During his visit to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila in 1996, he was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge where a bomb had been planted.

The motorcade was re-routed and the US agents later discovered a bomb planted under the bridge.

At the same time as the Enniskillen bombing, the IRA also planted a bomb 20 miles away in Tullyhommon, near Pettigo, where the Boys ' Brigade and the Girls ' Brigade were due to participate in a Remembrance Day service.

In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), who planted a bomb in his yacht, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.

* 1966 – A bomb planted by Irish Republicans destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.

On 28 August 1975 the Montoneros, in a gesture of solidarity with the ERP, planted a bomb in a culvert at the Tucumán air base airstrip.

He was later that year made to disappear along with his father Hugo and mother Blanca and sister Betina and brother Sergio in revenge for a bomb that he planted in the detention center that failed to explode.

On 15 December, another Montoneros bomb planted in a Defense Ministry movie hall killed at least 14 and injured 30 officers and their families.

* 1976 – A group of Croatian nationalists planted a bomb in a coin locker at Grand Central Terminal.

** A pipe bomb planted by George Metesky explodes at the Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, injuring 6 people.

** A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing 3 members of the organization.

* March 8 – A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than eighty people, injuring two hundred.

Mountbatten and members of his family were killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

On 24 May 1990, in Oakland, California, Bari and Darryl Cherney were blown up by a bomb planted in their vehicle.

The time bomb was planted in an alleyway on Clanbrassil Street, the town's main shopping street.

Holland is killed by a bomb planted by agents of the mysterious Mr. E ( Nathan Ellery ), who wants the formula.

The terrorist bomb responsible for killing 113 civilians was planted by the Tamil Tigers separatist movement and was not targeted towards the touring New Zealand cricket team.

On 8 March 1966, a group of ex-Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) volunteers planted a bomb that destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.

Birmingham is also known for a bombing which occurred later that year, in which four black girls were killed by a bomb planted at the 16th Street Baptist Church.

More recently, former businessman John Perkins alleges in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, that Torrijos was assassinated by American interests, who had a bomb planted aboard his aircraft ( by CIA organized operatives ).

Irving also noted internal inconsistencies in the supposed Hitler diaries, such as a diary entry for 20 July 1944, which would have been unlikely given that Hitler's right hand had been badly burned by the bomb planted in his headquarters by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg earlier that day.

He planted a failed bomb on a 26 bus, which misfired later on the Hackney Road on 21 July 2005.

By the early 1990s, a new leadership had emerged on the Shankill Road following the killing of powerful South Belfast Brigadier and the UDA's Deputy Commander John McMichael in 1987 by a booby-trap car bomb planted by the IRA ; less than three months later, the Supreme Commander Andy Tyrie resigned after an attempt was made on his life.

He stole the Cosmic Cube after taking control of its Keeper's mind with a device he planted while shaking hands, and revealed that he gave Zemo the order to steal the bomb plane that led to Bucky's death.

The Irgun planted a bomb in the basement of the main building of the hotel, under the wing which housed the Mandate Secretariat and a few offices of the British military headquarters.

After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.

I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming, `` O Gogol, O Chekhov, O Thackeray and Dickens, what would you have made of a bomb shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks, a birdbath, and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps ''??

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

* 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki, Japan is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar.

As Alfonso XIII and Ena were returning from the wedding, they narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by Mateu Morral who threw a bomb from a high window ; instead, the bomb explosion killed or injured many bystanders and members of the Royal procession.

* 1958 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngo Dinh Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

* 1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.

Gromley said he was told the details of the bomb plot by Louis Merletti, a former director of the Secret Service.

The first use of an air-dropped bomb was carried out by the Italians, initially by Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti, in their 1911 war for Libya.

However, the palace chapel was destroyed by a German bomb in World War II ; the Queen's Gallery was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the Royal Collection.

The French ships suffered severe damage: two ships of the line and two frigates were destroyed ( as well as a bomb vessel scuttled by its crew ), and three other captured ships were too battered to ever sail again.

Although completed in 1938, it was hit by a bomb in 1940 and remained semi-derelict for 22 years, before reopening in 1962.

The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the paratroopers had reacted to gun and nail bomb attacks from suspected IRA members.

A hydrogen bomb — which produced nuclear fusion instead of nuclear fission — was first tested by the United States in November 1952 and the Soviet Union in August 1953.

In December 1967 Washington Post journalist Stanley Karnow was told by Sihanouk that if the US wanted to bomb the Vietnamese communist sanctuaries, he would not object, unless Cambodians were killed.

Inspired by these experiments, the US Army developed a similar flying bomb called the Kettering Bug.

The V-1, often referred to as flying bomb, contained a gyroscopic guidance system and was propelled by a simple pulse-jet engine, the sound of which gave it the nickname of " buzz bomb ".

This led to the creation of the atomic bomb by the United States, which it used in World War II in 1945.

On 16 May 2003, 33 civilians were killed and more than 100 people were injured when Casablanca was hit by a multiple suicide bomb attack carried out by Moroccans and claimed by some to have been linked to al-Qaeda.