List of assassinations and acts of terrorism against Americans

This article is a list of assassinations and acts of terrorism against Americans.

19th century

1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, editor of an abolitionist newspaper, the "Alton Observer", killed by a mob of pro-slavery advocates.
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, is shot and killed in the Ford Theater by John Wilkes Booth.
1881 - James A. Garfield, 20th US President, is shot and killed in Washington by Charles J. Guiteau
1890 - David Hennessy, Police Chief of New Orleans is shot, allegedly by the Mafia.

20th century

1900s

1901 - William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, is assassinated in Buffalo, New York by Leon Czolgosz.

1910s

1910 - The Los Angeles Times bombing by union activists kills 21 and injures some 100.
1912 - Former US President Theodore Roosevelt, who was campaigning to return to office, is shot by John Flammang Schrank weeks before the 1912 presidential election. Roosevelt is seriously injured but survives.
1915 - RMS Lusitania is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-20 off Ireland. 128 US nationals killed.
1919 - The 1919 United States anarchist bombings, carried out by anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani, failed to kill any of their intended targets.

1920s

1920 - The Wall Street bombing kill 28 and seriously injures 143.
1927 - The Bath School disaster in Bath Township, Michigan killed 45 and wounded 58, mostly children. The perpetrator, Andrew Kehoe, blew himself up.

1930s

1933 - Giuseppe Zangara kills Chicago mayor Anton Cermak while attempting to assassinate President-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Miami.
1937 - Theodore Marriner Consul General to Syria assassinated in Beirut.

1950s

1950 - Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo, members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party fail to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at Blair House in Washington, D.C. on November 1, 1950.
1954 - United States Capitol shooting incident on March 1. Four Puerto Rican nationalists, led by Lolita Lebrón shoot and injure five members of the United States House of Representatives during an immigration debate.

1960s

1963 - 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, committed by the Ku Klux Klan. Four African-American girls are killed on Sunday morning.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald, in turn, was killed on November 24, 1963 by Jack Ruby.
1968 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights advocate, is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4.
1968 - Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan.

1970s

1970 - The first mass aircraft hijackings occurred in 1970, the so-called Dawson's Field hijackings, when the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine seized control of two American planes and one Swiss airliner, all bound from Europe to the United States, to punish the United States for supporting Israel. The Pan Am, TWA and Swissair planes were blown up on the ground in Jordan and Egypt.
1975 - The Puerto Rican nationalist FALN bombs Fraunces Tavern in New York City on January 24, killing four and injuring more than 50.
1975 - Central Intelligence Agency's Athens station chief was shot by Revolutionary Organization 17 November. The group has committed further assassinations, often using a .45 calibre handgun, and around fifty other attacks. Initial attacks were aimed at American and Greek officials but the range of operations was expanded in the 1980s and 1990s to include bombings and European Union targets.
1979 - U.S. embassy burning in Islamabad - embassy was attacked by mob because a radio report mistakenly blamed the US for the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca; actions that were carried out by a radical Islamic faction Grand Mosque Seizure. Two Americans and two Pakistani members of the embassy staff were killed.
1979 - U.S. embassy in Tripoli also burned due to the mistaken information about the Grand Mosque Seizure.
1979 - Terrorist group attacked a bus of unarmed navy sailors in Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico killing two and wounded another 17.

1980s

1981 - Retired General James Dozier was kidnapped by the leftist Italian Red Brigades Marxist terrorist group.
1983 - April 18 - The Bombing at United States Embassy in Beirut. 63 people, including 17 Americans, are killed.
1983 - October 23 - The Beirut barracks bombing. 305 people, including 241 US servicemen, are killed by 2 suicide bombers.
1983 - November 7 - The Armed Resistance Unit, a militant leftist group, bombs the U.S. Capitol in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
1984 - Twenty-two people were killed (two of them American) and seventy were wounded when a van loaded with four hundred pounds of explosives exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy annex in Awkar, Lebanon. Islamic Jihad (code name of Hezbollah) claimed responsibility for the bombing in a call to the media.
1985 - June 14 - TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver is killed by Hezbollah.
1985 - August 8 - US Army Specialist Edward Pimental was murdered by members of the Red Army Faction. His military identification card was later used to gain access to Rhein-Main Air Base to plant a car bomb.
1985 - August 9 - The car bomb planted at Rhein-Main Air Base exploded, killing two and wounding eleven.
1985 - October 7 - Achille Lauro hijacking, Leon Klinghoffer, a wheel-chair bound American killed by Palestinian militants.
1985 - October 11 - Alex Odeh assassinated in a bombing as he opened the door of his office at 1905 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, California. Odeh was west-coast regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). The FBI charged Robert Manning, a member of the JDL, with the murder. Manning fled to Israel, but was later extradited for a different murder, tried and sentenced to 30 years. Odeh's murder remains technically unsolved.
1985 - November 25 - A car bomb exploded outside of the Post Exchange complex in Frankfurt, Germany, wounding 34^[1]
1986 - April 2 - Four Americans were killed and five Americans were injured when a bomb exploded aboard TWA Flight 840 as it traveled from Rome to Athens. The aircraft was able to land safely at Athens International Airport.
1986 - April 6 - A Berlin discotheque bombing killed a Turkish woman and 2 US servicemen and injured 230 people, including more than 50 American servicemen.
1987 - A car bomb exploded outside the back gate of the U.S. Embassy in Rome and mortars were fired at the compound from across the street. One passerby was injured in the attacks.
1988 - April 14 - At 8 p.m., a car bomb exploded in front of the USO Club in Naples, Italy. Five people died and fifteen were injured, including four U.S. servicemen who were injured and US Navy Petty Officer Angela Santos, 21, was killed. Junzo Okudaira, a Japanese Red Army (JRA) member, was indicted in the United States on April 9, 1993 for the Naples bombing. Okudaira is also a suspect in the June 1987 car bombing and mortar attack against the U.S. Embassy in Rome.
1988 - December 21 - Pan Am Flight 103, outbound from London for New York with 259 people aboard, was destroyed by a bomb on December 21, 1988 while over Lockerbie, Scotland. All aboard the aircraft were killed as were eleven persons on the ground.
1988 - 1990 - Marine Col. Rich Higgins kidnapped, tortured and murdered by Hezbollah terrorists.

1990s

1993 - January 25 - Attack at CIA Headquarters in McLean, Virginia: 2 killed, 3 injured.
1993 - February 26 - World Trade Center bombing, 6 killed, 1,042 injured.
1995 - March 8 - Killing of two US Diplomats in Pakistan.
1995 - April 19 - Oklahoma City bombing perpetrated by anti-government extremist Timothy McVeigh, 168 killed, over 800 injured.
1996 - June 25 - Khobar Towers bombing: 19 American servicemen killed.
1996 - July 27 - Centennial Olympic Park bombing: during the Atlanta Olympics: 1 killed 111 injured.
1998 - August 7 - US embassy bombings: U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 214 killed (including 12 Americans); U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 11 killed.

21st century

2000s

2000 - USS Cole attacked, October 12 - 17 U.S. Navy sailors killed, 39 sailors injured.
2001 - September 11, 2001 attacks, 2,997 killed by Islamic fundamentalists in New York and northern Virginia.
2002 - Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi
2002 - Bali Nightclub Bombings, October 12 - 202 killed including 7 Americans
2002 - Nine people killed by bomb blast near US embassy in Lima - seen as attempt to disrupt forthcoming visit by President George W. Bush.
2002-2006 - Karachi consulate attacks: three separate attacks killed 18 people (including an American diplomat) and injured 87.
2002 - Two Marines shot, one killed in Kuwait.
2003 - Riyadh Compound Bombings kill 35, including 9 Americans.
2003 - Three American diplomats are killed by a roadside bomb targeting their convoy in Gaza. Palestine Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization has taken responsibility for the attack."^[2]
2003–present - Damascus terrorist attacks: American interests in Syria targeted by Islamists.
2004 - Civilians Nick Berg, Jack Hensley, and Eugene Armstrong kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq.
2004 - Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr, civilian working in Saudi Arabia, kidnapped and beheaded; five other Americans die in attacks in Saudi Arabia in 2004.
2005 - First London Transit Bombings, 52 killed, more than 700 injured.
2005 - Second London Transit Bombings, no one killed, only one injured.
2007 - American embassy attacked in Athens, Greece.
2008 - John Granville, US diplomat, assassinated in Khartoum, Sudan
2009 - Thirteen people, mostly U.S. military personnel, were killed and more than 30 others wounded at Fort Hood, Texas, in a shooting rampage by disgruntled Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan, who during his trial claimed to be waging an Islamic jihad against the United States.

2010s

2011 - 2011 Tucson shooting where U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot. 6 others were killed.
2012 – US Embassy in Libya was attacked. The ambassador and three other Americans were killed.
2012 – Sikh temple in Wisconsin was attacked by a white supremacist. Six Americans were killed, not including the perpetrator, who committed suicide.
2013 – 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, 3 killed, 183 injured. April 15.
2014 – 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers, 3 teens kidnapped and murdered, Hamas suspected, including 1, Naftali Frenkel, an American citizen. June 12.
2015 - 2015 Charleston, South Carolina shooting, a prayer service attended by state senator Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney was attacked by a gunman. 9 people were killed, including the senator.
2015 - 2015 San Bernardino attack in San Bernardino, California, two armed suspects entered at the Inland Regional Center (which is a government-funded not-for-profit public benefit corporation that provides services and programs to people with developmental disabilities and their families in California's San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.) The armed suspects Shot and killed 14 people and injured 21 others including 2 officers.

External links

Terrorism Time Line
History of Terrorism: Timeline of terrorist acts - chronology
Thinkquest: Timeline of Terror
Time.com: A Timeline of Terror Terrorism Hits and Misses
Infoplease: Terrorist Attacks on Americans
Infoplease: Terrorist Attacks (within the United States or against Americans abroad)
Frontline: Terrorist Attacks on Americans
US Department of State - Political Violence Against Americans, 1987–2002 and 2008

References

↑ JAMES M. MARKHAM, Special to the New York Times (1985-11-25). "BOMBING AT PX IN FRANKFURT WOUNDS 34". West Germany; Frankfurt (West Germany): NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
↑ Three killed in Gaza convoy blast

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