1886 -
Bomb thrown during labor rally at Haymarket Square kills 7
1905 - Frank Steunenberg, former Idaho governor, killed by
bomb
1910 - The Los Angeles Times
bombing by union activists kills 21 and injures some 100.
1916: The Preparedness Day
Bombing killed ten people and injured 40 in San Francisco.
1917: A
bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station, killing nine officers and a civilian
1919: Atlanta Ga -
mail bomb sent to home of senator Thomas Hardwick explodes, injuring a housekeeper and the senator's wife
1919:Anarchist
bombings kill a night watchman and a terrorist; additional bombings occurred in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, PA, Paterson, NJ, Cleveland, OH, and two in Pittsburgh, PA
1919: Boston, Massachusetts - Anarchist
bombing at the home of a state representative injured one child; a second bombing at the house of a judge
1920 - New York City, New York - Bomb in horse-drawn wagon exploded near Morgan bank in lower Manhattan
1920 - The Wall Street bombing kill 28 and seriously injures 143.
*truck detonated with explosives*
1927 -
School bombing in Bath, Michigan - explosion of
bomb placed in school, followed by suicide bombing
1933 - United Airlines -A Boeing 247 airliner flying from Cleveland to Chicago exploded in mid-air over Chesterton, Indiana. Ten people (7 passengers, 3 crew) were killed in the crash, and the cause was determined to be a
nitroglycerin bomb
1940 - New York City, New York -
bomb explodes at British Pavilion at the World's Fair, killing 2 police officers and injuring 2
1941 - Pearl Harbor, bombs, and planes used as
bombs- 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded
1951 - NAACP state director Harry Moore and his wife killed in
bombing of their house
1954 -1970 Bomb explodes in seat at Radio City Music Hall during a movie showing and lots of other places in New york city - George P. Metesky (November 2, 1903 – May 23, 1994), better
known as the Mad Bomber, terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.
Bombs were left in phone booths, storage lockers, and restrooms in public buildings, including Grand Central Terminal, Pennsylvania Station, Radio City Music Hall, the New York Public Library, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the RCA Building, as well as in the New York City Subway. Metesky also bombed movie theaters, where he cut into seat upholstery and slipped his explosive devices inside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Metesky
1955 - United Air Lines DC-8 (flight 629) exploded and crashed near Longmont, CO, destroyed by
bomb planted by John Graham in insurance plot to kill his mother, a passenger - 39 passengers and five crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
1957 - Western Air Lines Flight 39
Western 39 was a multi-stage flight on a route from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City to Cedar City to Las Vegas to Los Angeles. A passenger named Saul Binstock flew from Burbank, California, to Las Vegas and never left the airport terminal prior to boarding the Western Air Lines flight back to Los Angeles. The Convair CV-240 had just taken off carrying 16 people (13 passengers, 3 crew) when Binstock locked himself in the aft lavatory and set off a
dynamite bomb. Though he was killed and the blast created a 6 x 7 ft (1.8 x 2.1 m) hole in the fuselage, the plane managed to land safely with no further injuries.
1959 - Suicide
bombing at Poe
elementary school in Houston - Six people, including the perpetrator and his own son, were killed.
1960 - Boliva, North Carolina - National Airlines flight bombed in insurance plot
1962 - Continental Airlines Flight 11
dynamite bomb hidden in a towel container under the washbasin in the right rear lavatory detonated. The blast caused the plane's tail to break away and the aircraft went out of control, crashing near Unionville, Missouri, and taking the lives of 45 people (37 passengers, 8 crew)
1963 - 16th Street Baptist Church
bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, committed by the Ku Klux Klan. Four African-American girls are killed on Sunday morning.
1967 -An American Airlines Boeing 727 had departed Chicago when a small explosion occurred one hour and 42 minutes after takeoff. The blast was caused by a crude
homemade bomb located in the aft baggage hold. None of the 78 passengers and crew were injured and the plane landed safely.
1968 - Continental Airlines Boeing 707 carrying 70 people was preparing to land at Denver when an
explosion occurred in one of the lavatories. Though the blast started a small fire, the pilots were able to make an emergency landing with no injuries. A passenger seen leaving the lavatory just before the explosion was arrested by the FBI.
1970 - The first mass
aircraft hijackings occurred in 1970, the so-called Dawson's Field hijackings, when the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized control of two American planes and one Swiss airliner, all bound from Europe to the United States, to punish the United States for supporting Israel. The Pan Am, TWA and Swissair
planes were blown up on the ground in Jordan and Egypt.
1975 - The Puerto Rican nationalist FALN
bombs Fraunces Tavern in New York City on January 24, killing four and injuring more than 50.
1976 -An unoccupied Eastern Airlines L-188 Electra parked at Boston Logan Airport was
destroyed by a bomb planted in the landing gear compartment. No one was injured.
1978-1995 - Three people die and 23 others are wounded after a string of
mail bombings carried out by Ted Kaczynski
1979 - American Airlines Flight 444
American 444 was a Boeing 727 carrying 78 people (72 passengers, 6 crew) and headed from Chicago to Washington DC. Thirty minutes into flight,
a mail bomb hidden in a wooden box in the cargo hold ignited. The device produced large amounts of smoke but failed to detonate, though investigators found only a faulty timer prevented the bomb from obliterating the plane. The pilot made a successful emergency landing at Washington-Dulles but several passengers had to be treated for smoke inhalation. The bomb was built by Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.
1980 - United Airlines
Passengers were disembarking a Boeing 727 in Sacramento, California, when
a small cardboard box in the cargo hold detonated. The explosion injured two cargo handlers but none of the 44 passengers and crew were harmed.
1983 - November 7 - The Armed Resistance Unit, a militant leftist group,
bombs the U.S. Capitol in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
1985 - American Airlines
A
bomb hidden in a vinyl tote bag exploded aboard a Boeing 727. The blast occurred in the forward baggage hold while being unloaded and there were no fatalities.
1993 - February 26 - World Trade Center
bombing, 6 killed, 1,042 injured.
1995 - April 19 - Oklahoma City
bombing, 168 killed, over 800 injured.
1996 - July 27 - Centennial Olympic Park
bombing: during the Atlanta Olympics: 1 killed 111 injured.
2001 - September 11, 2001 attacks, 2,997 killed by Islamic fundamentalists
using planes as bombs
2010 - Cargo Bombing Attempt
On 29 October 2010, officials discovered two packages addressed to Jewish organizations in Chicago that contained explosive material. The sophisticated bombs contained approximately one pound of the explosive PETN and were found aboard cargo planes, although each had also been carried on passenger flights before their discovery. The first was found on a UPS plane in the United Kingdom while the second was discovered aboard a FedEx aircraft at Dubai. Each bomb was packaged within a printer toner cartridge and "the explosives discovered were of a sophisticated nature whereby they could not be detected by X-ray screening or trained sniffer dogs." The devices were to be triggered by cell phone alarms set to detonate while the planes were estimated to be over the Atlantic Ocean. Investigators believe the bombs were intended to destroy planes in flight, although it is unclear whether the perpetrators could have known whether they would be carried aboard passenger or freight aircraft. Both packages originated in Yemen and the organization al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is believed responsible.
2013 - Twin
bomb blasts explode near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding at least 264.
Quick facts all taken from various wikipedia articles as well as
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/planes/q0283.shtml and
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/u-s-terrorist-attacks-fast-facts/
