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January 7: A small bomb planted by ETA goes off in an electricity substation in the town of Borau, Huesca. No one was injured. [210] January 22: A bomb explodes in a party office owned by Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in the town of Nanclares de la Oca, causing damage only to the building. [211]
July 25 - The United States Army base at The Presidio in San Francisco is bombed on the 11th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. [14] [NYT, 7/27/70] On the same day, a branch of the Bank of America is bombed in New York. [15] July 28 - Bank of America HQ in NYC is bombed around 3:50 AM. WUO claims responsibility. [17]
The assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea was an attack by the Basque separatist group ETA which took place on 8 October 1977 in Guernica in the Basque Country in northern Spain. Three ETA members carrying pistols and submachine guns killed Unceta, the Government appointed President of the Provincial Deputation of Biscay and Mayor of ...
The movement was built around the separatist organization ETA, [6] [7] which had launched a campaign of attacks against Spanish administrations since 1959. ETA had been proscribed as a terrorist organization by the Spanish, British, [8] French [9] and American [10] authorities at different moments. The conflict took place mostly on Spanish soil ...
San Francisco, California: A student is critically injured while attempting to bomb a San Francisco State College classroom. [23] Left-wing student radical 63 August 20, 1969 Bombing 0 20 New York City, New York: Twenty are injured by radical leftist Sam Melville in a bombing of the Marine Midland Building in New York City. Sam Melville: 64
A United Airlines flight destined for Vancouver was forced to divert to San Francisco on Monday evening after an alleged bomb threat interrupted the flight.. Flight UA1909 took off from Los ...
The killing was not condemned and was, in some cases, even welcomed by the Spanish opposition in exile. According to Laura Desfor Edles, professor of sociology at California State University, Northridge, some analysts consider the assassination of Carrero Blanco to be the only thing the ETA have ever done to "further the cause of Spanish democracy". [5]
A car bomb attack was carried out on 19 June 1987 at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, Spain, by the Basque separatist organisation ETA, which was classified as a terrorist group by the European Union and numerous nations. [1] The bombing killed 21 people and injured 45, the deadliest attack in ETA's history.