TERROR IN OKLAHOMA CITY : Bombings in U.S. History

Some bombings in the United States:

* Feb. 26, 1993: A bomb in a van in a parking garage under New York’s World Trade Center kills six, injures more than 1,000 and cripples the twin 110-story towers. Four Muslims are convicted and sentenced to 240 years in prison each. A fifth man, the alleged mastermind, was captured in February and awaits trial.

* Nov. 7, 1983: A bomb blows a hole in a wall outside the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington. No one is hurt. Two leftist radicals plead guilty.

* May 16, 1981: A bomb explodes in a men’s bathroom at the Pan Am terminal at New York’s Kennedy Airport, killing a man. A group calling itself the Puerto Rican Armed Resistance claims responsibility. No arrests are made.

* Dec. 29, 1975: A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at the TWA terminal at New York’s La Guardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Palestinian, Puerto Rican and Croatian groups are suspected, but no arrests are made.

* Jan. 24, 1975: A bomb goes off at historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City, killing four people. It was one of 49 bombings attributed to the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN between 1974 and 1977 in New York.

* Jan. 27, 1972: A bomb wrecks the New York City office of impresario Sol Hurok, who had been booking Soviet artists. One person is killed and nine are injured, Hurok among them. A caller claiming to represent Soviet Jews claims responsibility, but no arrests are made.

* Aug. 24, 1970: A bomb planted by anti-war activists explodes at the University of Wisconsin’s Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher. Three people are convicted. A fourth suspect is never found.

* March 6, 1970: Three members of the revolutionary Weather Underground accidentally blow themselves up in their townhouse in New York City’s Greenwich Village while making bombs.

* 1951-56: George Metesky, a former Consolidated Edison employee with a grudge against the company, sets off a series of blasts at New York landmarks, including Grand Central station and Radio City Music Hall. No one is killed. Known as The Mad Bomber, Metesky spends 16 years in a mental hospital.

* May 18, 1927: Forty-five people--38 of them children--are killed when a school district treasurer, Andrew Kehoe, lines the Bath Consolidated School near Lansing, Mich., with hundreds of pounds of dynamite and blows it up. Investigators say Kehoe, who also died in the blast, thought he would lose his farm because he couldn’t pay property taxes used to build the school.

* Sept. 16, 1920: A bomb explodes in New York City’s Wall Street area, killing 40 and injuring hundreds. Authorities conclude that it was the work of “anarchists” and come up with a list of suspects, but all flee to Russia.

* Oct. 1, 1910: The Los Angeles Times building is dynamited during a labor dispute, killing 20 people. Two leaders of the ironworkers union plead guilty.

* May 4, 1886: A bomb blast during a labor rally at Chicago’s Haymarket Square kills 11 people, including seven police officers, and injures more than 100. Eight “anarchists” are tried for inciting a riot. Four are hanged; one commits suicide, and three win pardons after seven years in prison.

Source: Associated Press