2013 Event A training exercise emergency causes two U.S. marine harrier jets to drop several hundred unarmed bombs on the Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage site 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 Two suspected Al-Quaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb members are arrested in Tunisia for carrying bombs and explosives near the city of Ramada 2010 Event The U.S. launches a search for the people behind an attempt to mail bombs to synagogues and places of worship in Chicago, Illinois 2002 Event Nearly 200 tourists murdered by Islamist terrorist bombs in Bali 1999 Event During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China 1994 Event Turkish air force bombs Kurds, struggle in Iraq, 70 killed 1994 Event Angolan plane bombs school in Waku Kungo (89 killed) 1994 Event North-Yemen air force bombs Aden South Yemen 1994 Event Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed 1994 Event Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed 1993 Event Angolese air force bombs Huambo 1993 Event Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome/Milan/Vatican City, 5 killed 1993 Event Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6 1993 Death Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi), dies at 78 1992 Event Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3 1991 Event U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 1989 Event Mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogota, kills 52 1989 Event 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test 1986 Event French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad 1984 Event IRA bombs hotel where Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die 1982 Event Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks 1982 Event FALN (Puerto Rico Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street 1979 Event 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs) 1972 Event U.S. bombs Haiphong North Vietnam 1972 Event U.S. bombs Haiphong, North-Vietnam; 1000s killed 1969 Event U.S. B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary 1968 Event U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs 1967 Event U.S. bombs Hanoi 1966 Event U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam 1966 Event U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities 1958 Event Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes 1957 Event Cuban dictator Batista bombs Cienfuegos uprising 1950 Event U.S. Mustangs accidentally bombs British on Hill 282 Korea, 17 killed 1948 Event Israel bombs Cairo 1948 Event Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki 1946 Event Menachem Begins opposition group bombs King David Hotel 1945 Event U.S. drops fire bombs on Tokyo 1945 Event 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 Event Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360 1945 Event U.S. B-17's bombs range at Luneburg 1945 Event 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa 1945 Event 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs 1945 Event Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands 1945 Event 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 Event 8th Air Force bombs Dresden 1945 Event 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz 1945 Event Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin 1944 Event RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed 1944 Event Admiral Halsey's Task Force 30 bombs Okinawa, 700 die 1944 Event Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen 1944 Event RAF bombs West Kapelse 1944 Event Luftwaffe bombs Eindhoven: 200 killed 1944 Event British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs 1944 Event 300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions 1944 Event U.S. 9th AF bombs railroad at Chaulnes Sable-sur-Sarthe/Dreux 1944 Event Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France 1944 Event 2500+ killed in London and South East England by German flying bombs 1944 Event U.S. bombs Kyushu Japan 1944 Event RAF bombs Munich 1944 Event RAF bombs census bureau in The Hague 1944 Event U.S. 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die 1944 Event RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin 1943 Event U.S. bombs Rabaul, New Britain 1943 Event 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) 1943 Event USAF bombs Germans in Troina 1943 Event RAF bombs Hamburg 1943 Event RAF bombs Fokker airplane factory in Amsterdam 1943 Event RAF bombs Hamburg (20,000 dead) 1943 Event RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde 1943 Event RAF bombs Mohne and Eder (Battle of Ruhr) 1943 Event U.S. errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326 1943 Event RAF bombs Essen Germany 1942 Event RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die) 1942 Event Japan bombs Port Darwin, Australia 1942 Event Luftwaffe bombs Stalingrad 1942 Event RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf 1942 Event Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon 1942 Event 1st US/8th Air Force bombs Europe 1942 Event Resistance bombs Rotterdam railway 1942 Event RAF bombs Hamburg 1942 Event U.S. bombs Celebes and Timor 1942 Event Luftwaffe bombs Canterbury 1942 Event Luftwaffe bombs Exeter 1942 Event Luftwaffe bombs Bath 1942 Event Luftwaffe bombs Bath 1942 Event Luftwaffe bombs Exeter 1942 Event Luftwaffe bombs Exeter 1942 Event James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities 1942 Event 12 Lancasters bombs MAN-factory in Augsburg 1941 Event Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city" 1941 Event Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division 1940 Event Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II) 1940 Event RAF bombs Munich 1940 Event Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton 1940 Event Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire-factory in Southampton 1940 Event Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company 1940 Event Luftwaffe bombs London 1940 Event Luftwaffe bombs British radar stations, loses 31 aircrafts 1940 Event RAF bombs Germany 1940 Event Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance 1940 Event Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany 1939 Event U.S.S.R. invades Finland, bombs Helsinki 1939 Event German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs 1939 Event RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen 1933 Event Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship 1926 Event French air force bombs Damascus, Syria 1925 Event French General Sarrail bombs Damascus 1918 Event Paris bombs "Thick Bertha's Dike" (nickname for the widow Krupp) 1917 Event Germany bombs London 1915 Event Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea 1914 Event German plane drops bombs on Dover England 1914 Event Dardanellen (French and English) fleet bombs Turkish forts 1914 Event 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed 1914 Event 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau 1914 Event German fleet bombs English coast 1914 Event Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs 1914 Event German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed 1914 Event Austrian-Hungary bombs Belgrade 1898 Event Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan 1882 Event British fleet bombs Alexandria 1865 Event Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC 1861 Event Federal fleet bombs Galveston, Texas 1830 Event Major-General Baron D Chasse bombs Antwerp (Belgium revolution) 1816 Event Lord Exmouth bombs Algiers, a refuge for Barbary pirates 1596 Event Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java
