List of terrorist incidents in 1975

This is a timeline of incidents in 1975 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
January 24	Bombing	4	53	New York City, United States	At 1:29 p.m., a bomb explodes at the historic Fraunces Tavern at the corner of Pearl and Broad streets in the Financial District, Manhattan. The Puerto Rican nationalist group Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN) claimed responsibility in message found in a nearby telephone booth. Four people were killed (three of them immediately and a fourth at a hospital) and 53 others were injured.[1][2]	FALN
January 28	Bombings	0	0	Washington and Oakland, United States	A bomb explodes at the Vietnam section of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. A second bomb was planted at the Department of Defense Supply Agency building in Oakland, California, but fails to detonate. The extremist Weather Underground group was responsible for both attacks.[3][4]	Weather Underground
February 26	Shooting	1	0	London, United Kingdom	Police Constable Stephen Tibble, 22, of the London Metropolitan Police Service, was fatally shot three times at point-blank range by Liam Quinn, a Provisional Irish Republican Army gunman escaping from an IRA bomb factory in Baron's Court, West London. Quinn fled to San Francisco and was extradited to face trial in Britain thirteen years later. Sentenced to life with a recommended minimum sentence of 30 years in 1988, Quinn was freed in April 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement.[5]	Liam Quinn PIRA	The Troubles
March 1	Bombing	26	60	Nairobi, Kenya	An explosion aboard a Nairobi-Mombasa regular route bus in Nairobi kills 26 and injures another 60. The Kenyan People Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the blast.	Kenyan People Liberation Front
March 2	Bombings	0	0	Toulouse and Lyon, France	Air Algérie's offices in Toulouse and Lyons were bombed by the Charles Martel Group. No one was killed or injured in either attack.[6]	Charles Martel Group
March 3	Plot	0	0	The Netherlands	Two Moluccan youths were arrested after weapons were discovered in their car. It was later discovered they intended on kidnapping Queen Juliana of the Netherlands along several other Moluccans.	Moluccans
March 4–5	Shooting, hostage-taking	11 (+7 terrorists)		Tel Aviv, Israel	In the Savoy Operation, Palestine Liberation Organization gunmen from Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel, eventually killing eight hostages and three IDF soldiers, and wounding eleven hostages.[7]	PLO	Israel-Palestine conflict
April 19	Bombing	0	5+	* New York City, United States	FALN sets off four bombs within a forty-minute period in Manhattan, New York, injuring at least five people.	FALN
April 24	Hostage-taking	2 (+2 terrorists)	10 (+4 terrorists)	Stockholm, Sweden	West German embassy siege: In Stockholm, Sweden, six Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof) terrorists hold 11 people (including the German ambassador to Sweden) hostage for almost 12 hours in the West German embassy. During the siege, two of the hostages (military attaché Colonel Andreas von Mirbach and economics attaché Heinz Hallagaart) were killed by faction members. Shortly before midnight on April 24, dynamite exploded and set the building on fire. The German ambassador and the other nine hostages escaped from the embassy, mostly with only light injuries.[8]	Red Army Faction
June 1	Hostage-taking	3 (+4 terrorists)		Kfar Yuval, Israel	Kfar Yuval hostage crisis	Arab Liberation Front	Israel-Palestine conflict
July 4	Bombing	15	77	Jerusalem, Israel	A bomb detonates in Zion Square killing 13 people and wounding 72.[9] The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs states the death toll at 14 with 80 injured.[10]	PLO	Israel-Palestine conflict
July 31	Shooting, bombing	3 (+2 terrorists)	2	County Down, United Kingdom	Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force attempt to plant a bomb on the tourbus of popular Irish band Miami Showband at a bogus military checkpoint. The bomb exploded prematurely and killed two UVF members. Other UVF members than opened fire killing three band members and injuring two others.	Ulster Volunteer Force	The Troubles
August 5	Hostage-taking	0	0	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Five Japanese Red Army members took 53 hostages at the American Insurance Association in Kuala Lumpur. The siege ended after five other JRA members were released from prison.	Japanese Red Army
August 12	Shooting, bombing	5	50+	Belfast, United Kingdom	Members of the Provisional IRA open fire and bomb a bar in Belfast that was frequented by Ulster Volunteer Force members. 1 UVF member and four civilians were killed.	PIRA	The Troubles
August 27	Bombing	0	33	Caterham, United Kingdom	Bombing of the Caterham Arms public house by the Provisional IRA.	PIRA	The Troubles
September 5	Assassination attempt	0	0	Sacramento, United States	Former Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford due to his failure to protect ATWA. Her gun failed to fire and she was arrested.	Lynette Fromme
September 22	Assassination attempt	0	1	San Francisco, United States	Sarah Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Gerald Ford in San Francisco, California. The attempt fails when a bystander grabs her arm and deflects the shot. Moore has stated the motive was to create chaos to bring "the winds of change" because the U.S. government had declared war on the left wing.[11][12]	Sarah Jane Moore
October 6	Attempted assassination	0	2	Rome, Italy	Attempted to assassinate Bernardo Leighton by the Chilean secret police and National Vanguard. Leighton and his wife were seriously injured.	National Vanguard DINA
November 18	Bombing	2	23	London, United Kingdom	Bombing of Walton's Restaurant in the Chelsea neighborhood of London by the Provisional IRA.	PIRA	The Troubles
November 22	Ambush	3	1	County Armagh, United Kingdom	Members of the Provisional IRA attack British soldiers near the Northern Ireland-Republic of Ireland border, killing three and wounding one.	PIRA	The Troubles
December 2–14	Hostage-taking	3		Wijster, The Netherlands	Seven Moluccan youths hijack a train in hopes of forcing the Dutch government to recognize the Republic of South Maluku as an independent state. They kill three hostages before surrendering.	Free South Moluccan Youths
December 4–19	Hostage-taking	1 (indirect)		Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Seven Moluccan youths take dozens of hostages at the Indonesian Consulate in Amsterdam. One hostage died attempting to escape by climbing down a rope along the side of the building.	Free South Moluccan Youths
December 6–12	Hostage-taking, siege	0	0	London, United Kingdom	Four members of the Provisional IRA take two people hostage in a flat in London for six days before surrendering.	PIRA	The Troubles
December 21–22	Hostage-taking, siege	3		Austria	Carlos the Jackal and his rebels attack OPEC headquarters in Vienna and take over 60 hostages - mostly they were OPEC countries' leaders. On December 22, the hostages and rebels are transported in a DC-9 to Algiers where 30 hostages were freed; the plane was then flown to Tripoli, Libya, where more hostages were freed before flying back to Algiers where the remaining hostages were freed and the rebels were granted asylum.	Arm of the Arab Revolution
December 23	Shooting	1		Athens, Greece	U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Station Chief Richard Welch was shot dead outside his home in Athens by Marxist terrorist group Revolutionary Organization 17 November. Welch's murder led to the passage of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, making it illegal to reveal the name of an agent who has a covert relationship with an American intelligence organization.	Revolutionary Organization 17 November
December 29	Bombing	11	75	New York City, United States	1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing: At 6:30 p.m., an explosion occurs at the lower-level TWA and Delta Air Lines baggage claim area at the La Guardia Airport, in Queens, New York, killing 11 and injuring more than 75. The blast set off a fire, which firefighters managed to suppress. The physical damage was estimated at $750,000. An investigation revealed that about 25 sticks (12.5 pounds) of dynamite were placed in a parcel locker between two luggage carousels. The crime remains unsolved today, although Croatian nationalists are believed to be the perpetrators.[13]	Unknown

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References