On this day in 2001, a suicide bomber claimed by 3 separate Palestinian terrorist groups detonated a device outside a Tel Aviv disco killing 21 people.
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In May 1979, the ‘Unabomber’ sent his first parcel bomb to a university professor: a security guard was slightly injured when it exploded.
An ISIS suicide bomber killed himself outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017, killing 22 people, many of them children.
On this day in 1983, a violent group tied to the African National Congress detonated a car bomb outside the Pretoria South African Air Force HQ killing 16.
On this day in 2012, a 69-year old man exploded a bomb in a garbage bin at a school in the Italian city of Brindisi killing a 16-yr old girl and wounding 9.
The May 1974 car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan demonstrated that the IRA was not the only violent actor: the UVF was equally violent.
One of the rare successful Al Qaeda suicide bombings in Morocco occurred in May 2003: 41 people were killed and 100 injured.
On this day in 2018, a rare terrorist attack occurred when three men killed one person and wounded two in a bomb/knife assault against a Shia mosque.
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Bombings in Myanmar (May 7, 2005)
Two bombs exploded at a shopping mall in the Myanmar capital killing 11 and wounding 130 in an attack blamed on Karen ethnic group.
A labour protest in Chicago in 1886 descended into a riot when an anarchist lobbed a bomb at police called out to re-establish order.