas attack Tokyo Subway Aum Shin Rikyu 12 KIA
20 1995 bombing Federal Building (Oklahoma) militia faction 168 KIA
21 1998 bombing US embassies, Kenya and Tanzania Al Qaeda 200+ KIA
22 2000 suicide bombingUSS Cole (Aden) Al Qaeda 11 KIA
23 2001 suicide bombing World Trade Center and Pentagon Al Qaeda 3,000+ KIA
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