List of terrorist incidents in 1970

This is a timeline of incidents in 1970 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
February 21	Bombing	47	0	Switzerland	A bomb explodes in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, killing 38 passengers and all 9 crew members. The attack was carried out by Palestinian group PFLP-GC	PFLP-GC	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
March 6	Bombing	3	2	New York City, United States	Three Weather Underground members Theodore Gold, Diana Oughton, Terry Robbins, are killed while preparing a bomb in a house in Greenwich Village. The bomb was to be used on Fort Dix. Two other Weathermen, Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson were injured in the explosion	Weather Underground
March 31	Plane hijacking	0	0	Japan  South Korea  North Korea	Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Red Army group. 23 passengers were freed at Fukuoka Airport, mainly children or old aged. 108 passengers and all crew members with Red Army group left Fukuoka, bound for Gimpo Airport, near Seoul. Three days later, Red Army group asks to be flown to North Korean capital Pyongyang, before leaving from Seoul, 103 passenger and crew hostages are freed, and nine Red Army group members surrendered to North Korean authorities.	Japanese Red Army
May 1	Bombing	0	11	United StatesBronx, New York	A terrorist group of Puerto Rico detonated two bombs in two movie theaters in Bronx, New York	Mira
May 22	Ambush	12	25	Avivim, Israel	Two bazooka shells were fired at a school bus by Palestinian PLO members, killing 12, including 8 children and wounding another 25.	PFLP-GC	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
July 22	Bombing	6	66	Gioia Tauro, Italy	a bomb attack caused six deaths and 66 injured on the train Palermo-Turin, near the Gioia Tauro railway station.[1]	unknown
August 24	Bombing	1	3	Madison, Wisconsin, United States	The Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus was blown up resulting in one death and wounding another three.	Anti-Vietnam War protestors
September 6	Plane hijacking	1 (perpetrator)	1	Zarqa, Jordan	Coordinated hijacking of four airliners. One hijacking is foiled in midair and two planes are diverted to Jordan’s Dawson Field. Nicaraguan Sandinista hijacker Patrick Argüello was killed and all passengers were freed after negotiated release of captured hijacker Leila Khaled and three PFLP prisoners. The following day a fifth aircraft was also hijacked.	PFLP	Black September
October 5 – October 17	Kidapping, murder	1	1 (kidnapped)	Quebec, Canada	FLQ murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross.	FLQ	October Crisis
October 15	Hijacking	1	3	USSR	Lithuanian father and son Pranas and Algirdas Brazinskas hijack Aeroflot Flight 244 in an attempt to defect to the west. They engage shootout with armed crew members and kill young flight attendant Nadezhda Kurchenko in the process.	Pranas and Algirdas Brazinskas
October 22	Bombing	0	0	San Francisco, California, United States	An antipersonnel time bomb explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The Black Liberation Army is suspected.[2]	Black Liberation Army (suspected)
November 6	Bombing	1	24	Tel Aviv, Israel	Two bombs explode in Tel Aviv at the central bus station killing one person and injuring 24.[3]	Fatah	Israeli-Palestinian conflict

 United States, 1970-1972: The Jewish Defense League was linked with a bomb explosion outside Aeroflot's New York City office, and a detonation outside of Soviet cultural offices in Washington. Also a JDL member allegedly fired a rifle into the Soviet Union's mission office at the United Nations. Two JDL members were convicted of bomb possession and burglary in a conspiracy to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to The Bronx.

See also

• List of terrorist incidents

References