1988 ⟶ Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Over Lockerbie
December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 is destroyed by a bomb and fa...
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✈️ Soviet Downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007
September 1: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a scheduled flight from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska, is shot down by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor, resulting in 269 fatalities and no survivors. This leads to the declassification of GPS development.⟶
Cold WarAviation DisasterInternational RelationsSoviet UnionEspionageMilitary Technology
Soviet Union
South Korea
United States✈️ Pan Am Flight 103 Bombing Over Lockerbie
December 21: Pan Am Flight 103 is destroyed by a bomb and falls over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 people on-board, leaving no survivors, and 11 in town.⟶
TerrorismAviation DisasterBombingCold WarInternational RelationsAviation Safety
United KingdomUnited States
Libya💥 Oklahoma City Bombing
April 19: American terrorist Timothy McVeigh bombs the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.⟶
TerrorismDomestic TerrorismBombing
United States💥 Omagh Bombing
TerrorismNorthern IrelandThe TroublesBombingIRACivil UnrestPolitical Violence
United Kingdom💥 Bali Bombings Kill Hundreds
October 12: The 2002 Bali bombings killed 202 people and injured 209 more.⟶
TerrorismIslamist ExtremismAl-QaedaWar on TerrorInternational RelationsSecurityCivilian Casualties
Indonesia
AustraliaUnited KingdomUnited States💥 Manchester Arena Terrorist Bombing
May 22: A terrorist bombing attack at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England kills 22 people and injures over 140.⟶
TerrorismIslamist ExtremismISISBombingCasualtiesSecurityAtrocity
United Kingdom