List of terrorist incidents, 1982

The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1982.

*flagicon|France March 29: A bomb on board the Paris-Toulouse train kills five and injures 27 people. Carlos assumed to be responsible.
*flagicon|United Kingdom July 20: The Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings in London by the IRA kill eleven members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets.
*flagicon|Turkey August 7: A bomb is set off in Ankara airport, killing nine people and wounding 70. Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia claims responsibility.
*flagicon|France August 9: Rue des Rosiers, Paris gunning and bombing of Goldenberg restaurant: six killed and 22 wounded
*flagicon|USA August 11: A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo to Honolulu, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.
*flagicon|Lebanon September 14: Assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel and twenty-five others in a car explosion at the Kataeb headquarters.
*flagicon|Belgium September 18: Four people are wounded when a synagogue in Brussels is attacked in a "shoot and run" incident. Guards were taken by surprise and the gunman, believed to be from the Abu Nidal Organization, escaped.
*flagicon|Italy October 9: Attack with grenades and machine guns on the central synagogue in Rome, Italy. A child dies, ten people are injured.
*flagicon|Canada October 14: Direct Action bombs a Litton Industries factory.
*flagicon|United Kingdom November 30: A group called the Animal Rights Militia send a letter bomb to Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street, London the device exploded injuring one person. [BBC: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/30/newsid_2525000/2525525.stm Animal activists bomb Downing Street] , "On this day", November 30, 1982]
*flagicon|United Kingdom December 6: Ballykelly disco bombing in which Irish National Liberation Army kills seventeen soldiers and civilians in Northern Ireland.
*flagicon|United States December 31: FALN a Puerto Rican separatist group explodes bombs outside of the 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, FBI Headquarters and a United States courthouse in Brooklyn. Three NYPD police officers are blinded with one officer losing both eyes. All 3 officers sustained other serious injuries trying to diffuse a second Federal Plaza bomb. [ [http://www.nypost.com/seven/01012008/news/regionalnews/three_cops_honored_for_82_bomb_heroics_24842.htm Three Cops honored For '82 Bomb Heroics New York Post January 1, 2008] ] , [ [http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/printedition/tuesday/news/ny-nybomb01vr5521973jan01,0,3006409.story 3 cops' fateful New Year's Eve Newsday January 1, 2008] ]

ee also

*List of terrorist incidents

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