List of terrorist incidents, 1976
The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be considered non-state terrorism in 1976.
- United Kingdom, January 5: The IRA operating under the cover name of the South Armagh Republican Action Force, kill ten Unionist workers in the Kingsmill massacre, County Armagh, in retaliation for the killing of six Nationalists by loyalist paramilitaries.
- Djibouti, February 3: Somali Coast Liberation Front hijack a school bus, killing one girl.
- Japan, March 2: A time-bomb exploded at Hokkaido Prefectual office, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, killing two, another injuring are 85, one left-wing member arrested by Japanese authority on Seprtember 1.
- Spain, May 9: Far right gunmen (including Stefano Delle Chiaie) kill two left-wing Carlists in Montejurra.
- Lebanon, June 16: In Beirut, US Ambassador Francis E. Meloy, Jr., and Economic Councelor Robert O. Waring were kidnapped by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and killed a short time later.
- Uganda, Israel, June 26–July 4: Hijacking of Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Paris) by Palestinian PFLP and German Revolutionary Cells (Revolutionäre Zellen); see Operation Entebbe: four hostages, one Sayeret Matkal soldier and 45 Ugandan soldiers killed.
- United Kingdom, , July 21: An IRA landmine kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the newly appointed British ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, and his secretary Judith Cook.
- United States, Canada, France, September 10–September 11: Croatian Freedom Fighters hijack a TWA airliner, diverting it to Gander, Newfoundland, and then to Paris, demanding a manifesto be printed. One police officer was killed and three injured during an attempt to defuse a bomb that contained their communiques in a New York City train station locker.[1]. Zvonko Busic who served 32 years in prison for the attack was released and returned to Croatia to a heroes welcome in July 2008.[2]
- Argentina, September 12: A bomb blast, following to terrorist using sprayed and machine-gun fire in near by Estadio Gigante de Arroyito soccer stadium, Rosario, Argentina, which blame on Radical Peronist guerrilla group, kills nine policemen with two civillians and injures at least two people.[citation needed]
- United States, September 21: Orlando Letelier assassinated in
- Cuba, October 6: Cubana Flight 455 was bombed while flying from Barbados to Havana, killing 73 passengers plus crew members. Anti-Castro exiles with suspected ties to the CIA are involved, among them Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. Victims included six Guyanese medical students and the entire Cuban youth fencing team.[3]
- Jordan, November 17: Abu Nidal Organization fighters stormed the Intercontinental Hotel in Amman, Jordan and seized several hostages. Jordanian security responded by storming the hotel. In the ensuing fighting 3 terrorists, 2 Jordanian soldiers, and 2 civilians were killed. [4]
- Indonesia, December 4: In the Netherlands, members of the RMS movement occupy the Indonesian diplomatic consulate in The Hague. One Indonesian official is killed.
- Argentina, December 15: A bomb blast in third-floor of Argentine Defense Ministry headquarters building in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, which blame on Radical Peronist guerrilla group, kills 15 and injures 30
