1995

April 19, 1995

The bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. 168 killed. The most deadly terrorist attack on American soil until 2001. Timothy McVeigh arrested and convicted and put to death.

1993

February 26, 1993

The bombing of the World Trade Center. 6 killed. Over 1,000 injured. 5 Islamic terrorists arrested and convicted.

1983

November 7, 1983

The bombing of the U.S. Congress leaves a hole in a wall outside the Senate chamber. No injuries. 2 radicals arrested and convicted.

1981

May 16, 1981

The bombing of the Pan Am Terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport; a men's restroom is destroyed. The"Puerto Rican Armed Resistance" takes the credit. No injuries. No arrests.

1975

December 29, 1975

The bombing of the TWA Terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport. 11 killed, 75 injured. No arrests.

January 24, 1975

The bombing of New York's historic Fraunces Tavern. 4 killed. The Associated Press reported that this was one of"49 bombings attributed to the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN between 1974 and 1977 in New York."

1970

August 24, 1970

Four antiwar protestors explode bomb on the campus of University of Wisconsin's Madison campus killing one, injuring three, and causing millions of dollars in damage. Over 50 buildings damaged or destroyed. Three of the men convicted of the crime.

March 6, 1970

Three members of the Weather Underground accidentally blow up their own Greenwich Village townhouse, which was being used as a bomb-making factory. 3 killed.

1963

September 15, 1963

A bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, claiming the lives of four young black girls. Four members of the Ku Klux Klan accused of the crime. One man convicted in 1977, two others convicted in 2000.

1951-56

A former Consolidated Edison employee, George Metesky, explodes bombs at a series of New York landmarks including Grand Central Station and Radio City Music Hall. Metesky spends 16 years in a mental hospital.

1920

September 16, 1920

The bombing of Wall Street. 34 killed, more than 200 injured. Anarchists are suspected.

1910

October 1, 1910

The bombing of the Los Angeles Times. 20 killed. Union radicals are arrested and plead guilty.

1905

December 30, 1905

The bombing of the home of the governor of Idaho, Frank Steunenberg. Steunenberg is killed. A labor radical is arrested and convicted and sentenced to life.

1886

May 4, 1886

The bombing of Haymarket Square, Chicago, Illinois. 7 killed, 70 injured. Labor radicals blamed. 4 hanged, 1 committed suicide in prison. 3 jailed for life (sentences later commuted).