List of terrorist incidents in 1979

This is a timeline of incidents in 1979 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

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Guidelines

  • Types of incidents are selected from the Tactics of terrorism page.
  • Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
  • Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
  • Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also indicate that over that number of people are victims.
  • If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
  • Incidents are limited to one per location per day. If multiple attacks occur in the same place on the same day, they will be merged into a single incident.
  • In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:
  0 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  1–19 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  20–49 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  50–99 people were killed/injured by the incident.
  100+ people were killed/injured by the incident.

List

Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
March 30 Assassination, bombing 1 0 London, England Abingdon MP Airey Neave is killed by a bomb in his car planted by the Irish National Liberation Army INLA The Troubles
April 22 Massacre 4 (+2 terrorists) 0 Nahariya, Israel Nahariya massacre: Four Palestine Liberation Front militants kill four Israeli civilians, including two young children. Palestine Liberation Front Israel-Palestine conflict
May 1 Bombing 0 0 Oslo, Norway A man named Petter Kristian Kyvik threw a bomb against Academic 1st May storefronts 1. May parade in Oslo. The Bomb object was thrown when the train passed the corner of University Street and Stortingsgaten. Erik Blücher was screened for participating, but the charges was later dropped against Blucher. Petter Kristian Kyvik
May 11 Shooting 5 (+2 terrorists) 5 Colombia M-19 militants assault the population of Belen de Los Andaquies in Caqueta. The commander of the police post, the local judge and two subversives die in the attack. In other attack the same day FARC militants killed at least 3 soldiers and wounded other 5, And in the cauca, a landowner and his son were executed for FARC militants.[1] M-19 and FARC Colombian conflict
June 3 Shooting 4 0 Santander Department, Colombia FARC guerrillas kill a councilman and three leaders of the Liberal Party in the village of Las Trochas, municipality of La Paz (Santander).[2] FARC Colombian conflict
June 20 Hijacking 0 0 Chicago, United States Serbian nationalist Nikola Kavaja hijacks American Airlines Flight 293 with the intentions of crashing it into the headquarters of the Yugoslav Communist Party, but was persuaded out of doing so by his lawyer. Nikola Kavaja
July 28 Bombings 7 100+ Madrid, Spain ETA-pm carries out a series of coordinated bombings targeting Barajas Airport, Atocha station and Chamartín station. ETA-pm Basque conflict
August 27 Bombing, assassination 4 6 Mullaghmore, Ireland Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and three others are killed by a bomb that was planted on Mountbatten's boat. PIRA The Troubles
August 27 Bombings, shooting 19 7 Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland The Provisional IRA ambushes a British Army convoy, detonating two roadside bombs and firing on the soldiers after the blasts. The attack was the deadliest on the British Army during The Troubles PIRA The Troubles
November 15 Attempted bombing 0 12 United States A bomb that was planted on American Airlines Flight 444 only partially explodes and filled the passenger's cabin with smoke, injuring twelve people through smoke inhalation. Had the bomb properly detonated, it would have destroyed the plane. The attack was the catalyst for the Unabomber case, though it was not the Unabomber's first attack. Unabomber
November 20 – December 4 Hostage-taking 127 (+117 terrorists) 450+ Mecca, Saudi Arabia Hundreds of militants from Wahabi group Ikhwan seized the Masjid al-Haram, Islam's holiest site, and demanded the overthrow of the House of Saud and institution of an Islamic state. The two-week siege resulted in the deaths of about 250 people and injury of hundreds more. Ikhwan
December 28 Shooting, Raid 0? (+10) Unknown Tolima, Colombia In limits of the municipalities of the Victory in Caldas and Mariquita (Tolima), are given of low 10 guerrillas of the FARC.[3] FARC Colombian conflict

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1706&dat=19790513&id=rescAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UGYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7193,407761&hl=es
  2. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1706&dat=19790605&id=2JscAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iGYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2540,1203813&hl=es
  3. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=N2osnxbUuuUC&dat=19791229&printsec=frontpage&hl=es
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