Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

xxx • CHRONOLOGYpay this ransom, Stone’s sponsoring organization raises and pays therequired sum.1910 1 October: During labor strike, the office building of the antiunionLos Angeles Times is dynamited and erupts into flames due tosevered gas lines. At least 20 perish and another 20 are disabled fromthe explosion and resulting fire.1914 28 June: Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand is assassinatedby a Serbian terrorist in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, setting WorldWar I in motion.1916 22 July: A bomb set off during San Francisco’s Preparedness Daykills 10 and wounds 40. Radical antiwar labor activists are blamed for thebombing due to prior antiparade pamphlet warning of “direct action.”1920 16 September: TNT bomb in parked horse-drawn wagonexplodes on Wall Street across from Morgan House, killing 35 andinjuring hun dreds. Pro-Bolshevik or anarchist terrorists are believedresponsible but never apprehended.1931 21–23 February: First recorded hijacking of an airplane: rebelsoldiers in Peru force two American pilots to fly them about and to droppropaganda leaflets over Lima.1938 9–10 November: German Nazis undertake Kristallnacht terroragainst German Jews, smashing shop windows of Jewish-owned businessesand burning synagogues. This marks the beginning of genocidalpolicy against Jews as part of Nazi state terror lasting until the collapseof the Third Reich in May 1945.1939 January–1940 February Irish Republican Army carries outfirst major bombing campaign within England proper with more than50 bombings of public places within a 13-month period.1944 6 November: Jewish terror group Lehi assassinates LordMoyne, the British minister for Middle Eastern affairs, in Cairo.1946 11 March: The Fedayan-i Islam, an Iranian Islamic fundamentalistgroup, initiates 10-year-long assassination campaign against westernizedIranian intellectuals and political leaders by murdering AhmadKasravi, prominent anti-Shi’ite secularist intellectual and historian.