List of terrorist incidents, 1974
Encyclopedia
This is a timeline of incidents in 1974 that have been labelled as "terrorism
" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government
or its forces (see state terrorism
and state-sponsored terrorism
).
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|15
|Targeted shootings
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, IMa'alot,Israel
|26 people were killed and 66 wounded at Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel by Palestinian Liberation Army members.
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|3
|Suicide car Bombing
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Baquba, Iraq
| A security intelligence office was targeted by a suicide car bomber. One person was killed in the blast and fifteen people were injured, including ten shoolchildren whose bus was driving by when it was struck by the blast. Three of the injured were in a serious condition.
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|4
|IED
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Turbat
, Balochistan
, Pakistan
|A bus carrying children of paramilitary soldiers was attacked, resulting in fifteen children being injured, five of them seriously and the rest discharged from hospital on the same day. The bus was escorted by two military vehicles, though neither of those were hit. No one has claimed responsibility, though Balo nationalist groups were active in the area.
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|4
|Shooting
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| Islamabad
, Pakistan
|Salman Taseer, a high ranking member of the Pakistani's Prime Minister's party and governor of the Punjab province was shot and killed by his bodyguard as he stepped out of his car in Islamabad. It is believed he was assassinated for his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law.
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|5
|Attempted plane hijacking
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Oslo/
Istanbul
|A Turkish-speaking man wearing a mask demanded that the Turkish Airlines
flight return to Oslo and threatened to blow up the plane. On arrival in Istanbul police arrested the man.
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|5
|Bombs
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southern and eastern Afghanistan
|As Afghan National Army
begun Operation Omid leading supportive ISAF forces, the Defence Ministry announced two bombs killed three civilians, including a UN worker, and a soldier.
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|5
|Bombing and shooting
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Bamako
, Mali
|A suspected Al Qaeda militant tossed an explosive device at the French Embassay in Mali and the explosive device hit a sentry post. The suspect was injured and arrested by private security after one of them was shot and another received burns from the explosion.
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|7
|Suicide bombing
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| Spin Boldak
, Kandahar
, Afghanistan
|A suicide bomber attacked a public bathhouse, which Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the governor, said targeted a border police commander who was bathing at the time of the attack.
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|7
|Ambush shooting
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Lawdar
, Abyan, Yemen
|Reports said 15 suspected Al Qaeda gunmen ambushed army vehicles that were escorting a lorry with food supplies to an army base using rocket-propelled grenades.
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|7
|Shooting
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| near the Gaza
border, Israel
|Two armed men crossed the buffer zone
between the Gaza Strip before opening fire on soldiers.
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|8
|Rocket
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| near the Gaza
border, Israel
|A rocket fired from Gaza hit a farm near the border injuring two Thai agricultural workers. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
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|9
|Rockets
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| near the Gaza
border, Israel
|Three rockets fired from Gaza hit the Ashkelon
region.
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|10
|Ambush
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Kurdufan
, Sudan
|During the Southern Sudan independence referendum, 2011 fighters from the Misseriya ambushed 11 people on their way to vote.
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|14
|Car bomb
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Khasavyurt
, Dagestan
, Russia
|A car bomb explosion ripped through a cafe, with the blast killing and injuring both cafe workers and customers within the city of Khasavyurt, which is located within the volatile southern Russian republic of Dagestan.
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|17
|Bomb
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| Derry
, Northern Ireland
|A bomb exploded at Guildhall Square in the centre of Derry. No one was killed or injured in the blast and the bomb caused some damage to buildings in the area.
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|17
|Bombing attempted
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, May 15: Ma'alot massacre
at the Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel
by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
members: 26 of the hostages were killed, 66 wounded., May 17: Ulster Volunteer Force detonate three car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan
; 35 dead – killing 35 civilians
, the deadliest toll of any one day in Ireland
's 'Troubles
'., May 28: Eight people are killed and at least 90 wounded when a bomb placed in a rubbish bin explodes in the Piazza della Loggia bombing
., June 17: A group of terrorists from the Red Brigades
attack an office of Italian Social Movement
in Padua
, Italy
, killing two people. , June 17: The Weather Underground Organization planted a bomb in the lobby to protest Gulf Oil's actions in Angola, Vietnam, and elsewhere., June 17: The IRA
plant a bomb which explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London
, causing extensive damage and injuring eleven people., August 4: Italicus Express
train between Roma and Brennero explodes, killing twelve and injuring 44. Attributed to fascist group Ordine nero., August 30: Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
headquarters in Marunouchi
, Tokyo
. Eight killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities., September 8: TWA Flight 841
: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner. Attributed to Abu Nidal
and his terrorist organization., September 13: Basque group ETA
bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria
in Madrid and kills twelve people., October 5: Guildford pub bombing
by the IRA
leaves four off-duty soldiers and a civilian dead and 44 injured., October 22: A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in London
, injuring three people., November 7: Woolwich, London pub bombing see Wiki -article Kings Arms, Woolwich
, November 17: Three bombs exploded in three cities, Northampton
, Birmingham
and Coventry
, that caused the death of one person. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F15FB3F59137B93C7A8178AD95F408785F9, November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA
kills 21 people, injures 182., December 11: A bomb set off by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in East Harlem, New York
, permanently disables a police officer. The officer lost an eye as a result of this act.
Terrorism
Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...
" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
or its forces (see state terrorism
State terrorism
State terrorism may refer to acts of terrorism conducted by a state against a foreign state or people. It can also refer to acts of violence by a state against its own people.-Definition:...
and state-sponsored terrorism
State-sponsored terrorism
State-sponsored terrorism is a term used to describe terrorism sponsored by nation-states. As with terrorism, the precise definition, and the identification of particular examples, are subjects of heated political dispute...
).
January
| Date | Type | Location | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bombing | Strabane,Co.Tyrone, UK | Two Provisional IRA volunteers hijack a helicopter from Donegal in the Republic of Ireland and use it to drop bombs on a British Army Barracks in Strabane,Co.Tyrone. |
| 1 | Bombing |  SingaporeSingapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the... |
The Japanese Red Army JRA attacked a Royal Dutch Shell facility in Singapore and the simultaneous seizure of the Japanese embassy in Kuwait. |
February
| Date | Type | Location | Details | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Bombing | 1 | 0 | UK | Twelve people (9 soldiers and 3 civilians) were killed by the Provisional IRA in a bombing on a coach taking the soldiers home. |
April
| Date | Type | Location | Details | 11 | Massacre Massacre A massacre is an event with a heavy death toll.Massacre may also refer to:-Entertainment:*Massacre , a DC Comics villain*Massacre , a 1932 drama film starring Richard Barthelmess*Massacre, a 1956 Western starring Dane Clark... |
Israel Israel The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea... |
The Palestinian Liberation Front "PLO" shot dead 18 people in an apartment complex in Israel. |
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May
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!Date
!Type
!Location
!Details
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|15
|Targeted shootings
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, IMa'alot,Israel|26 people were killed and 66 wounded at Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel by Palestinian Liberation Army members.
|-
|3
|Suicide car Bombing
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Baquba, IraqIraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
| A security intelligence office was targeted by a suicide car bomber. One person was killed in the blast and fifteen people were injured, including ten shoolchildren whose bus was driving by when it was struck by the blast. Three of the injured were in a serious condition.
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|4
|IED
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TurbatTurbat
Turbat is a city located in southern Balochistan, a province of Pakistan. The town is the administrative center of Kech District and Turbat Tehsil, the town itself contains one Union council.-About:...
, Balochistan
Balochistan
Balochistan or Baluchistan is a region which covers parts of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. It can also refer to one of several modern and historical territories within that region:...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
|A bus carrying children of paramilitary soldiers was attacked, resulting in fifteen children being injured, five of them seriously and the rest discharged from hospital on the same day. The bus was escorted by two military vehicles, though neither of those were hit. No one has claimed responsibility, though Balo nationalist groups were active in the area.
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|4
|Shooting
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IslamabadIslamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
|Salman Taseer, a high ranking member of the Pakistani's Prime Minister's party and governor of the Punjab province was shot and killed by his bodyguard as he stepped out of his car in Islamabad. It is believed he was assassinated for his opposition to Pakistan's blasphemy law.
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|5
|Attempted plane hijacking
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Oslo/ Istanbul|A Turkish-speaking man wearing a mask demanded that the Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines
Turkish Airlines is the national flag carrier airline of Turkey, headquartered in the Turkish Airlines General Management Building on the grounds of Atatürk Airport in Yeşilköy, Bakirköy district, Istanbul...
flight return to Oslo and threatened to blow up the plane. On arrival in Istanbul police arrested the man.
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|5
|Bombs
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southern and eastern AfghanistanAfghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
|As Afghan National Army
Afghan National Army
The Afghan National Army is a service branch of the military of Afghanistan, which is currently trained by the coalition forces to ultimately take the role in land-based military operations in Afghanistan. , the Afghan National Army is divided into seven regional Corps. The strength of the Afghan...
begun Operation Omid leading supportive ISAF forces, the Defence Ministry announced two bombs killed three civilians, including a UN worker, and a soldier.
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|5
|Bombing and shooting
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BamakoBamako
Bamako is the capital of Mali and its largest city with a population of 1.8 million . Currently, it is estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa and sixth fastest in the world...
, Mali
Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...
|A suspected Al Qaeda militant tossed an explosive device at the French Embassay in Mali and the explosive device hit a sentry post. The suspect was injured and arrested by private security after one of them was shot and another received burns from the explosion.
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|7
|Suicide bombing
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|
Spin BoldakSpin Boldak
Spin Boldak or Spin Buldak is a border town in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan, right next to the Durand Line border with Pakistan. It is linked by a highway with the city of Kandahar to the north, and with Chaman and Quetta in Pakistan to the south. Spin Boldak has the second major...
, Kandahar
Kandahar
Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...
, Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
|A suicide bomber attacked a public bathhouse, which Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the governor, said targeted a border police commander who was bathing at the time of the attack.
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|7
|Ambush shooting
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LawdarLawdar
Lawdar is a town and seat of Lawdar District in south-western Yemen. It is located in the Abyan Governorate. It is served by Lawdar Airport.-History:...
, Abyan, Yemen
Yemen
The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east....
|Reports said 15 suspected Al Qaeda gunmen ambushed army vehicles that were escorting a lorry with food supplies to an army base using rocket-propelled grenades.
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|7
|Shooting
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near the GazaGaza
Gaza , also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 450,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories.Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC,...
border, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
|Two armed men crossed the buffer zone
Buffer zone
A buffer zone is generally a zonal area that lies between two or more other areas , but depending on the type of buffer zone, the reason for it may be to segregate regions or to conjoin them....
between the Gaza Strip before opening fire on soldiers.
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|8
|Rocket
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near the GazaGaza
Gaza , also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 450,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories.Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC,...
border, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
|A rocket fired from Gaza hit a farm near the border injuring two Thai agricultural workers. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
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|9
|Rockets
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near the GazaGaza
Gaza , also referred to as Gaza City, is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 450,000, making it the largest city in the Palestinian territories.Inhabited since at least the 15th century BC,...
border, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
|Three rockets fired from Gaza hit the Ashkelon
Ashkelon
Ashkelon is a coastal city in the South District of Israel on the Mediterranean coast, south of Tel Aviv, and north of the border with the Gaza Strip. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Neolithic Age...
region.
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|Ambush
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KurdufanKurdufan
Kurdufan , also spelled Kordofan, is a former province of central Sudan. In 1994 it was divided into three new federal states: North Kurdufan, South Kurdufan, and West Kurdufan...
, Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
|During the Southern Sudan independence referendum, 2011 fighters from the Misseriya ambushed 11 people on their way to vote.
|-
|14
|Car bomb
Car bomb
A car bomb, or truck bomb also known as a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device , is an improvised explosive device placed in a car or other vehicle and then detonated. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination, terrorism, or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupants of the vehicle,...
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KhasavyurtKhasavyurt
Khasavyurt is a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Population: It was founded in 1846 and granted town status in 1931. The main local industries are food processing, brick making and garment making....
, Dagestan
Dagestan
The Republic of Dagestan is a federal subject of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region. Its capital and the largest city is Makhachkala, located at the center of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
|A car bomb explosion ripped through a cafe, with the blast killing and injuring both cafe workers and customers within the city of Khasavyurt, which is located within the volatile southern Russian republic of Dagestan.
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|17
|Bomb
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| Derry
Derry
Derry or Londonderry is the second-biggest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-biggest city on the island of Ireland. The name Derry is an anglicisation of the Irish name Doire or Doire Cholmcille meaning "oak-wood of Colmcille"...
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
|A bomb exploded at Guildhall Square in the centre of Derry. No one was killed or injured in the blast and the bomb caused some damage to buildings in the area.
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|17
|Bombing attempted
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, May 15: Ma'alot massacre
Ma'alot massacre
The Ma'alot massacre was a terrorist attack which included a two-day hostage-taking of 115 people which ended in the deaths of over 25 hostages. It began when three armed Palestinian terrorists of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine entered Israel from Lebanon...
at the Ma'alot High School in Northern Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Palestinian Marxist-Leninist organisation founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization , the largest being Fatah...
members: 26 of the hostages were killed, 66 wounded., May 17: Ulster Volunteer Force detonate three car bombs in Dublin and one in Monaghan
Monaghan
Monaghan is the county town of County Monaghan in Ireland. Its population at the 2006 census stood at 7,811 . The town is located on the main road, the N2 road, from Dublin north to both Derry and Letterkenny.-Toponym:...
; 35 dead – killing 35 civilians
Dublin and Monaghan Bombings
The Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17 May 1974 were a series of car bombings in Dublin and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The attacks killed 33 civilians and wounded almost 300 – the highest number of casualties in any single day during the conflict known as The Troubles.A loyalist...
, the deadliest toll of any one day in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
's 'Troubles
The Troubles
The Troubles was a period of ethno-political conflict in Northern Ireland which spilled over at various times into England, the Republic of Ireland, and mainland Europe. The duration of the Troubles is conventionally dated from the late 1960s and considered by many to have ended with the Belfast...
'., May 28: Eight people are killed and at least 90 wounded when a bomb placed in a rubbish bin explodes in the Piazza della Loggia bombing
Piazza della Loggia bombing
The Piazza della Loggia bombing was a bombing that took place on the morning of 28 May 1974, in Brescia, Italy during an anti-fascist protest which killed eight people and wounded over 90...
., June 17: A group of terrorists from the Red Brigades
Red Brigades
The Red Brigades was a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organisation, based in Italy, which was responsible for numerous violent incidents, assassinations, and robberies during the so-called "Years of Lead"...
attack an office of Italian Social Movement
Italian Social Movement
The Italian Social Movement , and later the Italian Social Movement–National Right , was a neo-fascist and post-fascist political party in Italy. Formed in 1946 by supporters of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the party became the fourth largest party in Italy by the early 1960s...
in Padua
Padua
Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, killing two people. , June 17: The Weather Underground Organization planted a bomb in the lobby to protest Gulf Oil's actions in Angola, Vietnam, and elsewhere., June 17: The IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
plant a bomb which explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, causing extensive damage and injuring eleven people., August 4: Italicus Express
Italicus Express
The Italicus Express massacre was a terrorist bombing in Italy on a train of the Ferrovie dello Stato . During the early hours of 4 August 1974, the bomb attack killed 12 people and wounded 48...
train between Roma and Brennero explodes, killing twelve and injuring 44. Attributed to fascist group Ordine nero., August 30: Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
, or MHI, is a Japanese company. It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi Group.-History:In 1870 Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi took a lease of Government-owned Nagasaki Shipyard. He named it Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works, and started the shipbuilding business on a full scale...
headquarters in Marunouchi
Marunouchi
Marunouchi is a commercial district of Tokyo located in Chiyoda between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace. The name, meaning "inside the circle", derives from its location within the palace's outer moat...
, Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
. Eight killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities., September 8: TWA Flight 841
TWA Flight 841 (1974)
On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B operating as TWA Flight 841 took off from Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv en route to JFK International Airport, New York City. It was scheduled to land in Athens, followed by Rome, and then proceed to New York. After stopping for 68 minutes in...
: Bomb kills 88 on jetliner. Attributed to Abu Nidal
Abu Nidal
Abu Nidal , born Sabri Khalil al-Banna , was the founder of Fatah–The Revolutionary Council , a militant Palestinian group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization...
and his terrorist organization., September 13: Basque group ETA
ETA
ETA , an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization. The group was founded in 1959 and has since evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group with the goal of gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country...
bombs the "Rolando" cafeteria
Cafetería Rolando bombing
The Cafetería Rolando bombing was an attack on the Rolando cafe in Calle del Correo, Madrid, Spain which killed 13 people and wounded 71. Though no claim of responsibility was made, the attack is widely believed to have been carried out by the armed Basque separatist group ETA.-Background:The...
in Madrid and kills twelve people., October 5: Guildford pub bombing
Guildford pub bombing
The Guildford pub bombings occurred on 5 October 1974. The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated two 6-pound gelignite bombs at two pubs in Guildford, England. The pubs were targeted because they were popular with British Army personnel...
by the IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
leaves four off-duty soldiers and a civilian dead and 44 injured., October 22: A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA explodes in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, injuring three people., November 7: Woolwich, London pub bombing see Wiki -article Kings Arms, Woolwich
Kings Arms, Woolwich
The Kings Arms is a public house in Woolwich, London that was bombed in 1974 and is now a landmark on the route of the London Marathon.Standing at 1 Frances Street by Woolwich Dockyard, it was built in the nineteenth century...
, November 17: Three bombs exploded in three cities, Northampton
Northampton
Northampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. Situated about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, Northampton lies on the River Nene and is the county town of Northamptonshire. The demonym of Northampton is...
, Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
and Coventry
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...
, that caused the death of one person. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F15FB3F59137B93C7A8178AD95F408785F9, November 21: Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...
kills 21 people, injures 182., December 11: A bomb set off by the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in East Harlem, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, permanently disables a police officer. The officer lost an eye as a result of this act.