List of terrorist incidents, 1981
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The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1981.
May 16: One dead in an explosion in the toilets at the Pan Am terminal at New York's JFK airport. The bombing is claimed by the Puerto Rican Resistance Army.[1]
June 10: Eight IRA prisoners shoot their way out of the Crumlin Road Jail in Belfast, using 3 handguns they had smuggled in.
August 29: Machine gun and grenade attack on the Stadttempel synagogue in Vienna, killing two people and wounding 23. Marwan Hasan and Hesham Mohammed Rajeh were convicted.
October 6: Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad..svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png)
October 20: Attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, killing three and wounding sixty.
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- ^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Terrorism Chronology
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