List of terrorist incidents, 1977
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1977.
USSR, January 8: A bomb goes off on a Moscow Metro train as it rolls into Kurskaya station. Seven die and 33 are seriously injured in the incident, attributed to Armenian terrorists.[1]
Spain, January 27: Atocha massacre in Spain. Far-right members kill five in a shooting.
United States, March 9: Three buildings in Washington, DC, are seized by members of the militant African-American Muslim Hanafi sect and over 100 hostages taken. One bystander is shot and killed, and Washington city councilman Marion Barry is shot in the chest. After a two-day standoff all hostages are released from the District Building (city hall), B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the Islamic Center.
West Germany, April 7: Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.
Netherlands, May 23: School hostage crisis in the Netherlands. RMS activists kept 105 children and five teachers hostage in a school in Smilde.
United Kingdom, June 2: Three members of a RUC Police Force mobile patrol are shot and killed by IRA snipers near Ardboe, County Tyrone. Part of ongoing attacks on Police and Army.- Netherlands, June 11: Train hostage crisis in the Netherlands. Near Groningen, a passenger train was hijacked by members of the RMS, 55 passengers were kept hostage. In an army attack six hijackers and two passengers were killed.
- West Germany, July 30: Jürgen Ponto, then head of the Dresdner Bank, was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.
- United States, August 3: Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN in Manhattan, New York, bombs the offices of Mobil and a building containing Defense Department security personal killing one and injuring eight in the Mobil offices. In addition the group warned that bombs were located in thirteen other buildings, including the Empire State Building and the World Trade Center resulting in the evacuation of one hundred thousand. Five days later a bomb attributed to the group was found in the AMEX building.[2]
- West Germany, September 5: Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction. He was murdered by the Red Army Faction on October 19, 1977.
- West Germany, October 13: Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four PFLP to Mogadishu; it was later freed by GSG 9 commando group.
France, December 19: A bomb destroyed luxury food shop Fauchon in Paris.
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[edit] References
- ^ Oberg, James E. Uncovering Soviet Disasters: Exploring the Limits of Glasnost. New York: Random House, 1988: 104.
- ^ National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism: August 3, 1977, Terrorism Incidents & Significant Dates
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