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August 31, 2004: Suicide bombing at Moscow metro

On this day in 2004, a female Islambouli Brigades suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside a Moscow metro killing ten.

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August 30, 1974: The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters bombing

On this day in 1974, a leftist/anarchist Japanese terrorist group bombed Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Tokyo for their support to the US in the Vietnam War.

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August 29, 1984: How a cult used salad bars to orchestrate a bioterror attack in Oregon

On this day in 1984, an obscure Indian cult relocated to Oregon carried out a massive salmonella poisoning attack in 1984 in which almost 800 people got sick.

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August 28, 1995: Sarajevo Markale market massacre

On this day in 1995, a mortar launched by the Army of the Republika Srpska at a market in Sarajevo killed 43 civilians and wounded another 84.

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August 27, 1979: Assassination of Lord Mountbatten

On this day in 1979, The Provisional IRA executed a spectacular terrorist attack when they bombed the boat of Queen Elizabeth’s cousin Lord Mountbatten.

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August 26, 1896: Armenians occupy Ottoman Bank in Istanbul to bring attention to the Hamidian massacres

On this day in 1896, Armenian terrorists occupied a bank in Istanbul to bring attention to the Ottoman Empire’s slaughter of Armenian civilians in the late 19th century.

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August 25, 2017: Rohingya Muslim terrorists in Myanmar killed dozens of Hindu civilians

On this day in 0217, Muslim terrorists from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) massacred 100 Hindu civilians in NW Myanmar.

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August 24, 1970: Bombing of university math faculty in Wisconsin

On this day in 1970, a massive car bomb detonated by anti-Vietnam War protesters killed a University of Wisconsin professor.

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Murder of 17-year old woman in West Bank

On this day in 2019, Israeli forces arrested three members of the terrorist group PFLP for the murder of a 17-year old woman hiking with her father and brother in the West Bank.

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My review of the Know Your History Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War trailer

What can the latest Call of Duty Cold War trailer tell us about the threats we face today, ranging from foreign espionage to foreign interference to terrorism?