Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

CHRONOLOGY • xxxi22 July: Jewish terror group Irgun bombs British administrativeheadquarters located in the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, killing 91people.1948 30 January: Mohandas K. Gandhi is killed by a Hindu extremist.9 April: Jewish terror groups Irgun and Lehi massacre Arab villagersof Deir Yassin, located on Jerusalem-–Tel Aviv road. News ofmassacre creates panic among other Palestinians, who flee the formerMandate of Pales tine at onset of first Arab-Israeli war.1949 7 May: Philippines Airlines flight from Daet to Manila isbombed, killing all three aboard. This is the first known instance of anin-flight bombing of an aircraft.1950 1 November: Puerto Rican nationalists plotting to assassinateU.S. President Harry Truman exchange gunfire with security guards atBlair House, Washington, D.C.1952 September: Mau Mau insurgency erupts in Kenya, lasting untilOctober 1956.1954 1 March: Four Puerto Rican nationalists open fire on U.S.House of Representatives from visitors’ gallery, wounding five representatives.All four are captured by security guards.1955 20 August: Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) terroristsundertake wholesale slaughter of 37 European men, women, and childrenin Philippeville massacre.1960 20 March: South African police massacre 69 black civil rightsdemonstrators in Sharpeville incident, which moves the African NationalCon gress to abandon its policy of nonviolence.1963 15 September: The all-black 16th Street Baptist Church of Birmingham,Alabama, is bombed by the United Klans of America, killingfour young girls. Birmingham experiences more than 50 antiblackbombings between 1947 and 1965 believed to be the work of the UnitedKlans of America.1967 10 October: Ernesto “Che” Guevara, guerrilla leader and authorof Guerrilla Warfare, is captured and executed by U.S.-trained Boliviananti-insurgency forces.