List of terrorist incidents in 1979

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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).

Guidelines

  • To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism".
  • List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under
    MOS:TERRORIST
    .
  • 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
February 12 Aircraft shootdown 59 0 Vuti African Purchase Area, Rhodesia ZIPRA guerillas shot down Air Rhodesia Flight 827, a civilian flight from Kariba to Salisbury using a Strela 2 missile. ZIPRA Rhodesian Bush War
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) 0 Nahariya, Israel
Palestine Liberation Front
militants kill four Israeli civilians, including two children.
Palestine Liberation Front
 Israeli–Palestinian conflict
May 1 Bombing 0 0 Oslo, Norway Petter Kristian Kyvik threw a bomb at a train during a May Day parade, when it passed the corner of University Street and Stortingsgaten. Erik Blücher was screened for participating, but the charges was later. Petter Kristian Kyvik
May 11 Shooting 5 (+2) 5 Colombia M-19 militants assault the town of Belen de Los Andaquies in Caqueta. The commander of the police post, the local judge and two rebels were killed. In other attack the same day
FARC.[1]
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.[2]
FARC
 Colombian conflict
June 16 Massacre 50+ Aleppo, Syria The Aleppo Artillery School massacre was a massacre of Syrian Army cadets by members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria. Muslim Brotherhood in Syria Islamist uprising in Syria
June 20 Hijacking 0 0 Chicago, United States
Yugoslav Communist Party
, but was persuaded out of doing so by his lawyer. 		Nikola Kavaja
July 28 Bombings 7 100+ Madrid, Spain
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 his 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
October 12 Assassination 1 The Hague, Netherlands Ahmet Benler, the son of Özdemir Benler, the Turkish ambassador to the
ASALA and JCAG
. 		Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia and Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide
November 15 Attempted bombing 0 12 United States A bomb that was planted on
Unabomber
case, though it was not the Unabomber's first attack.
Unabomber
November 20 – December 4 Hostage-taking 127 (+117) 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 An attack in the by FARC guerrillas in the boundary of the municipalities of the Victoria in Caldas and Mariquita (Tolima).[3]
FARC
 Colombian conflict

See also

References

  1. ^ "El Tiempo - Búsqueda en el archivo de Google Noticias".
  2. ^ "El Tiempo - Búsqueda en el archivo de Google Noticias".
  3. ^ "El Tiempo - Búsqueda en el archivo de Google Noticias".
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