* 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.

* 1943 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.

Lübecker Totentanz by Bernt Notke ( around 1463, destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942 ).

It disappeared after a British bombing raid destroyed the library at Elbing but before then facsimiles had been made.

In 1943 it was destroyed in a bombing raid.

* 1941 – The German Luftwaffe launch a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby

* 1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.

* 1944 – Allied bombing raid on Nuremberg.

The RAF bombing raid on the night of 16 January 1944, destroyed much of the city.

* 1944 – World War II: Bombing of Tokyo – The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.

* 1944 – World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11, 500.

His family moved to the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang ( nestled in the Chiemgau Alps ), after the house next to theirs was destroyed during a bombing raid at the close of World War II.

* June 13 – WWI: The first major German bombing raid on London leaves 162 dead and 432 injured.

* April 25 – 26 – WWII: Last major strategic bombing raid by RAF Bomber Command, the destruction of the oil refinery at Tønsberg in southern Norway by 107 Avro Lancasters.

** Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943: The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone.

* December 2 – A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile, causin numerous fatalities ( though the exact death toll is unresolved, as the bombing raid itself causes hundreds of deaths too ).

* December 3 – Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic " Orchestrated Hell " broadcast over CBS Radio, describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.

** WWII: " Second Great Fire of London " – Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1, 500 fires.

* July 24 – Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at Kang Chi are targeted by antiaircraft missiles, in the first such attack against American planes in the war.

* Operation Transom, a major bombing raid

This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.

* 2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.

He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks that finally caused the US and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying themselves with Massoud's forces.

* 1984 – " We begin bombing in five minutes "-United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

Vicious air bombings were targeted on Alicante during the three years of civil conflict, most notably the bombing by the Italian Aviazione Legionaria of the Mercado de Abastos in 25 May 1938 in which more than 300 civilians perished.

With United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, the bombing campaign ended on June 10, 1999.

Tactical bombing, aimed at enemy military units and installations, is typically assigned to smaller aircraft operating at shorter ranges, typically along the troops on the ground or sea.

With advances in aircraft design and equipment, they were joined by larger multi-engined biplane aircraft on both sides for long range strategic bombing especially by night.

The Bulgarian government declared a token war on the United Kingdom and the United States near the end of 1941, an act which resulted in the bombing of Sofia and other Bulgarian cities by Allied aircraft.

* Bristol Blitz, the German bombing raids on Bristol, England in 1940 and 1941

During the war, the Condor Legion undertook the bombing of Guernica which had a tremendous psychological effect on the populations of Europe.

In the opening phase of an operation, air forces sought to gain superiority over enemy air forces by attacking aircraft on the ground, bombing their airfields, and seeking to destroy them in the air.

When the Luftwaffe began bombing Moscow, Pasternak immediately began to serve as a fire warden on the roof of the writer's building on Lavrushinski Street.

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

Embittered Bacardi helmsman José Pepín Bosch bought a surplus B-26 bomber with the hopes of bombing Cuban oil refineries ( the bold plan was foiled when a picture of the bomber appeared on the front page of The New York Times ).

Consequently, the United States could find itself bombing operational missiles were the blockade to fail to force Khrushchev to remove the missiles already on the island.

Subsequently, B-52G bombers flew more than 200 17-hour bombing missions over 44 days and dropped more than of bombs on Iraqi forces in Iraq and Kuwait.

B-1 Lancer | B-1B Lancer Bombers on Diego Garcia, November, 2001, during the bombing campaign in Afghanistan

Large-scale air raids in World War II, including the preliminary bombing during Operation Market Garden to aid the US 101st Airborne Division paratroopers in securing the bridges in and around the town on 18 September 1944, destroyed large parts of the city.

* 1974 – M62 coach bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) explodes a bomb on a bus carrying off-duty British Armed Forces personnel in Yorkshire, England.

For almost four hours bombs rained down on Gernika in an " experiment " for the blitzkrieg tactics and bombing of civilians seen in later wars.