Enemies: A History of the FBI (2012)

A timeline of terrorist attacks in the United States throughout history:
Attacks by date
1750–99
# Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator
1 March 8, 1782 Massacre 96 2 Ohio Gnadenhutten, Ohio (then part of the Indian reserve / Ohio Country) Gnadenhutten massacre – Pennsylvania militia round up and execute 96 unarmed pacifist Christian Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including 69 women and children, as revenge for raids against settlers (carried out by other Indians) as well as in expression of general animosity towards all Native Americans. They then plundered and burned their village. Pennsylvania militia
1800–99
# Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator
2 September 3, 1812 Scalping 24 unknown Pigeon Roost Village, Northwest Territory Pigeon Roost massacre – Near the onset of the war of 1812, a war party of Shawnee Indians made a surprise attack on Pigeon Roost village, slaughtering 24 settlers. Shawnee Indians
3 November 18, 1813 Massacre 64 29 Alabama Hillabee, Alabama Hillabee massacre – A day after the Hillabee Creeks had sued for peace, which was then granted by General Andrew Jackson, General William Cocke attacked and destroyed the Creek villages of Little Oakfusky and Genalga and then the main town of Hillabee. Thinking they were at peace, the Indians were unprepared and gave little resistance. U.S. troops
4 April 21, 1818 Pillaging of village 5–10 unknown Georgia (U.S. state) Chehaw Village, Georgia Chehaw Affair – During the First Seminole War, Captain Obed Wright and a band of volunteer Georgia militiamen, angered by recent attacks from the Phelemmes and the Hoppones, took out their anger on the friendly village of Chehaw, despite the insistence of the local fort commander that the people were peaceful. Wright and his militia burned the village to the ground and claimed to have killed 40–50 warriors without suffering any casualties, though other accounts placed number of Chehaw residents killed at 5–10. Volunteer militia
5 February 1823 Massacre and razing of village 19 unknown Galveston Bay, Mexican Texas Skull Creek massacre – After Coco Indians killed two colonists under unclear circumstances, the colonists got together twenty-five men and found a Karankawa village on Skull Creek. They killed at least nineteen inhabitants of the village before the rest could flee, then stole their possessions and burned their homes to the ground. White Colonists
6 1826 Massacre by rifle 40–50 unknown Galveston Bay, Mexican Texas Dressing Point massacre – After a reported attack on two settler families, a band of White settlers went out looking for Indians and found a group of Coco Indians pinned against a river mouth. When the Indians attempted to escape by swimming across the river, the settlers shot them as they swam, killing men, women, and children. White colonists
7 November 7, 1837 Lynching, shootout 1 (+1) Several Illinois Alton, Illinois Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed by a pro-slavery mob while defending the site of his anti-slavery newspaper, The Saint Louis Observer. Pro-slavery mob
8 August 6 – November 1, 1838 War 22
9 May 12, 1846 Massacre by gun 14+ unknown Oregon Klamath County, Oregon Klamath Lake massacre – Frémont expeditioners led by Kit Carson destroyed a village of Klamath peoples on the shores of Klamath Lake, killing at least 14 Klamath Indians. White expeditioners and Delaware Indians
10 June 1846 Massacre by gun several unknown California Sutter County, California Sutter Buttes massacre – American expeditioners attacked a rancheria of Patwin Indians, killing several while the rest fled. White expeditioners and Delaware Indians
11 February 28, 1847 Massacre by gun 20 unknown California Sutter County, California Kern and Sutter massacres – White American settlers and U.S. Army personnel make a series of three attacks on local California Indians in an attempt to dissuade them from future raids. U.S. Army and White settlers
12 March 1847 Massacre 5 (possibly 1) "many more" California Sutter County, California Rancheria Tulea massacre – American slavers attack Rancheria Tulea in retaliation for the escape of Indian slaves. White slavers
13 June/July 1847 Slave raid 12–20 unknown California Sutter County, California Konkow Maidu slaver massacre – Konkow Maidu massacred so that ~30 of their women and children could be carried off into slavery. White slavers
14 May 15, 1854 Massacre by gun from horses 40 unknown California Mendocino County, California Asbill massacre – Six Missouri explorers led by Pierce Asbill, upon learning that the newly discovered Round Valley which they coveted was populated by Indians, proceeded to kill approximately 40 of the Yuki with guns from horseback. White settlers
15 May 21, 1856 Sacking 0 (+1) 1 Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Territory Sacking of Lawrence – Pro-Slavery forces enter Lawrence, Kansas to disarm residents and destroy the town's presses and the Free State Hotel. Pro-slavery militants
16 May 22, 1856 Assault 0 1 Washington, D.C.District of Columbia Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina famously assaulted Charles Sumner for an anti slavery speech and personal insults. Pro-slavery militants
17 September 11, 1857 Massacre ~120 ~17 Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory Mountain Meadows massacre – During the Utah War, Mormon militiamen fueled by paranoia attacked the Baker–Fancher party wagon train, killing everyone older than 7. The party's 17 surviving children were kidnapped into Mormon families and the victims' property was auctioned off to the local community. Historical records vary widely regarding the involvement of the local Paiutes. Utah Territorial Militia and local Paiutes
18 October 16, 1859 Mass shooting, stabbing 5 Kansas Franklin County, Kansas Territory Pottawatomie massacre – In response to the sacking of Lawrence, John Brown led a group of abolitionists to murder five Kansas settlers from Tennessee, whom he presumed to be pro-slavery. Pottawatomie Rifles
19 July 1859 – January 1860 Organized genocide 283+ (+5) unknown California Mendocino County, California Mendocino War – Anti-Indian band of mercenaries known as the "Eel River Rangers" kill 283 Indians, as well as capturing 292, in 23 separate engagements meant to drive Indians out of Round Valley. Overall casualties may have been in excess of 600. Eel River Rangers, anti-Indian mercenaries
20 February 26–28, 1860 Mass shooting, stabbing, hatchets, clubs 80+ unknown California Indian Island (Humboldt Bay), California 1860 Wiyot massacre – Motivated by anger at cattle-stealing and the aim of terrorizing and eliminating all Indians in the region, around 50–100 white settlers coordinated 12 attacks on women, children, and elder men in Wiyot villages in the Humboldt Bay area from February 26–28. The reported number of Indians killed in some of the attacks are 80-150+ (Indian Island), 40 (Eel River), 58 (South Beach), 35 (Eagle Prairie), while the death tolls from several attacks are unknown.[1] White settlers
21 August 21, 1863 Massacre/Plunder 164 (+40) 1 Kansas Lawrence, Kansas Territory Lawrence massacre – Pro-Confederate guerrillas destroy Lawrence, Kansas due to its support of abolition and reputation as a holdout for pro-union militias. Pro-Confederate guerrillas
22 December 7, 1863 Murder/Piracy 1 3 Massachusetts Off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts Chesapeake Affair – Pro-Confederate British subjects from the Maritime Provinces hijacked the American steamer Chesapeake off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing a crew member and wounding three others in the ensuing gunfight. The intent of this hijacking was to use the ship as a blockade runner for the Confederacy under belief that they had an official Confederate letter of marque. The perpetrators had planned to re-coal at Saint John, New Brunswick, and head south to Wilmington, North Carolina.[2] Instead, the captors had difficulties at Saint John; so they sailed further east and re-coaled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. U.S. forces responded to the attack by trying to arrest the captors in Nova Scotian waters. All of the Chesapeake hijackers were able to escape extradition through the assistance of William Johnston Almon, a prominent Nova Scotian and Confederate sympathizer. Pro-Confederate British subjects
23 October 19, 1864 Robbery/Murder/Hostage-taking/Attempted arson 1 2 Vermont St. Albans, Vermont On October 19, 1864, non-properly uniformed Confederate soldiers led by Bennett H. Young raided the border town of St. Albans, Vermont from Canada, robbing $208,000 from three banks, holding hostages, killing a civilian, attempting to burn the entire town with Greek fire, then escaping back to Canada;[3] the raiders were then arrested by British authorities under an extradition request from the U.S. government, but were later freed by a Canadian court on the grounds that they were considered combatants rather than criminals.[4][5] Bennett H. Young and his co-conspirators
24 April 14, 1865 Assassination, shooting, stabbing 1 4 District of Columbia Abraham Lincoln assassination – Part of a conspiracy by Confederate supporters John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell and George Atzerodt to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward in Washington, D.C. to create chaos for the purpose of overthrowing the Federal Government. Booth succeeded in assassinating Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Seward suffered numerous stab wounds by Powell who stabbed others as he was chased out of Seward's home, and Atzerodt failed to carry out the planned murder of Johnson. Booth was killed by soldiers when he failed to surrender. Eight conspirators were tried and convicted for their role in the conspiracy by a military tribunal, including Powell and Atzerodt. Four defendants were executed for their roles including Powell, Azterodt and Mary Surratt, whom many historians conclude was probably innocent. Surratt was the first woman ever to be executed by the U.S. government. John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt and co-conspirators
25 March 1871 Mob violence ~30 unknown Mississippi Meridian, Mississippi Meridian Race Riot of 1871 – A highly contentious trial regarding the persecution of Black freedmen by the Ku Klux Klan and subsequent retaliation by the freedmen led to a gunfight in the courtroom and the death of the presiding judge. The local Klansmen looked for the Black suspects they thought responsible, and when unable to find them began killing all freedmen of note in the town, some on the streets and others while in custody. At least one home and a church that was being used as a school were also burned down. Approximately thirty Black men were killed over three days before federal troops arrived to stop the killings. Ku Klux Klan and White locals
26 April 13, 1873 Mass shooting, prisoner massacre 105+ (+3) unknown Louisiana Colfax, Louisiana Colfax massacre – Black freedmen defending a courthouse were massacred by 300 armed White Southern Democrats and Ku Klux Klan members who wanted to take political control of the town in what they referred to as a "struggle for White supremacy". Casualty reports varied from 62 to 153, with a military report at the time stating 81 Black men by name who had been killed with several dozen more secretly buried or disposed of in the river, along with three White men, for a total of "at least" 105 casualties.[6] Southern Democrats, Ku Klux Klan and White locals
27 July 2, 1881 Assassination, shooting 1 0 District of Columbia Assassination of James A. Garfield – United States President James A. Garfield was shot by a disgruntled office seeker named Charles J. Guiteau. He was turned down by Garfield for the French Ambassadorship. Angry at this rejection, he shot Garfield. Garfield died on September 19, 1881, of blood poisoning caused by unclean medical treatment. Guiteau was tried, convicted and hanged. Charles J. Guiteau
28 May 4, 1886 Bombing, shooting, riot 11+ 130+ Illinois Chicago, Illinois Haymarket affair – An unknown person or persons at Haymarket Square in Chicago detonated a bomb during a labor rally, killing a police officer and prompting the police to open fire. In the mayhem, an undetermined number of civilians and seven more police officers were killed, mostly by the police shooting in response.[7] Eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy, and four of them hanged the next year. One killed himself, and the remaining three were later pardoned. Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions
Chicago Police Department
29 October 28, 1893 Assassination 1 0 Illinois Chicago, Illinois Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast was upset that the Mayor of Chicago, Carter Harrison, Sr., advocated for the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, seeing it as an action against the citizenry and acting under the influence of England, the Rothschild bankers of Europe, and Wall St. Prendergast imagined this as part of a larger conspiracy that betrayed the will of Jesus Christ. As a delusional newspaper man, he found himself unable to influence policy in Washington or Chicago and ultimately took it upon himself to change the course of history by assassinating the powerful mayor. He felt that his inevitable acquittal would establish a precedent wherein Christian law would be established throughout the city. Prendergast was found sane by a jury and hanged on July 14, 1894.[8] Patrick Eugene Prendergast
1900–59
# Date Type Dead Injured Location(s) Details Perpetrator
30 September 6, 1901 Assassination, shooting 1 0 New York (state) Buffalo, New York Assassination of William McKinley – President William McKinley is assassinated by Michigan-born anarchist Leon Czolgosz, in Buffalo, New York.[9] Leon Czolgosz
31 December 30, 1905 Assassination, bombing 1 0 Idaho Caldwell, Idaho Former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg is killed by a bomb in front of his Caldwell, Idaho home. The assassin, Harry Orchard, turned state's evidence and accused the Western Federation of Miners of having hired him to assassinate Steunenberg in retaliation for breaking up miners' strikes. However, the labor leaders put on trial due to his accusations were acquitted as defense attorneys Clarence Darrow and Edmund F. Richardson successfully discredited Orchard's testimony.[10] Harry Orchard
32 October 1, 1910 Bombing 21 100+ California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Times bombing – The Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles was destroyed by dynamite, killing 21 workers. The bomb was apparently placed due to the paper's opposition to unionization in the city;[11] two labor organizers, the McNamara brothers, then pled guilty to escape a death sentence, receiving fifteen years and life in prison respectively. James and John McNamara
33 May 30, 1915 Bombing 0 0 Washington (state) Harbor Island, Seattle, Washington German agents blew up a barge carrying 15 tons of refined gunpowder just off of Harbor Island, Seattle, Washington.[12] Imperial German agents
34 July 2–3, 1915 Bombing, shooting 0 1 District of Columbia/New York (state) Glen Cove, New York Frank Holt (also known as Eric Muenter), a German professor who wanted to stop American support of the Allies in World War I, exploded a bomb in the reception room of the U.S. Senate. The next morning he tried to assassinate J. P. Morgan, Jr., the son of the financier whose company served as Britain's principal purchasing agent for munitions and other war supplies in the United States. Muenter was overpowered by Morgan in Morgan's Long Island home before killing himself in prison on July 7.[13][14] Eric Muenter
35 July 22, 1916 Bombing 10 40 California San Francisco, California Preparedness Day Bombing – Ten people killed and 40 injured by an explosion during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco. Two radical labor leaders, Warren K. Billings and Thomas Mooney, were convicted of the crime and sentenced to hang, but with little evidence of their guilt both sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. They were both eventually pardoned, and the actual bombers' identities remain unknown. Galleanist anarchists (suspected)
36 July 30, 1916 Bombing, sabotage 7 Hundreds New Jersey Jersey City, New Jersey Black Tom explosion – in Jersey City, New Jersey was an act of sabotage on American ammunition supplies by German agents to prevent the materiel from being used by the Allies in World War I. Imperial German agents
37 October 21, 1916 Lynching 1 1 Abbeville County, South Carolina Anthony Crawford, a prominent black landowner and businessman, was attacked, arrested for his own protection, abducted from jail, hung and shot. He managed to hit one of his attackers (McKinny Cann) in the head with a hammer. White mob
38 November 24, 1917 Bombing 10 2 Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin A bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station, killing nine officers and a civilian. Anarchists were suspected.[15][16] Galleanist anarchists (suspected)
39 1919 Bombings 1 Several United States Across the country 1919 United States anarchist bombings: A series of package bombs were mailed to prominent business and government leaders around the country. Most were intercepted and did not go off, with only one person killed (a bomber whose bomb went off accidentally). Italian Galleanist anarchists were suspected, but not convicted. Galleanist anarchists (suspected)
40 1919 Race riots Hundreds Hundreds United States Across the country Red Summer: period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots took place across the United States. In most instances, attacks consisted of white-on-black violence. However, numerous African Americans also fought back, notably in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. race riots Still, the highest number of fatalities occurred in the rural area around Elaine, Arkansas, where an estimated 100–240 black people and five white people were killed—an event now known as the Elaine massacre. White mobs
41 September 16, 1920 Bombing 38 143 New York (state) New York City, New York Wall Street bombing: A horse-drawn wagon filled with explosives was detonated in front of the J. P. Morgan bank on Wall Street, killing 38 and wounding 143. Galleanist anarchists were again suspected, but the perpetrators were never caught.[17] Galleanist anarchists (suspected)
42 June 1, 1921 Mob violence 75–300 800+ Oklahoma Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa race massacre: White mobs of approximately 500–1000 people, instigated by the rumor of an assault of a white woman and subsequent minor riot, armed themselves and attacked a black neighborhood in Tulsa known as the Black Wall Street. The riot killed 75–300 people and destroyed more than 1,100 homes and hundreds of businesses, leaving over 9,000 people homeless.[18] Airplanes were reported to have dropped incendiary devices on the city, contributing to a firestorm.[19] White mobs
43 May 18, 1927 Bombing 44 (+1) 58 Michigan Bath Township, Michigan Bath School disaster: 55-year-old school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe, angered by his property taxes being raised and having been defeated in a campaign for township clerk, detonated a cache of dynamite he placed in the Bath Consolidated School as revenge, destroying the north wing. In the explosion 36 school children and two teachers were killed. As rescuers arrived to help, Kehoe drove up in his truck and detonated another cache of dynamite stored there, which killed himself, the school superintendent, and several others, while injuring bystanders as well. Afterward, 500 more pounds of dynamite with a timing device were found in the south wing which Kehoe apparently set to go off at the same time but failed, and would have succeeded in destroying the entire school. Prior to the bombings, Kehoe murdered his wife and also destroyed his farm buildings with dynamite. The worst mass murder at a school in US history, it may also be the first suicide truck bombing. A sign Kehoe placed on his property was found afterward reading "Criminals are made, not born".[20] Andrew Kehoe
44 July 4, 1940 Bombing 2 2 New York (state) New York City, New York Two New York City policemen were killed and two critically wounded while examining a bomb they had found at the British Pavilion at the World's Fair.[citation needed] Unknown
45 1940–1956 Bombing 0 10 New York (state) New York City, New York George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber", placed over 30 bombs in New York City in public places such as Grand Central Station and the Paramount Theatre, injuring 10, in protest of the high rates of a local electric utility. He also sent many threatening letters to various high-profile individuals. George Metesky
46 February 12, 1941 Lynching 1 0 Fort Benning Military Base, Georgia Private Felix Hall was strangled to death on base after an argument with his white boss and walking through a white neighborhood. His murder by a number of assailants was poorly investigated by the army, which kept insisting that he strangled himself despite the evidence. White supremacists
47 1951 Bombings, shootings, melee attacks Several Several Florida A wave of hate-related terrorist attacks occurred in Florida. African-Americans were dragged and beaten to death, with 11 race-related bombings, the dynamiting of synagogues, and a Jewish School in Miami and explosives found outside of Catholic Churches in Miami.[21][22]
48 March 1, 1954 Shooting 0 5 Washington, D.C. Capitol Hill shooting incident – An attack carried out by Puerto Rican nationalists, they shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol. Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Andrés Figueroa Cordero, Irvin Flores Rodríguez
49 1957 Bombing 0 0 Nashville, Tennessee Before school day started on September 10, the day after the first African American student started attending Hattie Cotton Elementary School a bomb exploded, destroying part of the building and causing $71,000 damage. White supremacists
50 October 12, 1958 Bombings 0 0 Georgia (U.S. state) Atlanta, Georgia Bombing of the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple of Atlanta, Georgia. The acts were carried out by white supremacists. National States' Rights Party (suspected)
1960–69
# Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator
51 September 15, 1963 Bombings 4 22 Alabama Birmingham, Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Members of the Ku Klux Klan and segregationists plant bombs inside the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, killing four young African American girls and injuring 22 more. Ku Klux Klan and segregationists
52 November 22, 1963 Assassination, shooting 2 2 Texas Dallas, Texas Assassination of John F. Kennedy: U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy is killed by communist Lee Harvey Oswald in Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Oswald kills Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit while fleeing. Lee Harvey Oswald
53 June 16, 1964 Burning 0 0 Mississippi Neshoba County, Mississippi Mt. Zion Baptist Church is burned as part of a campaign to stop integration and the Civil Rights Movement. Ku Klux Klan
54 June 21, 1964 Murder 3 0 Mississippi Philadelphia, Mississippi Michael (Mickey) Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman are detained by Mississippi police then abducted and murdered for their work with Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Ku Klux Klan
55 April 1968 Hostage-taking 0 0 Connecticut Hartford, Connecticut Students at Trinity College hold the board of trustees captive until their demands were met.[23] Trinity College students
56 April 4, 1968 Assassination, shooting 1 0 Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. James Earl Ray, anti-communist and white supremacist.
57 April 23–30, 1968 Hostage-taking 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York During a student rebellion at New York's Columbia University, members of the New Left organization Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Afro-American Society held a dean hostage, demanding an end to both military research on campus and an end to construction of a gymnasium in nearby Harlem.[24] Students for a Democratic Society
Student Afro-American Society
58 June 5, 1968 Assassination, shooting 1 5 California Los Angeles, California Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, while campaigning for U.S. presidency during the 1968 United States Presidential election, is shot to death by Palestinian-Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Sirhan was angered over Kennedy's support for Israel. Sirhan Sirhan
59 November 1968 Hostage taking 0 0 California Los Angeles, California Officials of San Fernando State College are held at knifepoint by students.[23] San Fernando State College students
60 January 1, 1969 – April 15, 1970 Widespread violence Unknown Unknown United States 8200 Bombings, attempted bombings and bomb threats attributed to "campus disturbances and student unrest"[23] University students across America, many members of Students for a Democratic Society
61 February 1969 Bombing 0 1 California Claremont, California A secretary at Pomona College is severely injured by bomb.[23] Left-wing student radicals
62 March 1969 Bombing 0 0 (+1) California San Francisco, California A student is critically injured while attempting to bomb a San Francisco State College classroom.[23] Left-wing student radical
63 August 20, 1969 Bombing 0 20 New York (state) New York City, New York Twenty are injured by radical leftist Sam Melville in a bombing of the Marine Midland Building in New York City. Sam Melville
64 September 18, 1969 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York The Federal Building in New York City is bombed by radical leftist Jane Alpert.[25] Jane Alpert
65 October 7, 1969 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York Fifth floor of the Armed Forces Induction Center in New York City is devastated by explosion attributed to radical leftist Jane Alpert. Jane Alpert
66 November 12, 1969 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York A bomb is detonated in the Manhattan Criminal Court building in New York City. Jane Alpert, Sam Melville, and 3 other militant radical leftists are arrested hours later.[25][26] Jane Alpert, Sam Melville and others
1970–79
# Date Type Dead Injured Location(s) Details Perpetrator
67 1970s Bombing 5 69+ New York (state) New York City/Illinois Chicago, Illinois The most active perpetrators of terrorism in New York City were Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), a Puerto Rican separatist group, responsible for 40 NYC attacks in this decade. The Jewish Defense League (JDL), which engaged in attacks against targets it perceived to be anti-Semitic, launched 27 attacks during this period, none deadly. Both the Independent Armed Revolutionary Commandos (CRIA), another Puerto Rican separatist group, and Omega 7, an anti-Castro Cuban organization, were also each responsible for 16 attacks during this period.[27] Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional
68 April 1970 Riot 0 Unknown California Stanford, California At Stanford University, over a period of several nights, bands of student radicals systematically set fires, broke windows and threw rocks.[23] Left-wing student radicals
69 May 1970 Firebombing 0 0 California Fresno, California In reaction to the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, Kent State shootings, and Jackson State killings, a Fresno State College computer center is destroyed by a firebomb. While reaction to these three events was massive, most were peaceful.[23] Left-wing student radicals
70 August 24, 1970 Bombing 1 3 Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Sterling Hall bombing: Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison is bombed in protest of the Army Mathematics Research Center and the Vietnam War, killing one. Bombers Karleton Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, David Fine, and Leo Burt claimed the death of physicist Robert Fassnacht was unintentional but acknowledged that they knew the building was occupied when they planted the bomb. Karleton Armstrong, Dwight Armstrong, David Fine, and Leo Burt
71 November 21, 1970 Bombing 0 1 Oregon Portland, Oregon Bombing of the City Hall of Portland, Oregon in an attempt to destroy the state's bronze Liberty Bell replica. The late night explosion destroyed the display foyer, blew out the building doors, damaged the council hall, and blew out windows more than a block away. The night janitor was injured in the blast. The crime remains unsolved, though a number of local anti-war and radical leftist groups of the era remain the primary suspects. Left-wing extremists (suspected)
72 1970 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York The Jewish Defense League was linked to a bomb explosion outside of Aeroflot's New York City office in protest of the treatment of Soviet Jews. Jewish Defense League
73 1971 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York The Jewish Defense League was linked to a detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington, D.C. and rifle fire into the Soviet mission to the United Nations. Jewish Defense League
74 March 1, 1971 Bombing 0 0 Washington, D.C. The radical leftist group Weatherman exploded a bomb in the United States Capitol to protest the U.S. invasion of Laos. Weatherman
75 June 1, 1973 Shooting 1 0 Maryland Chevy Chase, Maryland Yosef Alon, the Israeli Air Force attache in Washington, D.C., was shot and killed outside his home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The Palestinian militant group Black September was suspected, though the case remains unsolved.[28] Black September (suspected)
76 June 24, 1973 Arson 32 15 Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana The UpStairs Lounge arson attack occurred on June 24, 1973, at a gay bar called the UpStairs (or Up Stairs) Lounge located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States.[29] Thirty-two people died as a result of fire or smoke inhalation. The official cause is still listed as "undetermined origin".[30] The most likely suspect, a man named Roger Nunez who had been ejected from the bar earlier in the day, was never charged and took his own life in November 1974.[31][32][33] No evidence has ever been found that the arson was motivated by hatred or overt homophobia.[33] Roger Dale Nunez (suspected; never charged)
77 June 13, 1974 Bombing 0 0 Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The 29th floor of the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was bombed with dynamite at 9:41 pm resulting in no injuries. The radical leftist group Weatherman took credit, but no suspects have ever been identified.[34] Weatherman
78 Summer 1974 Bombings 3 36 California Los Angeles, California "Alphabet Bomber" Muharem Kurbegovic bombed the Pan Am Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three and injuring 36. He also firebombed the houses of a judge and two police commissioners as well as one of the commissioner's cars. He burned down two Marina Del Rey apartment buildings and threatened Los Angeles with a gas attack. His bomb defused at the Greyhound Bus station was the most powerful the LAPD bomb squad had handled up until that time. His personal vendetta against a judge and the commissioners grew into demands for an end to immigration and naturalization laws, as well as any laws about sex.[35][36] Muharem Kurbegovic
79 January 24, 1975 Bombing 4 50+ New York (state) New York City, New York A bomb was exploded in the Fraunces Tavern of New York City, killing four people and injuring more than 50 others. The Puerto Rico nationalist group FALN, the Armed Forces of Puerto Rican National Liberation, which had other bomb incidents in New York in the 1970s, claimed responsibility. No one was ever prosecuted for the bombing. FALN
80 December 29, 1975 Bombing 11 76 New York (state) New York City, New York LaGuardia Airport Bombing: killed 11 and injured 75. The bombing remains unsolved.[37] Unknown
81 September 11, 1976 Aircraft hijacking, bombing 1 3 United States Airspace Croatian terrorists hijacked a TWA airliner and diverted it to Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, and then Paris, demanding a manifesto be printed. One police officer was killed and three injured during an attempt to defuse a bomb that contained their communiques in a New York City train station locker.[38] Zvonko Bušić who served 32 years in prison for the attack, was released and returned to Croatia in July 2008. In September 2013 Bušić shot himself and was given a hero's funeral by the Croatian government.[39] Zvonko Bušić and co-conspirators
82 September 21, 1976 Assassination, bombing 2 1 Washington, D.C. Orlando Letelier, a former member of the Chilean government, is killed by a car bomb in Washington, D.C. along with his assistant Ronni Moffitt. The killing was carried out by members of the Chilean Intelligence Agency, DINA. DINA
83 March 9–11, 1977 Hijacking 2 149 hostages Washington, D.C. 1977 Washington, D.C. attack and hostage taking: Hanafi Muslim gunmen seize three buildings in Washington, DC and hold hostages for three days, in revenge for the 1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre carried out by a Nation of Islam faction. Hamaas Abdul Khaalis and allies
1980–89
# Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator
84 June 3, 1980 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York Bombing of the Statue of Liberty: At 7:30 pm, a time delayed explosive device detonates in the Statue of Liberty's Story Room. Detonated after business hours, the bomb did not injure anyone, but caused $18,000 in damage, destroying many of the exhibits. The room was sealed off and left unrepaired until the Statue of Liberty restoration project that began years later. FBI investigators believed the perpetrators were Croatians seeking media coverage of the living conditions of Croats in Yugoslavia, though no arrests were made.[40][41] Croatian nationalists (suspected)
85 July 22, 1980 Shooting 1 0 Maryland Bethesda, Maryland Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian exile and critic of Ayatollah Khomeni, is shot in his Bethesda, Maryland home. Dawud Salahuddin, an American Muslim convert, was apparently paid by Iranians to kill Tabatabai.[42] Dawud Salahuddin
Iran
86 March 21, 1981 Lynching, Cross Burning 1 0 AlabamaMobile, Alabama In response to a black man not being found guilty of murdering a white man, three members of the KKK burned a cross on the courthouse lawn. They then picked a black person at random, Michael Donald, who they abducted, beat, strangled and killed; they left his body hanging from a tree. It is one of the few times white perpetrators have been tried and found guilty of a lynching. It is sometimes called the "Last Lynching in America", although it was not the last random racial murder by a white supremacist in the United States, and despite the fact that Michael Donald was not abducted from a jail or courthouse, as was the case with historical lynchings. Ku Klux Klan
87 December 7, 1981 Kidnapping attempt 0 0 Washington, D.C. James W. von Brunn, who would go on to commit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting in Washington, D.C. in 2009, served 6 years in prison for attempting to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve at their headquarters in 1981. He testified his motive was to raise awareness of alleged "treacherous and unconstitutional" acts by the Federal Reserve.[43] James W. von Brunn
88 January 28, 1982 Assassination, shooting 1 0 California Los Angeles, California Kemal Arıkan, the Turkish Consul-General in Los Angeles, was killed by members of the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide
89 May 4, 1982 Assassination, shooting 1 0 Massachusetts Somerville, Massachusetts Assassination of Orhan Gündüz: Turkish Honorary Consul Orhan Gündüz is assassinated in his car in Somerville, Massachusetts by the Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide. Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide
90 November 7, 1983 Bombing 0 0 Washington, D.C. U.S. Senate bombing: The Armed Resistance Unit, a militant leftist group, bombed the United States Capitol in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.[44] May 19th Communist Organization
91 June 18, 1984 Assassination, shooting 1 0 Colorado Denver, Colorado Alan Berg, Jewish-American lawyer and talk show host, is shot and killed in the driveway of his home on Capitol Hill, Denver, Colorado, by members of a neo-Nazi and white separatist group called The Order led by terrorist David Lane (the creator of the slogan "Fourteen Words"). Berg had stridently argued with a member of the group on the show earlier who was convicted in his murder. The Order
92 August – October 1984 Food poisoning 0 751 OregonThe Dalles, Oregon 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack: In what is believed to be the first incident of bioterrorism in the United States, the Rajneesh movement spreads salmonella in salad bars at 10 restaurants in The Dalles, Oregon, to influence a local election. The plan backfired, as suspicious residents came out in droves to prevent the election of Rajneeshee candidates. Health officials say that 751 people were sickened and more than 40 hospitalized. All but one of the establishments attacked went out of business. Investigators believed that similar attacks had previously been carried out in Salem, Portland and other cities in Oregon.[45] Rajneesh movement
93 October 11, 1985 Assassination, bombing 1 0 California Santa Ana, California Alex Odeh, a prominent Arab-American, was killed by a bomb in his office in Santa Ana, California. The case is unsolved, but it is thought the Jewish Defense League was responsible. Jewish Defense League (suspected)
94 December 11, 1985 Bombing 1 0 California Sacramento, California Computer rental store owner, Hugh Scrutton, was the first fatality of the Unabomber's neo-luddite campaign. Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)
95 March 1, 1989 Firebombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York 1989 firebombing of the Riverdale Press: The Riverdale Press, a weekly newspaper in the Bronx, New York, was firebombed one week after publishing an editorial defending author Salman Rushdie's right to publish The Satanic Verses, which questioned the founding story of Islam.[46][47] Unknown
1990–99
# Date Type Dead Injured Location(s) Details Perpetrator
96 November 5, 1990 Assassination, shooting 1 0 New York (state) New York City, New York Assassination of Meir Kahane: El Sayyid Nosair, a member of an Islamist terror cell led by Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman, disguises himself as an Orthodox Jew in order to assassinate politician and Rabbi Meir Kahane leader of the anti-Arab and anti-Islamic Kahanism movement and its political party in Israel Kach and Kahane Chai by shooting Kahane at point-blank range. Nosair is acquitted of Kahane's murder, but convicted of other crimes. In prison, Nosair admits to Kahane's murder. El Sayyid Nosair
97 January 25, 1993 Shooting 2 3 Virginia Langley, Virginia CIA Shooting: Pakistani Mir Qazi (a/k/a Mir Aimal Kansi), outraged by U.S. policy toward Palestinians, opens fire on cars stopped at a traffic signal outside CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He kills 2 and injures 3, then escapes to Pakistan. He is subsequently apprehended, confesses, is tried and executed. Mir Qazi
98 February 26, 1993 Truck bombing 6 1042 New York (state) New York City, New York World Trade Center bombing: Ramzi Yousef, a member of Al Qaeda, masterminds the truck-bombing of the World Trade Center. The bomb is meant to destabilize the foundation of the building, causing it to collapse and destroy surrounding buildings, leading to mass casualties. It failed to do so, but the detonation killed six people and injured more than 1,000.[48][49][50][51] Al Qaeda
99 March 10, 1993 Shooting 1 0 Florida Pensacola, Florida Murder of David Gunn: Army of God member Michael F. Griffin ambushes and shoots gynecologist David Gunn three times in the back outside the Pensacola Women's Medical Services clinic. Before murdering Gunn, Griffin shouts, "Don't kill any more babies!" Michael F. Griffin
100 March 1, 1994 Shooting 1 3 New York (state) New York City, New York Brooklyn Bridge Shooting: Lebanese-born Rashid Baz ambushes and shoots up a van full of Jewish students returning from a visit with Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. One student dies, 3 are injured. Rashid Baz
101 July 29, 1994 Shooting 2 1 Florida Pensacola, Florida Army of God member Rev. Paul Jennings Hill murders gynecologist John Britton and Britton's bodyguard James Barrett with a shotgun at close range, outside the Ladies Center clinic in Pensacola, Florida. Hill admits to the murder, is tried, convicted, and executed by lethal injection. Paul Jennings Hill
102 December 10, 1994 Bombing 1 0 New Jersey North Caldwell, New Jersey Advertising executive Thomas J. Mosser is killed by a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski). Mosser is the second person murdered by Kaczynski. Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)
103 December 30, 1994 Shooting 2 5 Massachusetts Brookline, Massachusetts Anti-abortion activist John C. Salvi III shoots and kills 2 employees and injures 5 others in a rampage attack at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts. Salvi escapes and drives to Norfolk, Virginia, where Army of God (United States) spokesman Rev. Donald Spitz resides. John C. Salvi III
104 December 31, 1994 Shooting 0 0 Virginia Norfolk, Virginia Salvi attacks the Planned Parenthood clinic in Norfolk, Virginia. A security guard returns fire and Salvi flees. Salvi is apprehended shortly after, and has in his possession Army of God (United States) spokesman Donald Spitz's name and unlisted telephone number. John C. Salvi III
105 April 19, 1995 Truck bombing 168 680+ Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoma City bombing: Timothy McVeigh of Lockport, New York and Terry Nichols of Lapeer, Michigan parked a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma which explodes, killing 168 people, including 19 children. McVeigh and Terry Nichols are convicted in the bombing, motivated by their outrage over the FBI's handling of the Waco Siege. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols
106 April 24, 1995 Bombing 1 0 California Sacramento, California Timber industry lobbyist Gilbert P. Murray, is killed in the third and final mailbomb attack by the Unabomber. Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)
107 July 27, 1996 Bombing 1 111 Georgia (U.S. state) Atlanta, Georgia Centennial Olympic Park bombing: Army of God member and adherent of the anti-Semitic and racist Christian Identity movement Eric Robert Rudolph places three pipe bombs in a backpack, which he leaves in busy Centennial Olympic Park. The bomb is discovered by security guard Richard Jewell who raises an alert. One person is killed and 111 others are wounded in the explosion. Rudolph escapes and becomes a fugitive for 10 years. Rudolph's bomb is intended to force the cancellation of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia due to his outrage over legal abortion. Eric Robert Rudolph
108 January 16, 1997 Bombing 0 6 Georgia (U.S. state) Sandy Springs, Georgia Army of God member Eric Robert Rudolph bombs a women's health clinic in Sandy Springs, Georgia. There are two bombs; the first meant to kill people inside the clinic, the second bomb placed in the parking lot and time-delayed to kill first-responders. No one was harmed by the first bomb, but six people were injured by the second.[52] Eric Robert Rudolph
109 February 21, 1997 Bombing 0 5 Georgia (U.S. state) Atlanta, Georgia Otherside Lounge bombing: Army of God member Eric Robert Rudolph bombs the Otherside Lounge, a lesbian bar in Atlanta, Georgia. There are two bombs; the first left on the outdoor patio, the second bomb left in the parking lot, time-delayed to kill first-responders. The initial explosion injures five, the second bomb is discovered and disposed of by the police bomb squad. Rudolph's motive for this bombing was his outrage over the existence of homosexuality.[53] Eric Robert Rudolph
110 February 23, 1997 Shooting 1 (+1) 6 New York (state) New York City, New York 1997 Empire State Building shooting: Palestinian Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, opens fire on tourists from an observation deck atop the Empire State Building. He shoots 7 people, killing 1. He then kills himself.[54] Ali Hassan Abu Kamal
111 July 31, 1997 Police raid, planned suicide bombings 0 3 New York (state) New York City, New York 1997 Brooklyn bombing plot: Two Palestinian illegal immigrants are shot and arrested in a police raid that found two pipe bombs in a Brooklyn apartment. The bombs had been planned for suicide attacks in the New York City Subway the same day, and Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer was sentenced to life for the plot.[55][56][57] Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer
112 January 29, 1998 Bombing 1 1 Alabama Birmingham, Alabama Army of God (United States) member Eric Robert Rudolph bombs a women's clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing 1 and critically injuring another. Eric Robert Rudolph
113 June 7, 1998 Murder 1 0 TexasJasper, Texas Three white men drag James Byrd Jr. to his death behind their truck and leave his body in front of an African-American church. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer, John King
114 June 18, 1999 Arson 0 0 California Sacramento, California Brothers Matthew and Tyler Williams, inspired by the Christian Identity movement and anti-Semitic literature, set fires to Congregation B'nai Israel, Congregation Beth Shalom, and Knesset Israel Torah Center in Sacramento, California. The fires cause more than $1 million in damage.[58][59] Matthew and Tyler Williams
115 July 1, 1999 Shooting 2 0 California Happy Valley, California Murders of Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder: The Williams brothers murder gay couple Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder in Happy Valley, California. Matthew and Tyler Williams
116 July 2, 1999 Arson 0 0 California Sacramento, California The Williams brothers set fire to the Country Club Medical Building in Sacramento County, California, which houses an abortion clinic.[60] Matthew and Tyler Williams
117 July 2–4, 1999: Shootings 2 (+1) 9 Illinois/Indiana Illinois and Indiana 1999 Independence Day weekend shootings: Neo-Nazi World Church of the Creator/Creativity member Benjamin Nathaniel Smith goes on a two-state shooting spree in Indiana and Illinois. Starting on July 2, Smith wounds nine Orthodox Jews in drive-by shootings in Chicago. Smith then shoots and kills former college basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, an African-American man, in Skokie, Illinois. On July 3, Smith travels to Decatur, where he wounds an African-American minister. On July 4, he kills Won-Joon Yoon, a 26-year-old Korean graduate student, in Bloomington, Indiana. Along his route, he shoots at and misses another nine people. He kills himself in a chase with police on July 4. Benjamin Nathaniel Smith
118 August 10, 1999 Shootings 1 5 California Los Angeles, California Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting: Neo-Nazi Aryan Nations member Buford O. Furrow Jr., armed with an Uzi-type sub-machine gun, walks into the lobby of the North Valley Jewish Community Center in Granada Hills, California and begins spraying bullets, wounding five. Furrow then flees, later killing Filipino-American postal worker Joseph Ileto for being a minority and a federal employee.[61] Furrow surrendered himself to the FBI, and pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. Buford O. Furrow Jr (Aryan Nations)
119 December 31, 1999 Arson 0 0 Michigan East Lansing, Michigan Four members of the Earth Liberation Front start a fire in Michigan State University's Agriculture Hall causing $1 million in damage.[62][63] Earth Liberation Front
2000–09
# Date Type Dead Injured Location(s) Details Perpetrator
120 October 10, 2000 Firebombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York 2000 New York terror attack: Three young men of Arab descent hurled crude Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in The Bronx, New York to "strike a blow in the Middle East conflict between Israel and Palestine".[46] Mazin Assi and co-conspirators
121 October 13, 2000 Firebombing 0 0 New York (state) Syracuse, New York Firebombing of Temple Beth El (Syracuse) Ramsi Uthman
122 May 21, 2001 Firebombing 0 0 Washington (state) Seattle, Washington University of Washington firebombing incident: The Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington is burned by the Earth Liberation Front. The replacement building costs $7 million ($12,045,000 today). Earth Liberation Front members pled guilty.[64][65] Earth Liberation Front
123 September 11, 2001 Aircraft hijackings, suicide attacks 2,977 (+19) 6,000+ New York (state) New York City, New York
Virginia Arlington County, Virginia
Pennsylvania Shanksville, Pennsylvania September 11 attacks: Aircraft hijackings and suicide attacks carried out against the United States by the al-Qaeda Network, killing 2,507 civilians, 343 firefighters, 72 law enforcement officers, 55 military personnel, and 19 perpetrators. Four domestic commercial airliners were hijacked simultaneously while flying within the Northeastern United States; two flew directly into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the third into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and the fourth (thanks to the revolt by the passengers and crew members) into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, during a failed attempt to destroy its intended target in Washington, D.C., either the White House or the United States Capitol. The Twin Towers collapsed, and the Pentagon received extensive damage in the western side of the building. Building 7 of the World Trade Center was also destroyed in the attack, though there were no casualties. al-Qaeda
124 December 12, 2001 Attempted Bombing 0 0 CaliforniaCulver City, California 2001 JDL plot in California: Jewish Defense League leader Irv Rubin and member Earl Krugel were charged with planning a series of bomb attacks against the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, and the San Clemente office of Arab-American Congressman Darrell Issa, in the wake of the September 11 attacks.[66] Jewish Defense League
125 September 18 – November 2001 Bioterrorism 5 17 United States 2001 anthrax attacks: Letters tainted with anthrax killed five across the U.S., with politicians and media officials as the apparent targets. On July 31, 2008, Bruce E. Ivins, a top biodefense researcher, committed suicide.[67] On August 6, 2008, the FBI concluded that Ivins was solely responsible for the attacks, and suggested that Ivins wanted to bolster support for a vaccine he helped create and that he targeted two lawmakers because they were Catholics who held pro-choice views.[68] However, subsequent evaluations have found that the FBI's investigation failed to provide any direct evidence linking Ivins to the mailings.[69] Unknown, Bruce Edward Ivins named as perpetrator by FBI
126 December 22, 2001 Bombing 0 1 Florida Miami, Florida 2001 failed shoe bomb attempt: An al-Qaeda operative attempted to detonate a bomb concealed in his shoes while on board a plane from Paris to Miami. He failed to detonate it and was apprehended by passengers and crew.[70] Richard Reid
127 May 8, 2002 Dirty Bomb 0 0 Illinois Chicago, Illinois Abdullah al-Muhajir was arrested for planning to use a radiological bomb.[71] Abdullah al-Muhajir
128 July 4, 2002 Shooting 2 (+1) 4 California Los Angeles, California 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting: Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, killed two Israelis and wounds four others at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport.[72] The FBI concluded this was terrorism, though they did not find evidence linking Hadayet to a terrorist group.[73] Hesham Mohamed Hadayet
129 February 16, 2002 – October 24, 2002 Shootings 17 10 Maryland Montgomery County, Maryland
Virginia Beltway, Virginia
Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Beltway sniper attacks: During three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo shot and killed 10 people and critically injured three others in the cities of Washington D.C., Baltimore, Maryland and the state of Virginia. The pair were also suspected of earlier shootings in Maryland, Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, and Washington. At the 2006 trial of Muhammad, Malvo testified that the aim of the killing spree was to kidnap children for the purpose of extorting money from the government, even though no one was kidnapped.[74] John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo
130 March 19, 2003 Sabotage 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York Iyman Faris was arrested for plotting to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge.[75] Iyman Faris
131 August 2003 Shootings 3 0 West Virginia 2003 West Virginia sniper: Three people were killed in a series of sniper shootings in West Virginia. Shawn Lester was arrested and convicted for the shootings in 2011. Shawn Lester
132 December 8, 2003 Shootout 2 0 (+1) South Carolina Abbeville, South Carolina 2003 Abbeville right-of-way standoff: Two police officers were killed in a shootout with three "sovereign citizens". Arthur, Rita and Steven Bixby
133 March 3, 2006 Vehicle assault 0 9 North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina UNC SUV attack: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar injured 9 when he drove an SUV into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world".[76] Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar
134 March 25, 2006 Shooting 6 (+1) 2 Washington (state) Seattle, Washington Capitol Hill massacre: Kyle Aaron Huff entered a rave afterparty in the southeast part of Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood and opened fire, killing six and wounding two. He then killed himself as he was being confronted by police on the front porch of 2112 E. Republican Street.[77] Kyle Aaron Huff
135 July 28, 2006 Shooting, hostage taking 1 5 Washington (state) Seattle, Washington Seattle Jewish Federation shooting: Naveed Afzal Haq, an American citizen of Pakistani descent, killed one woman and shoots five others at the Jewish Federation building in Seattle. During the shooting, Haq told a 911 dispatcher that he was angry with American foreign policy in the Middle East.[78] Naveed Afzal Haq
136 October 26, 2007 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York A pair of improvised explosive devices were thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder, and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police were investigating the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.[79] Unknown
137 December 5, 2007 Shooting 9 (including the perpetrator) 6 Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska Westroads Mall shooting On December 5, 2007, 19-year-old Robert Hawkins shot and killed eight people and wounded four others in a department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, before shooting himself in the head.[80] Robert Arthur Hawkins
138 March 3, 2008 Arson 0 0 Washington (state) Woodinville, Washington Street of Dreams arson fires: Four luxury woodland houses near Woodinville, Washington were torched, leaving behind a message crediting the Earth Liberation Front.[81] Earth Liberation Front
139 March 6, 2008 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York Times Square bombing: A homemade bomb damaged an Armed Forces Recruiting Office in Times Square.[82] In June 2013, The FBI and New York City police offered a $65,000 reward for information in the case and revealed that ammunition used for the bomb is the same as is used in the Iraq and Afghanistan war zones.[83] On April 15, 2015, the F.B.I increased the award to $115,000 and said they have persons of interest[84] Unknown
140 May 4, 2008 Bombing 0 0 California San Diego, California Multiple pipe bombs exploded at 1:40 am at the Edward J. Schwartz United States Courthouse in San Diego causing "considerable damage" to the entrance and lobby and sending shrapnel two blocks away, but causing no injuries. The FBI is investigating links between this attack and an April 25 explosion at the FedEx building also in San Diego.[85] Rachel Lynn Carlock and Danny Love Sr.
141 July 27, 2008 Shooting 2 6 Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting: 58-year-old Jim David Adkisson opened fire on a Universalist church because he wanted to kill Democrats and Liberals. Jim Adkisson
142 August 24, 2008 Assassination 0 0 Colorado Denver, Colorado Barack Obama assassination plot in Denver: Three men (Cousins Tharin Gartrell, Shawn Adolf and Nathan Johnson) attempted to assassinate then Democratic 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado but were later arrested with narcotics and weapons. Cousins Tharin Gartrell, Shawn Adolf and Nathan Johnson
143 October 22, 2008 Assassination 0 0 Tennessee Brownsville, Tennessee Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee: Two neo-Nazi white power skinheads and members of the Supreme White Alliance (SWA) Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart attempted to assassinate Barack Obama followed by a killing spree of 88 (a reference to the Nazi slogan Heil Hitler) African-Americans of which 14 (a reference to The Fourteen Words) were to be beheaded many of whom were young students at an unidentified school and rob a gun store for additional weapons and commit home robberies. The two would be arrested later with several weapons in possession. Paul Schlesselman and Daniel Cowart
144 April 8, 2009 Cyberattack, sabotage 0 0 United States According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, intruders left malware in power grids, water, and sewage systems that could be activated at a later date. While the attacks which have occurred over a period of time seem to have originated in China and Russia, it is unknown if they are state-sponsored[86] or errors in the computer code.[87][88] Unknown
145 May 25, 2009 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City, New York 17-year-old Kyle Shaw set off a crude explosive device at a Starbucks at East 92nd Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, shattering windows and destroying a bench at the coffee shop. There were no injuries. The attack was a "bizarre tribute" of the movie Fight Club, in an attempt to emulate "Project Mayhem", a series of assaults on corporate America portrayed in the film. Shaw took a plea agreement and was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in November 2010.[89][90] Kyle Shaw
146 May 31, 2009 Assassination, shooting 1 0 Kansas Wichita, Kansas Assassination of George Tiller: Scott Roeder shoots and kills Dr. George Tiller in a Wichita, Kansas church. Roeder, an anti-abortion extremist who believes in justifiable homicide of abortion providers, was arrested soon afterward. Roeder was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2010. Tiller, who performed late-term abortions, had long been a target of anti-abortion extremists; his clinic was firebombed in 1986 and Tiller was shot and wounded five times in 1993 in a shooting attack by Shelley Shannon.[91][92] Scott Roeder
147 June 1, 2009 Shooting 1 1 Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas Arkansas recruiting office shooting: Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad shot and killed one military recruiter and seriously wounded another at a Little Rock, Arkansas Army/Navy Career Center in an act of Islamic extremism. Muhammad, a convert to Islam, had visited Yemen for sixteen months where he spent time in prison and became radicalized. Muhammad, said he was part of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and was upset over the U.S. Army's murder of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan, like the Kandahar massacre and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.[93] Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad
148 June 1, 2009 Shooting 1 1 (+1) Washington, D.C. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting: Elderly neo-Nazi, white supremacist and Holocaust denier James von Brunn, who had previously attempted to kidnap Federal Reserve employees in 1981, shot and killed a black police officer at the United States Holocaust Museum before being wounded by other officers. James Wenneker von Brunn
149 November 5, 2009 Shooting 13 32 (+1) Texas Killeen, Texas 2009 Fort Hood shooting: Nidal Malik Hasan, a US Army Major serving as a Psychiatrist, opens fire at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 29. On August 23, 2013, Hasan was convicted by a Military tribunal. Hasan acted as his own attorney and took responsibility for the attack saying his motive was jihad to fight "illegal and immoral aggression against Muslims".[94] On August 28, Hasan was sentenced to death.[95] Nidal Malik Hasan
150 December 25, 2009 Bombing 0 2 (+1) Michigan Detroit, Michigan Northwest Airlines Flight 253: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 using plastic explosives sewn into his underwear while en route from Amsterdam to Detroit. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
2010–19
# Date Type Dead Injured Location(s) Details Perpetrator
151 February 18, 2010 Suicide attack 1 (+1) 13 Texas Austin, Texas Austin suicide attack: Andrew Joseph Stack III, flying his single-engine plane, flew into the Austin, Texas IRS building; killing himself and one IRS employee and injuring 13 others. Stack left a suicide note online, comparing the IRS to Big Brother from the novel 1984. Joe Stack
152 March 4, 2010 Shooting 0 (+1) 2 Virginia Arlington County, Virginia 2010 Pentagon shooting: John Patrick Bedell shot and wounded two Pentagon police officers at a security checkpoint in the Pentagon station of the Washington Metro rapid transit system in Arlington County, Virginia. John Patrick Bedell
153 May 1, 2010 Bombing 0 0 New York (state) New York City 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt: Faisal Shahzad ignited an explosive in Times Square. The bomb failed to go off, and he was later arrested on a flight leaving for Dubai.[96] Sentenced to life in prison on October 5, 2010, after pleading guilty to a 10-count indictment in June, including attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.[97] Faisal Shahzad
154 May 20, 2010 Shooting 2 (+2) 2 Arkansas West Memphis, Arkansas 2010 West Memphis police shootings: Two West Memphis police officers were killed by a father and son who supported the sovereign citizen movement during a traffic stop. The suspects were later killed by other officers. Jerry and Joseph Kane
155 September 1, 2010 Hostage taking 0 (+1) 0 Maryland Silver Spring, Maryland Discovery Communications headquarters hostage crisis: James J. Lee, armed with two starter pistols and an explosive device, takes three people hostage in the lobby of the Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland before being killed by police. After nearly four hours, Lee was shot dead by police and all the hostages were freed without injury. Lee had earlier posted a manifesto railing against population growth and immigration.[98][99] James J. Lee
156 October 2010 Bombing 0 0 Virginia Farooque Ahmed conspired with law enforcement officials posing as al-Qaeda to bomb Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon City subway station, Crystal City subway station, and Court House subway station.[100] Farooque Ahmed
157 October 29, 2010 Bombing 0 0 Illinois Chicago, Illinois Cargo planes bomb plot: Two plastic explosive bombs were discovered on two cargo planes destined for two synagogues in Chicago. They were discovered at East Midlands Airport and Dubai International Airport while en route.[101] al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
158 October 17, 2010 – November 2, 2010 Bombing and Shooting 0 0 Virginia Northern Virginia military shootings: A series of shootings took place at the five military buildings including the National Museum of the Ma