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President William McKinley assassinated by Michigan-born, Russian-Polish anarchist, Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New York.
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Adana Massacre
Adana Massacre occurred after Ottoman military elements joined Islamic theological students and plotted to regain control of the country to the Sultan and Islamic Law. Riots and violence broke out and, while the movement was initially targeting the Young Turk government, it spilled over to the pogroms against the Armenians. As the Ottoman Army troops came in to regain control of the situation, they began to perpetrate violence against the Armenian enclaves in the Adana province, killing 15,000-3 -
Assassination of Archduke
Assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife, precipitating World War I -
Black Tom Explosion
The Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New Jersey, was an act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents to prevent the materiel from being used by the Allies in World War I. -
Wall Street Bombing
The Wall Street Bombing, occurring at 12:01 p.m., killed 38 people and wounded 300 others in the Financial District of New York City. Although the bombing was never solved, investigators and historians think bombing was likely carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. The attack, causing more fatalities than the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910, was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles and anti-c -
"Black Wall Street"
For three days, a well-armed white mob used private airplanes to drop dynamite and firebombs over the prosperous Tulsa, Oklahoma black neighborhood of Greenwood, deemed the "black Wall Street," burning 36 square blocks and killing an estimate of 300 to 3,000 African Americans. The victims were buried in mass graves or dumped in the Arkansas River. -
Arabian Massacre
In escalation of fighting, Arabs massacre almost all the Jews living in Hebron. The Jews complain to the British, but the British blame the unrest on Jewish immigration and land purchases. -
Christian Front Shut down
The Christian Front is shut down by the FBI after it was discovered that they were arming themselves in a plot to murder "Jews, communist, and 'a dozen congressmen'" in order to establish a government modeled after Nazi Germany. -
Clarence Cull
Clarence Cull is arrested and charged with attempting to assassinate President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a suicide bombing. -
Assass. of Moyne
Britain's colonial secretary in the Mandate Lord Moyne is assassinated by the militantly Zionist LEHI organization (formerly called the Stern Gang). -
Arab League
The Arab League is formed when Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Yemen join together, proclaiming their intent to defend Palestine -
Invasion of Israel
The Arab-Israeli War: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invade Israel. -
Sinai Campaign Terrorism
During the Sinai Campaign, a large group of terrorists enter Israel, and the security of Israeli ports is threatened. Meanwhile, Yasar Arafat, of Egypt, founds Al Fatah, an underground terrorist organization, and the Arab-Israeli War continues. -
Lebanon Bombing
Three people were killed in a bomb blast Beirut, Lebanon. The bombing also injured 10 more and on the day that United Nations General Assembly was pondering ways to end violence in the Middle East. -
Vietnam War
Vietnam War begins (escalated U.S. involvement from 1965-1969). -
First Hi-jacking of US Aircraft
The first U.S. aircraft was hijacked when Puerto Rican Antuilo Ramierez Ortiz, at gunpoint, forced a National Airlines plane to fly him to Havana, Cuba, where he was given asylum. -
JFK Assassination
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Robert Kennedy Assassinated
U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian who was reportedly motivated by Kennedy's pro-Israel positions. -
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Desert Storm air offensive begins after Saddam Hussein refuses to remove troops from Kuwait. Over the next month, ground troops from the U.S., France, and U.K. drive Iraqi soldiers back out of Kuwait. -
9/11
Now known as 9/11, four planes—American Airlines flight 11, United Airlines flight 175, United Airlines flight 93, and American Airlines flight 77—are hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center North and South towers in New York, a field in Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon, respectively. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, including the 19 hijackers, and thousands more injured. Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda, takes responsibility. -
Boston Marathon
Boston, United States: Two bombs detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed 3 people and injured more than 180. Dzhokar Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev were identified as the main suspects. The two brothers are also suspected of the fatal shooting of a police officer in Cambridge. The brothers are believed to have ties to Russian extremist groups.