OTHER DEADLY U.S. BOMBINGS
May 4, 1886: Seven police officers die in a bombing during a labor rally on Chicago's Haymarket Square.
Oct. 1, 1910: A bombing at the Los Angeles Times building during a labor dispute kills 21.
Nov. 14, 1917: Ten die when a suitcase bomb detonates during a San Francisco parade.
April-June, 1919: A wave of anarchist bombings across the nation kills two and injures several more.
Sept. 16, 1920: A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon kills 38 on New York's Wall Street in a suspected anarchist attack.
May 18, 1927: A man suicidal after his farm is foreclosed on for school taxes bombs a school in Bath, Mich., killing 46, then blows up himself and the principal.
July 4, 1940: A bombing at the British Pavilion at the World's Fair in New York kills two.
Sept. 15, 1959: A man whose son was denied enrollment in a Houston school sets off a suicide bomb, also killing five other people.
Sept. 15, 1963: The Ku Klux Klan bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Ala., kills four young girls at Sunday school.
Jan. 7, 1967: A suicide bombing at a Las Vegas hotel kills six.
Aug. 24, 1970: A bomb planted at the University of Wisconsin to protest the Vietnam War kills a scientist.
Jan. 26, 1972: A radical group claiming to represent Soviet Jewry kills two people at the offices of an artistic manager who arranged for American performers to tour the Soviet Union.
Aug. 6, 1974: An anti-immigrant radical's bomb, left in a locker at Los Angeles International Airport, kills three.
Jan. 24, 1975: Puerto Rican separatists kill four in the bombing of a New York tavern.
Dec. 29, 1975: A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing one. Palestinian, Puerto Rican and Croatian groups are suspected.
1978-1995: Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski kills three in a series of mail bombings.
May 16, 1981: A bombing by Puerto Rican separatists kills one man at New York's Kennedy Airport.
Feb. 26, 1993: Islamic terrorists detonate a bomb hidden in a parked van in the World Trade Center garage in New York, killing six.
April 19, 1995: A huge bomb assembled by anti-government radicals explodes outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.
July 27, 1996: Pipe bombs planted by anti-abortion activist Eric Rudolph kill two in an Atlanta park during the Olympics. Another Rudolph bombing, in January 1998 at a Birmingham abortion clinic, kills a security guard.
MORE RECENT BOMBING ATTEMPTS
Oct. 22, 2001: A self-proclaimed al-Qaida operative unsuccessfully attempts to detonate a shoe bomb on a flight from Paris to Miami.
Dec. 25, 2009: The so-called "underwear bomber," Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is subdued by passengers and crew after trying to blow up an airliner heading from Paris to Detroit using explosives hidden in his undergarments. He's sentenced to life in prison.
May 1, 2010: Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad leaves an explosives-laden SUV in New York's Times Square, hoping to detonate it on a busy night. Street vendors spot smoke coming from the vehicle and the bomb is disabled. Shahzad is arrested as he tries to leave the country and is sentenced to life in prison.
Jan. 17, 2011: A backpack bomb is placed along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., meant to kill and injure participants in a civil rights march, but is found and disabled before it can explode. White supremacist Kevin Harpham is convicted and sentenced to 32 years in federal prison.
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