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Wall Street Bombing
TNT bomb planted in unattended wagon exploded on Wall Street, killing 35 people and injuring hundreds more. Bolshevist or anarchist terrorists were blamed, but the crime was never solved. -
The Sunday Bomber
An unknown bomber planted and detonated several bombs on New York public transit through October and November of 1960 on holidays, injuring dozens and killing 15-year-old Sandra Breland. -
Sterling Hall Bombing
Four anti-war activists detonated a van loaded with high explosives outside of Sterling Hall at the Univeristy of Wisconsin campus in Madison. -
1983 US Embassy Bombing
U.S. embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; 63 dead, including 17 Americans. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. -
Lockerbie Bombing
a suitcase bomb exploded aboard New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103, killing all 259 passengers and crewmembers, along with 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland. -
World Trade Center Bombing
A truck bomb driven by a member of Al-Qaeda exploded in the basement of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, shattering six underground floors, injuring more than one thousand, and killing six. The conspirators were convicted in the following year, but their financier, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, would go on to perpetrate the second set of attacks on the World Trade Center. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols placed a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and detonated it, ruining the structure and damaging hundreds of adjacent buildings. The attack killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of six, and injured another 680. Both men were convicted. -
Khobar Bombings
truck bomb exploded outside Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds of others. -
September 11 attacks
Nineteen al Qaeda members hijack four U.S. passenger airliners. Two are flown into the Twin Towers in New York, one crashes into the Pentagon and another crashes into a empty field in Pennlvania, Because passengers re-hiljacked it to prevent an attack on the White House or US Capitol. Almost 3,000 people dided that die -
San Diego Courthouse Bombing
A bomb composed of multiple pipes and shrapnel detonated in the early morning and wrecked the entryway and foyer of the Edward J. Schwartz U.S. -
Operation Neptune Spear
Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1:00 am. by Seal Team Six. -
Boston Marathon Bombing
At least three were killed and over 170 injured when two bombs sent shrapnel into the crowd and runners' paths during the Boston Marathon. Pieces of metal flew out at leg level, leading to a number of severe leg injuries. Medical crews acted quickly, limiting the extent of the fatalities. -
ISIS Beheadings
Members of ISIS behead American journalist James Foley, 40, in apparent retaliation for U.S. airstrikes against the group. Foley, who worked for GlobalPost, went missing in Syria in November 2012. An ISIS militant beheads another American journalist, Steven Sotloff, who worked for Time. He was abducted in 2013 in Syria.
