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Leslie County, Kentucky: 39 Unknown Hurricane Creek mine disaster: 21 October 1971 United Kingdom: Clarkston, Scotland: 22 100 Clarkston explosion: 30 August 1972 Australia: Taroom, Queensland: 3 0 1972 Taroom explosion: 10 February 1973 United States: Staten Island, New York: 40 0 1973 Staten Island gas explosion: 28 April 1973 United States
The 1973 Old Bailey bombing (dubbed as Bloody Thursday by newspapers in Britain [2]) was a car bomb attack carried out by the Provisional IRA (IRA) which took place outside the Old Bailey Courthouse on 8 March 1973. The attack was carried out by an 11-person active service unit (ASU) from the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade.
New York City, United States 1973 New York City bomb plot: Black September member Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary attempted to bomb three Israeli locations to coincide with Golda Meir's visit to the city. However, the bombs were poorly wired and failed to detonate. Black September Israeli–Palestinian conflict March 8 Car bombing 1 200
The Lexington Police Department’s Hazardous Devices Unit responded to the scene and safely removed the bomb.
Harlan County USA (variously written with and without a comma) is a 1976 American documentary film covering the "Brookside Strike", [1] a 1973 effort of 180 coal miners and their wives against the Duke Power Company-owned Eastover Coal Company's Brookside Mine and Prep Plant in Harlan County, southeast Kentucky.
8 March - 1973 Old Bailey bombing - The Provisional IRA conducted their first operations in England exploding two car bombs in the center of London. One bomb exploded outside the Old Bailey Courthouse, injuring 180 people and one man later died from a heart attack, the bomb exploded near Whitehall injuring about 30 other people, bringing the total injured for the day to over 200.
The person who found the bomb took it to Fire Station #5 on Woodland Avenue at about 10:40 a.m., said Battalion Chief Derek Roberts of the Lexington Fire Department. The crews evacuated and called ...
The Roseville Yard Disaster was an accidental explosion and fire that occurred on April 28, 1973, in the United States at a major Southern Pacific rail yard in the city of Roseville, California. [1] The shipment of munitions bound for the Vietnam War originated at the Hawthorne Naval Ammunition Depot in Hawthorne, Nevada. Explosions continued ...