Terrorist Incidents since 1970

1980

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  January 14, 1980: A large explosion significantly damages the Cuban consulate in Montreal.
  
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  February 27: Dominican embassy siege: Guerrillas from M-19 take diplomats hostage at the Dominican embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. After 61 days, all are released on April 27.
  
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  March 15: armed members of FALN raided the campaign headquarters of President Jimmy Carter in Chicago and the campaign headquarters of George H. W. Bush in New York City. Seven people in Chicago and ten people in New York were tied up as the offices were vandalized before the FALN members fled. A few days later, Carter delegates in Chicago received threatening letters from FALN.
  
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  March 24: Archbishop Óscar Romero assassinated by death squads in El Salvador.
  
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  June 3: A bomb destroys most of the exhibits in the Statue of Liberty story room. No one is arrested, but Croatian separatists are suspected.
  
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  July 27: A member of the Abu Nidal Organization carried out a grenade attack on a group of Jews waiting for a bus in Antwerp, Belgium, killing a child and wounding twenty others. Said Al Nasr will be convicted for this act.
  
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  August 2: Strage di Bologna: Terrorists of the far-right group NAR at the railway station in Bologna, Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
  
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  October 3: Four congregants were killed and twelve others injured in a bomb attack on the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris, France. Responsibility was claimed by the National European Fascists (FNE), but the police investigation concluded that Palestinian terrorists were involved.
  

1981

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  May 16: One dead in an explosion in the toilets at the Pan Am terminal at New York's JFK airport. The bombing is claimed by the Puerto Rican Resistance Army.^[21]
  
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  June 10: Eight IRA prisoners shoot their way out of the Crumlin Road Jail in Belfast, using 3 handguns they had smuggled in.
  
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  August 29: Machine gun and grenade attack on the Stadttempel synagogue in Vienna, killing two people and wounding 23. Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh were convicted.
  
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  October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad.
  
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  October 20: Attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, killing three and wounding sixty.
  

1982

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  March 29: A bomb on board the Paris-Toulouse train kills five and injures 27 people. Carlos assumed to be responsible.
  
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  July 20: The Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings in London by the IRA kill eleven members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.
  
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  August 7: A bomb is set off in Ankara airport, killing nine people and wounding 70. Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia claims responsibility.
  
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  August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant: six killed and 22 wounded - Fatah - the Revolutionary Council
  
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  August 11: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, enroute from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
  
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  September 14: Assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.
  
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  September 18: Four people are wounded when a synagogue in Brussels is attacked in a "shoot and run" incident. Guards were taken by surprise and the gunman, believed to be from the Abu Nidal Organization, escaped.
  
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  October 9: Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, ten people are injured.
  
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  October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.
  
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  November 30: A group called the Animal Rights Militia send a letter bomb to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street, London the device exploded injuring one person.^[22]
  
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  December 6: Ballykelly disco bombing in which Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen soldiers and civilians in Northern Ireland.