History of US bombings, failed attempts

 

History of US bombings, failed attempts

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Here is a list of some of the worst bombings in the U.S. dating to the

1800s, including some famous attempts that failed:

 

April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode in the packed streets near the finish line

of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring at least 130.

 

Jan. 17, 2011: A backpack bomb is placed along a Martin Luther King Day

parade route in Spokane, Wash., meant to kill and injure participants in a

civil rights march, but is found and disabled before it can explode. White

supremacist Kevin Harpham is convicted and sentenced to 32 years in federal

prison.

 

May 1, 2010: Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad leaves an explosives-laden

SUV in New York's Times Square, hoping to detonate it on a busy night.

Street vendors spot smoke coming from the vehicle and the bomb is disabled.

Shahzad is arrested as he tries to leave the country and is sentenced to

life in prison.

 

Dec. 25, 2009: The so-called "underwear bomber," Nigerian Umar Farouk

Abdulmutallab, is subdued by passengers and crew after trying to blow up an

airliner heading from Paris to Detroit using explosives hidden in his

undergarments. He's sentenced to life in prison.

 

Sept. 11, 2001: Four commercial jets are hijacked by 19 al-Qaida militants

and used as suicide bombs, bringing down the two towers of New York City's

World Trade Center and crashing into the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 people are

killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

 

Jan 22, 1998: Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to

being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without

parole. He's locked up in the federal Supermax prison in Colorado for

killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree

between 1978 and 1995.

 

Jan. 20, 1998: A bombing at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., kills

one guard and injures a nurse. Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected in the case.

 

July 27, 1996: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during

the Summer Games, killing two people and injuring more than 100. Eric Robert

Rudolph is arrested in 2003. He pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in

prison.

 

April 19, 1995: A car bomb parked outside the Murrah Federal Building in

Oklahoma City kills 168 people and injures more than 500. It is the

deadliest U.S. bombing in 75 years. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are

convicted. McVeigh is executed in 2001 and Nichols is sentenced to life in

prison.

 

Feb. 26, 1993: A bomb in a van explodes in the underground World Trade

Center garage in New York City, killing six people and injuring more than

1,000. Five extremists are eventually convicted.

 

Oct. 11, 1985: A bomb explodes at the Santa Ana, Calif. office of the

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, killing a director at the

organization and injuring several others. The case remains unsolved.

 

Nov. 7, 1983: A bomb blows a hole in a wall outside the Senate chamber at

the Capitol in Washington. No one is hurt. Two leftist radicals plead

guilty.

 

May 16, 1981: A bomb explodes in a men's bathroom at the Pan Am terminal at

New York's Kennedy Airport, killing a man. A group calling itself the Puerto

Rican Armed Resistance claims responsibility. No arrests are made.

 

Dec. 29, 1975: A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at the TWA terminal at New

York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Palestinian,

Puerto Rican and Croatian groups are suspected, but no arrests are made.

 

Jan. 29, 1975: The U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., is

bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is killed.

 

Jan. 24, 1975: A bomb goes off at historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City,

killing four people. It was one of 49 bombings attributed to the Puerto

Rican nationalist group FALN between 1974 and 1977 in New York.

 

Aug. 6, 1974: A bomb goes off at Los Angeles International Airport, killing

three people and injuring 36. Muharem Kurbegovic, a Yugoslavian national who

became known as the "Alphabet Bomber," is convicted.

 

Jan. 27, 1972: A bomb wrecks the New York City office of impresario Sol

Hurok, who had been booking Soviet artists. One person is killed and nine

are injured, Hurok among them. A caller claiming to represent Soviet Jews

claims responsibility, but no arrests are made.

 

March 1, 1971: The Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington,

D.C., is bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is

killed.

 

March 6, 1970: Three members of the Weather Underground accidentally blow

themselves up in their townhouse in New York City's Greenwich Village while

making bombs.

 

Sept. 16, 1963: Four black girls are killed in a bombing at Birmingham,

Ala.'s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Years later, juries convicted three

Ku Klux Klansmen and one suspected accomplice died without ever having been

charged. One of the four is still in prison and the others are dead.

 

1951-56: George Metesky, a former Consolidated Edison employee with a grudge

against the company, sets off a series of blasts at New York landmarks,

including Grand Central station and Radio City Music Hall. No one is killed.

Known as The Mad Bomber, Metesky spends 16 years in a mental hospital.

 

May 18, 1927: 45 people - 38 of them children - are killed when a school

district treasurer, Andrew Kehoe, lines the Bath Consolidated School near

Lansing, Mich., with hundreds of pounds of dynamite, and blows it up.

Investigators say Kehoe, who also died in the blast, thought he would lose

his farm because he couldn't pay property taxes used to build the school.

 

Sept. 16, 1920: A bomb explodes in New York City's Wall Street area, killing

40 and injuring hundreds. Authorities conclude it was the work of

"anarchists" and come up with a list of suspects, but all flee to Russia.

 

Oct. 1, 1910: The Los Angeles Times building is dynamited during a labor

dispute, killing 20 people. Two leaders of the ironworkers union plead

guilty.

 

May 4, 1886: A bomb blast during a labor rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square

kills 11 people, including seven police officers, and injures more than 100.

Eight "anarchists" are tried for inciting riot. Four are hanged, one commits

suicide and three win pardons after seven years in prison.

 

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