2015 Event Construction workers discover an unexploded bomb from World War II near Wembley Stadium in London; after evacuations near the site, explosives specialists safely defused and removed the threat 2013 Event Authorities at Los Angeles International Airport investigate the explosion of the second dry ice bomb in two days on the premises; no one was injured and no arrests were made 2011 Event During the 40th anniversary of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, a bomb kills one person and clashes break out between security and opposition protesters 2011 Event In Koblenz, Germany, 45,000 citizens wait to return home after bomb squads diffuse World War II bombs that were hidden under the Rhine River for nearly 65 years 2011 Event U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls on Iran to respond to the IAEA report stating Iran is working on nuclear bomb technology 2011 Event A World War II-era bomb is discovered in the German city of Halle; 12,000 people are evacuated 2011 Event An extremist explodes a car bomb in Oslo, Norway, killing at least seven people; he then opens fire at a Labour Party youth camp in Utoya, Norway, killing 84 2011 Event A German naval mine from World War II is discovered and dismantled by BP; removing the bomb avoided potential closure of 16 oil fields 2010 Event At least 40 people are killed by a bomb blast at a solidarity rally with the Palestinian people in Quetta, Pakistan 2010 Event Kurdish rebels claim responsibility for a bus bomb in Istanbul, Turkey; five people were killed and twelve people injured 2010 Event A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City's Times Square 2010 Event A series of bomb explosions in Baghdad, near Shia mosques, kill dozens of people and wound 100 others 2010 Event A suicide bomb attack in Geresh, Helmand Province, Afganistan kills ten people and injures 7 2010 Event Six people are killed by a remotely operated bomb while travelling in southern Afghanistan in Tirin Kot, the capital of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province 2010 Event A car bomb explodes in a courthouse located in Newry, Northern Ireland. The area's last incidence of a car bombing was in the year 2000 2009 Event A bomb explodes outside of Athens' stock exchange, damaging the building and a female passer-by 2007 Event Benazir Bhutto is assassinated by a bomb blast in Rawalpindi, Pakistan 2006 Event 17 Islamic men are arrested in a plot to bomb targets in Toronto 1997 Event Bomb in Algiers kills 21 and wounds 40 1997 Death William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert, dies at 79 1996 Event Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured 1996 Death Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus), dies at 78 1996 Death Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert, dies at 87 1995 Event Thousands of people in Hiroshima tribute on 50th anniversary of bomb 1995 Event Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B. Murray 1995 Event Truck bomb at Federal Building in Oklahoma City, kills 168 1995 Event Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed 1995 Event Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed) 1995 Event Bomb attack on train in Assam India (27 soldiers killed) 1995 Event Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured 1995 Event Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed 1995 Death Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone 1994 Event Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City 1994 Event Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed 1994 Event Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22 1994 Event Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon, Panama, 21 killed 1994 Event Bomb attack on Jewish center AMIA in Buenos Aires, 86 killed 1994 Event Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran, 70 killed 1994 Event Bomb attack on taxi stand in Johannesburg, 10 killed 1994 Event Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed 1993 Event Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead 1993 Event IRA bomb attack on fish and chips restaurant in Belfast, 10 killed 1993 Event Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans 1993 Event Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die) 1993 Event 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1 1993 Event 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta 1993 Event 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay 1991 Event Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party - Assistant Secretary of state 1991 Death Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India, killed by bomb at 46 1988 Event Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany - 5,000 evacuated 1988 Event Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border 1988 Event Bomb attack on office of South Africa Council of Churches 1987 Event 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes 1987 Event ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed 1987 Death Rashid Karame, 10 time premier of Lebanon, dies in bomb attack at 65 1987 Event Sri Lanka Air Force bomb Tamil, 100s killed 1987 Event Tamil bomb attack in Colombo Sri Lanka, 115 killed 1987 Event Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City 1986 Event Bomb attack in Paris, 6 killed 1986 Event Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead 1986 Event Bomb attack in Paris, 2 killed 1986 Event Bomb explosion on airport Kimpo at Seoul, 5 killed 1986 Event Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran 1986 Event Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed 1986 Event Bomb attack in East Beirut, 25 killed 1986 Event ETA bomb attacks Madrid killing 5 1986 Event 4 U.S. passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece 1986 Event Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed 1985 Event Computer store owner in Sacramento California killed by package bomb 1985 Event Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die 1985 Event Philadelphia Police bomb a house held by group "Move," kills 11 1985 Event Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India 1985 Event "Communist" bomb attack kills 2 firemen in Brussels 1985 Event Bomb attacks in NATO/AEG-Telefunken building in Brussels 1985 Event Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java 1984 Event Suicide car bomb attacks U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23 1984 Event Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed 1984 Event Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua 1983 Event Bomb attack on Harrod's war house in London, 5 killed, 94 injured 1983 Event A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait 1983 Event A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis 1983 Event 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut 1983 Event Bomb explodes in U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries 1983 Event Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed 1983 Event Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 241 U.S. personnel in Beirut 1983 Event 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France 1982 Event Bomb attack on Londonderry, North Ireland disco, 17 killed 1982 Event 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland 1982 Event Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700 1982 Death Bashir Gemayel, falangist Lebanon's president-elect, killed by a bomb 1982 Death Ruth Voorst, South African (A World Apart), killed by letter bomb 1982 Event IRA bomb attacks in London 1982 Event BBC warns Britain will bomb Argentina 1981 Event Bomb attack on Antwerp Belgium synagogue, 1 dead, 80 injured 1981 Death Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Death Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, assassinated by a bomb 1981 Event Bomb attack on headquarters of Islamic Party in Teheran, 72 killed 1980 Event Bomb attack on Octoberfest in Munich, 12 killed 1980 Event Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed 1979 Event IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market 1979 Event 18 British militia die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland 1979 Death Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb 1979 Death Ali Hassan Salameh, Abu Hassan, killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes 1978 Event Aerosmith's Steve Tyler and Joe Perry injured by a cherry bomb 1978 Event Bomb attack in Beirut, 175 killed 1978 Event Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado 1978 Event Brittany separatists bomb Palace of Versailles in France 1978 Event President Carter defers production of neutron bomb 1978 Event 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb 1978 Event Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb 1977 Event Washington Post reports U.S. has developed neutron bomb 1977 Event Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro 1976 Event Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack 1975 Event 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York City 1975 Death Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by car bomb in Paris 1975 Event Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station 1974 Event Italians fascist bomb demonstrators in Brescia, 6 killed 1971 Event Bomb attack on the Capitol in Washington D.C. 1970 Event Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison 1970 Event SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St. in New York City 1969 Event Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed 1968 Event U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland 1967 Birthday Tim Simenson, rocker, Bomb the Bass 1967 Event 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes 1967 Event U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War 1967 Death Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62 1966 Event 175 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam 1966 Event 173 U.S. airplanes bomb North-Vietnam 1966 Event 300 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam 1966 Birthday Yahya Ayyash, born in Palestine, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis 1966 Event An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin 1965 Event Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam 1965 Event 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes 1964 Event Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis 1963 Event Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama 1963 Event Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb 1961 Event Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb 1960 Event Jordan premier Hazza-el-Madjali deadly injured at bomb attack 1960 Event 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria 1959 Event Contra revolutionaries bomb Havana 1959 Event 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania 1958 Event French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die 1957 Event Britain becomes the 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb 1956 Event U.S.S.R. sends tanks into Hungary and threatens to bomb Budapest 1956 Event Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal 1956 Event U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll 1956 Event Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll 1955 Event Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado 1954 Event U.S. explodes 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll 1953 Event Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres 1953 Event U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st hydrogen bomb 1953 Event Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation 1953 Event Soviet Union conducts secret test of its 1st hydrogen bomb 1953 Event Russia's Georgi Malenkov reports possession of hydrogen bomb 1953 Event American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches 1953 Event President Truman announces development of hydrogen bomb 1952 Event 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands 1952 Event Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion) 1952 Event U.S. airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu, Korea 1952 Event Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb 1951 Death Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb 1951 Event Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb 1951 Event U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea 1951 Event 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll 1950 Event U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb 1950 Event Marshall Voroshilov of U.S.S.R. announces they developed atomic bomb 1950 Event Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb 1950 Event President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb 1949 Event U.S.S.R. explodes its 1st atomic bomb 1949 Event U.S.S.R. explodes their 1st atom bomb 1949 Event Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem 1948 Event 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo 1948 Event Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died 1948 Event Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die 1946 Event U.S. drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion) 1945 Event Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada 1945 Event U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki 1945 Event Hiroshima Peace Day-atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima by "Enola Gay" 1945 Event Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) 1945 Event After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine 1945 Event U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb 1945 Event 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico 1945 Event Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb 1945 Event 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico 1945 Event 2 U.S. P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu 1945 Event Last German V-2 (buzz bomb) attack on London 1945 Event Largest operation in Pacific war, 1,500 U.S. Navy ships bomb Okinawa 1945 Event Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra 1945 Event RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm 1945 Event 334 U.S. B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb 1945 Event Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die 1944 Event Allies bomb sea wall at Veere 1944 Event Allied air force bomb Germany for 6 hours 1944 Death Lesley J McNair, U.S. Lieutenant-General, killed by U.S. bomb at St-Lo 1944 Death Korten, chef General of Germany Luftwaffe, dies in bomb explosion 1944 Event 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany 1944 Event 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity 1944 Event Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb 1944 Event 140 Lancasters bomb airplane manufacturer in Toulouse 1944 Event Bomb assassination against Southern Tirol congregation in Rome, 33 die 1943 Event Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter 1943 Event 150 U.S. Marauders bomb Schiphol 1943 Event Sicily: 3 U.S. A-36's bomb British headquarter 1943 Event Allies bomb Mortsel 1943 Event Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die 1943 Event 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin 1942 Event 1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemunde, Germany 1942 Birthday Robbe de Deer, Flemish director/producer, Fugitive Cinema, Bomb 1942 Event British and U.S. bomb Le Havre and Bremen 1942 Event Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die) 1942 Event British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II) 1942 Event 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II 1942 Event German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb 1941 Event Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev 1941 Death Marx Dormoy, French socialist, killed by a time bomb 1941 Event Vichy-French planes bomb Tel Aviv, killing 20 Jews 1941 Event Begin oper Bestrafung-Germany bomb attacks Belgrade (17,000 die) 1940 Event German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; 100s die 1940 Event 38 Italians Fiat bombers bomb Luc-and-Province 1940 Event British bomb factory at Breda 1939 Event Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb 1939 Event 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden 1937 Event German battleships bomb Almeria, Spain 1928 Event Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die 1920 Event Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30 1917 Event British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades 1917 Birthday William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert 1916 Event A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco killing 10 1914 Event German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die 1909 Birthday William G Penney, British physicist, 1st British Atom Bomb 1908 Birthday Geoffrey Hodges, bomb disposal expert 1905 Birthday Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1904 Death Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies 1903 Birthday Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, 1st Rus nuclear bomb 1902 Birthday Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963 1887 Birthday Karl Taylor Compton, physicist/atomic bomb scientist 1886 Event Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen 1863 Event Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia 1713 Event French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao
