On this day in 1972, a bomb exploded at the Cuban trade offices in Montreal killing the consular diplomat Sergio Pérez Castillo and wounding seven others.
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On this day in 1998, a bomb exploded outside the only synagogue in the Latvian capital of Riga causing an estimated $60,000 in damage but no injuries.
On this day in 2004, 2005 and 2009 Islamist terrorists in southern Thailand carried out three separate attacks, wounding dozens.
On this day in 1993 two bombs planted in litter bins on a busy shopping street in Warrington detonated within minutes of each other, killing two children.
On this day in 1999 52 people were killed and 168 wounded in a bombing at a crowded market in Vladkavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia.
On this day in 1984 leftist terrorists belonging to the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front blew up two trains in El Salvador, killing 18 people
On this day in 2004 the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines claimed the bombing of the ‘SuperFerry 14’ killing 116.
On this day in 1948 three bombs detonated in a shopping district in Jerusalem, killing as many as 58 Jewish civilians and wounding 140 to 200 others
On this day in 2008 unidentified individuals tossed a bomb into a theatre in a town near the Indian city of Mumbai: thankfully no one was killed
On this day in 1978 a garbage truck compactor set off a bomb that had been placed in a bin immediately outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney