Editing Time bomb (section)

==List of notable incidents involving time bombs==
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!rowspan="1"|Year
!width="200" rowspan="1"| Event
!width="150" rowspan="1"| Location
!width="125" rowspan="1"| Perpetrator(s)
!width="75" rowspan="1"| Deaths
!width="75" rowspan="1"| Injuries
!width="250" rowspan="1"|Comments
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| 1776
| [[Turtle (submersible)#Attack on Eagle|Turtle submarine attack on the Eagle]]
| [[New York Harbor]], United States
| Ezra Lee and [[David Bushnell (inventor)|David Bushnell]]
| 0
| 0
| [[David Bushnell (inventor)|David Bushnell]] designed the Turtle submarine using a clockwork time bomb crafted by [[Isaac Doolittle]] that would attach to the hull of the British ship the Eagle using a screw, but the screw failed to penetrate the hull. The time bomb was released and eventually exploded causing great noise but no harm to the British.
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| 1864
| [[City Point, Virginia#Confederate sabotage|Confederate sabotage of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's headquarters]]
| [[City Point, Virginia]], US
| John Maxwell of the [[Confederate Secret Service]]
| 43 to 300
| 125
| Maxwell called his device a "clockwork torpedo"; placed on an ammunition barge, it detonated 30,000 artillery shells<ref>{{cite news|last1=Grady|first1=John|title=The Confederate Torpedo|url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/the-confederate-torpedo/?_r=0|access-date=1 September 2015|work=New York Times|agency=New York Times|date=August 15, 2014}}</ref> 
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| 1875 
| [[Alexander Keith, Jr.#Bremerhaven: Attack on the Mosel|Attack on the Mosel (ship)]]  
| [[Bremerhaven]], Germany 
| [[Alexander Keith, Jr.]] 
| 80 or 83
| 200 
| Bomb set for insurance fraud purposes; detonated prematurely
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| 1880
| [[Winter Palace]] bombing
| [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia
| [[Narodnaya Volya]]
| 11
| 30
| Attempted assassination of [[Tsar Alexander II]]
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| 1881–1885 
| [[Fenian dynamite campaign]]
| Great Britain
| [[Fenian]]s 
| 3 (bombers who died when bomb went off early)
| 100
| [[Irish nationalist]] campaign led by [[Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa]]
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| 1905
| [[Yıldız assassination attempt]] 
| Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
| Edward Joris
| 26  
| 58  
| Failed assassination attempted on [[Abdul Hamid II]]
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| 1910 
| [[Los Angeles Times bombing]] 
| [[Los Angeles]], US
| John J. McNamara and [[James B. McNamara]]  
| 21  
| 100  
| Union-related action
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| 1915 
| [[Eric Muenter|Muenter attack spree]] 
| [[Washington, D.C.]], [[New York City]] 
| [[German nationalist]] [[Eric Muenter]]  
| 0  
| 1
| Set time bombs in [[United States Capitol]], [[SS Minnehaha]], and shot [[J. P. Morgan, Jr.]] against selling arms to Germany's enemies
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| 1915
| [[Pencil bomb attacks]]
| [[New York City]], [[Atlantic Ocean]]
| [[Abteilung III b]], German intelligence
| 36 ships damaged or sunk
|
| Series of incendiary time bombs planted aboard ships transporting war materiel from New York to Europe
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| 1916 
| [[Preparedness Day Bombing]] 
| [[San Francisco]], US
| Labor leaders  
| 10 
| 40 
| [[Isolationist]] political action
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| 1920 
| [[Wall Street bombing]] 
| [[New York City]], US
| [[Anarchist]]s (suspected)  
| 38  
| 400
| Followed other bombings in 1919
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| 1939 
| [[Bürgerbräukeller]]
| [[Munich]], Germany
| [[Georg Elser]] 
| 7
| 63
| Assassination attempt on [[Adolf Hitler]] 
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| 1942 
| [[St Nazaire Raid]] 
| [[St Nazaire]], France (wartime)
| [[Royal Navy]], British commandos 
| 590
| unknown
| To damage port facilities being used by enemy forces
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| 1944 
| [[July Plot]] 
| Wolf's Lair, Poland (wartime) 
| [[German resistance to Nazism]]
| 4  
| ?
| Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler
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| 1949
| [[Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 108]]
| Over [[Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area|Cap Tourmente]], [[Canada]]
| Albert Guay
| 23
| 0
| [[Uxoricide|Murder]]; [[insurance fraud]]
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| 1955 
| [[United Airlines Flight 629]] 
| Over [[Longmont, Colorado]], US
| [[Jack Gilbert Graham]] 
| 44
| 0
| [[Matricide|Murder]]; insurance fraud
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| 1956 
| Milk Bar, Place Bugeaud,<br>Cafeteria, Rue Michelet,<br>[[Air France]] office (failed to detonate)
| [[Algiers]], [[French Algeria]]
| [[Djamila Bouhired]]<br>[[Zohra Drif]]<br>Samia Lakhdari 
| 3
| 50
| Reprisal bombings at start of the [[Algerian War]], September 30, 1956<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gannon|first1=James|title=Military occupations in the age of self-determination: The history neocons neglected|date=2008|publisher=Praeger Security International|location=Westport CT|isbn=978-0-313-35382-6|page=49|url=http://ir.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handle/123456789/134069/8b5e07efcce5d46a41dde1a7bc08dfcd.pdf?sequence=1|access-date=21 February 2015|archive-date=21 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221213546/http://ir.nmu.org.ua/bitstream/handle/123456789/134069/8b5e07efcce5d46a41dde1a7bc08dfcd.pdf?sequence=1|url-status=dead}}</ref> Part of the so-called [[Café Wars]] 
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| 1963-1971
| [[Timeline of the Front de libération du Québec|FLQ bombings]]
| Canada
| [[Front de libération du Québec]]
| None
| 1 (Army officer [[Walter Leja]])
| Series of politically motivated bombings (timed and non-timed devices) and other activities
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| 1969-1976
| [[List of Weatherman actions|Weatherman bombings]]
| United States
| [[Weather Underground]]
| 1 unconfirmed; 3 bombers (premature)
| 3 confirmed; 1 unconfirmed
| Series of politically motivated bombings (timed and non-timed devices) and other activities including jailbreaks and riots
|-
| 1972 
| [[1972 Aldershot bombing|Aldershot bombing]] 
| [[Aldershot]], United Kingdom
| [[Official Irish Republican Army|Official IRA]] 
| 7
| 18
| A 280&nbsp;lb time bomb in a car
|-
| 1972 - 1973
| [[1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings]]
| [[Dublin]], Ireland
| [[Ulster Volunteer Force]]
| 3
| 185
| Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign
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| 1972
| [[Belturbet bombing]]
| [[Cavan]], Ireland
| [[Ulster Volunteer Force]]
| 2
| 8
| Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign
|-
| 1973 
| [[1973 Old Bailey bombing]] 
| London, UK
| IRA 
| 1
| 220
| Continuing anti-British campaign
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| 1974 
| [[M62 coach bombing]] 
| [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]
| [[Provisional IRA]]
| 12
| 38
| Continuing anti-British campaign
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| 1974
| [[1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing ]]
| [[Tokyo]], Japan
| [[East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front]]
| 8
| 376
| Targeted against "Japanese imperialism" and "its colonist" 
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| 1974
| [[Dublin and Monaghan bombings]]
| Dublin and [[Monaghan]], Ireland
| [[Ulster Volunteer Force]]
| 34
| 300
| 4 time bombs in [[car bomb]]s Part of anti-[[Irish Nationalism]] campaign. Biggest loss of life from an attack during the [[Northern Ireland]] [[the Troubles|Troubles]].
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| 1974 
| [[Birmingham pub bombings]] 
| [[Birmingham]], UK
| IRA (suspected)
| 21
| 182
| Continuing anti-British campaign
|-
| 1974 
| [[Guildford pub bombings]] 
| [[Guildford]], UK
| IRA
| 5
| 65
| Targeted against Army personnel
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| 1975
| [[Donnelly's Bar and Kay's Tavern attacks]]
| [[Dundalk]], Ireland
| Ulster Volunteer Force
| 2
| 21
| Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign (1st part of double attack)
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| 1976
| [[Hillcrest Bar bombing]]
| [[Dungannon]], [[County Tyrone]], Northern Ireland
| Ulster Volunteer Force
| 4
| 50
| Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign
|-
| 1976
| [[Castleblayney bombing]]
| Monaghan, Ireland
| Ulster Volunteer Force
| 1
| 17
| Part of anti-Irish nationalism campaign
|-
| 1977 
| ''[[Lucona]]'' sinking
| Indian Ocean
| [[Udo Proksch]]
| 6
| 6
| Attempted insurance fraud
|-
| 1982
| [[Droppin Well bombing]]
| [[Ballykelly, County Londonderry]], NI
| [[Irish National Liberation Army]] INLA
| 17
| 30
| Bombing against British soldiers
|-
| 1984 
| [[Brighton hotel bombing]]
| [[Brighton]], UK
| IRA
| 5
| 31
| Attempt to assassinate PM Margaret Thatcher
|-
| 1985
| [[Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior|Sinking of the ''Rainbow Warrior'']]
| [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]]
| French [[Directorate-General for External Security|DGSE]] 
| 1
| 0
| Two [[limpet mine]]s, set to detonate 10 minutes apart
|-
| 1985 
| [[Air India Flight 182]] and [[1985 Narita International Airport bombing]]
| Atlantic Ocean, Tokyo Narita Airport
| [[Babbar Khalsa]] [[Khalistan movement|Khalistan separatists]]
| 331
| 4
| Bombing of two 747 flights with alarm clock and dynamite hidden in radio tuner
|-
| 1987 
| [[Korean Air Flight 858]]
| [[Andaman Sea]]
| North Korea
| 115 (all)
| 0
| [[State terrorism]] against South Korea
|-
| 1987 
| [[Remembrance Day bombing]] 
| [[Enniskillen]], NI
| IRA
| 12
| 63
| Continuing anti-British campaign
|-
| 1988 
| [[Pan Am flight 103]]
| Above [[Lockerbie]], Scotland
| Libya
| 270
| 0
| Reprisal against UK & US
|-
| 1989 
| [[Deal barracks bombing]] 
| [[Deal, Kent]], UK
| IRA
| 11
| 21
| Targeted against military personnel 
|-
| 1993 
| [[1993 World Trade Center bombing|World Trade Center bombing]] 
| [[New York City]], US
| [[Ramzi Yousef]]
| 6
| 1,042
| Truck bomb used 20&nbsp;ft fuse for twelve-minute delay, intended to collapse both towers. 
|-
| 1994 
| [[Philippine Airlines Flight 434]] 
| Between [[Cebu]] and [[Tokyo]], Japan
| [[Ramzi Yousef]]
| 1
| 10
| Blast missed fuel tank, killed one passenger and damaged control systems but pilot was able to land. Yousef bombed World Trade Center in 1993
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| 1995
| [[Oklahoma City bombing]]
| [[Oklahoma City]], US
| [[Timothy McVeigh]]
| 168
| 800
| Deadliest [[domestic terrorist]] attack in the United States.
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| 1996 
| [[Centennial Olympic Park bombing]] 
| [[Atlanta]], Georgia, US
| [[Eric Rudolph]]
| 1
| 111
| Politically motivated [[anti-abortionist]]; occurred during [[1996 Summer Olympics]]. 
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| 1998 
| [[Omagh bombing]] 
| [[Omagh]], NI
| [[Real IRA]]
| 29
| 220
| Worst single incident loss of life of the anti-British campaign. 
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|1999 
| [[Columbine High School massacre]] 
| [[Columbine, Colorado]], US
| [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold]]
| 15 
| 24
| Bombs did not explode, and were not the cause of any of the deaths or injuries.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-04-13-columbine-myths_N.htm |title=10 years later, the real story behind Columbine |date=April 14, 2009}}</ref> 
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|1999 
| [[Russian apartment bombings]] 
| [[Buynaksk]]<br>[[Moscow]]<br>[[Volgodonsk]], Russia
| Chechen rebels led by [[Ibn al-Khattab|Khattab]] (suspected)

| 293 
| 651
| 4 bombs over 4 days; purpose unknown.<ref>{{cite web |title=Incident summary for GDT ID: 199909040001|url=https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199909040001|publisher=[[National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism|START]] | access-date = 13 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Incident summary for GDT ID: 199909090002|url=https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199909090002 |publisher=[[National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism|START]] | access-date = 13 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Incident summary for GDT ID: 199909130003|url=https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199909130003 |publisher=[[National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism|START]] | access-date = 13 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Incident summary for GDT ID: 199909160002|url=https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199909160002|publisher=[[National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism|START]] | access-date = 13 April 2020}}</ref>
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| 2003 
| [[Murder of Brian Wells]] 
| [[Erie, Pennsylvania]], US
| Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong<br>Kenneth Barnes
| 1 
| 
| Silence witness to forced bank robbery; timed body bomb
|-
| 2006 
| [[2006 Moscow market bombing|Moscow market bombing]] 
| Moscow, Russia
| Racialist organization
| 13
| 46
| Racially motivated attack
|-
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