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List of Some Notable Incidents Involving Time Bombs

Year	Event	Location	Perpetrator(s)	Deaths	Injuries	Comments
1871	Attack on the Mosel (ship)	Bremerhaven	Alexander Keith, Jr.	80	unkn.	bomb set for insurance fraud purposes; detonated prematurely
1910	Los Angeles Times bombing	Los Angeles	John J. McNamara and James B. McNamara	21	100	Union-related action
1916	Preparedness Day Bombing	San Francisco	Labor leaders	10	40	Isolationist political action
1920	Wall Street bombing	New York City	Anarchists (suspected)	38	400	Followed other bombings in 1919
1939	Bürgerbräukeller	Munich	Georg Elser	7	63	Assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler
1942	St Nazaire Raid	St Nazaire, France (wartime)	Royal Navy, British Commandos	590	unkn.	To damage port facilities being used by enemy forces
1972	Aldershot Bombing	Aldershot, UK	IRA	7	18	A 280lb time bomb in a car
1974	M62 Coach Bombing	West Yorkshire	IRA	12	38	Continuing anti-British campaign
1974	Birmingham pub bombings	Birmingham, UK	IRA (suspected)	21	182	Continuing anti-British campaign
1974	Guildford pub bombings	Guildford, UK	IRA	5	65	Targeted against Army personnel
1977	Lucona sinking	Indian Ocean	Udo Proksch	6	0	Attempted insurance fraud
1984	Brighton hotel bombing	Brighton, UK	IRA	5	31	Attempt to assassinate PM Margaret Thatcher
1987	Korean Air Flight 858	Andaman Sea	North Korea	115 (all)	0	State terrorism against South Korea
1987	Remembrance Day bombing	Enniskillen, Northern Ireland	IRA	12	63	Continuing anti-British campaign
1988	Pan Am flight 103	Above Lockerbie, Scotland	Libya	270	0	Reprisal against UK & US
1989	Deal barracks bombing	Deal, Kent, UK	IRA	11	21	Targeted against military personnel
1994	Philippine Airlines Flight 434	Between Cebu and Tokyo	Ramzi Yousef	1	10	Foiled attempt.
1998	Omagh bombing	Omagh, Northern Ireland	IRA	29	220	Worst single incident loss of life during the anti-British campaign.
1999	Russian apartment bombings	Buynaksk Moscow Volgodonsk	unkn.	293	651	4 bombs over 4 days; purpose unknown.
2006	Moscow market bombing	Moscow	Racialist organization	13	46	Racially motivated attack

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