List of terrorist incidents in 1979

This is a timeline of incidents in 1979 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
March 30	Assassination, bombing	1	0	London, England	Abingdon MP Airey Neave is killed by a bomb in his car planted by the Irish National Liberation Army	INLA	The Troubles
April 22	Massacre	4 (+2 terrorists)		Nahariya, Israel	Nahariya massacre: Four Palestine Liberation Front militants kill four Israeli civilians, including two young children.	Palestine Liberation Front	Israel-Palestine conflict
May 1	Bombing	0	0	Oslo, Norway	A man named Petter Kristian Kyvik threw a bomb against Academic 1st May storefronts 1. May parade in Oslo. The Bomb object was thrown when the train passed the corner of University Street and Stortingsgaten. Erik Blücher was screened for participating, but the charges was later dropped against Blucher.	Petter Kristian Kyvik
June 20	Hijacking	0	0	Chicago, United States	Serbian nationalist Nikola Kavaja hijacks American Airlines Flight 293 with the intentions of crashing it into the headquarters of the Yugoslav Communist Party, but was persuaded out of doing so by his lawyer.	Nikola Kavaja
July 28	Bombings	7	100+	Madrid, Spain	ETA-pm carries out a series of coordinated bombings targeting Barajas Airport, Atocha station and Chamartín station.	ETA-pm	Basque conflict
August 27	Bombing, assassination	4	6	Mullaghmore, Ireland	Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and three others are killed by a bomb that was planted on Mountbatten's boat.	PIRA	The Troubles
August 27	Bombings, shooting	19	7	Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland	The Provisional IRA ambushes a British Army convoy, detonating two roadside bombs and firing on the soldiers after the blasts. The attack was the deadliest on the British Army during The Troubles	PIRA	The Troubles
November 15	Attempted bombing	0	12	United States	A bomb that was planted on American Airlines Flight 444 only partially explodes and filled the passenger's cabin with smoke, injuring twelve people through smoke inhalation. Had the bomb properly detonated, it would have destroyed the plane. The attack was the catalyst for the Unabomber case, though it was not the Unabomber's first attack.	Unabomber
November 20 - December 4	Hostage-taking	127 (+117 terrorists)	450+	Mecca, Saudi Arabia	Hundreds of militants from Wahabi group Ikhwan seized the Masjid al-Haram, Islam's holiest site, and demanded the overthrow of the House of Saud and institution of an Islamic state. The two week siege resulted in the deaths of about 250 people and injury of hundreds more.	Ikhwan

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References