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.

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DateTypeDeadInjuredLocationDetailsPerpetratorPart of
March 30Assassination, bombing10London, EnglandAbingdon MP Airey Neave is killed by a bomb in his car planted by the Irish National Liberation ArmyINLAThe Troubles
April 22Massacre4 0Nahariya, IsraelNahariya massacre: Four Palestine Liberation Front militants kill four Israeli civilians, including two young children.Palestine Liberation FrontIsrael-Palestine conflict
May 1Bombing00Oslo, NorwayA 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 11Shooting5 5ColombiaM-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.M-19 and FARCColombian conflict
June 3Shooting40Santander Department, ColombiaFARC guerrillas kill a councilman and three leaders of the Liberal Party in the village of Las Trochas, municipality of La Paz.FARCColombian conflict
June 20Hijacking00Chicago, United StatesSerbian 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 28Bombings7100+Madrid, SpainETA-pm carries out a series of coordinated bombings targeting Barajas Airport, Atocha station and Chamartín station.ETA-pmBasque conflict
August 27Bombing, assassination46Mullaghmore, IrelandLouis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and three others are killed by a bomb that was planted on Mountbatten's boat.PIRAThe Troubles
August 27Bombings, shooting197Warrenpoint, Northern IrelandThe 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 TroublesPIRAThe Troubles
November 15Attempted bombing012United StatesA 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 4Hostage-taking127 450+Mecca, Saudi ArabiaHundreds 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 28Shooting, Raid0? UnknownTolima, ColombiaIn limits of the municipalities of the Victory in Caldas and Mariquita, are given of low 10 guerrillas of the FARC.FARCColombian conflict