List of terrorist incidents in 1970
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator Part of
January 13 Shotdown 7 0 Urabá , Colombia An UH-1 Iroquois helicopter from the Colombian Air Force disappears amidst strange circumstances in the Urabá Antioquia . The PLA was awarded its shotdown . The seven crew members died EPL Colombian Conflict
February 8 Bombing 0 0 Belfast , Northern Ireland A bomb explodes at the home of Ulster Liberal Party MP Sheelagh Murnaghan Ulster Volunteer Force The Troubles
February 10 Shooting , grenade attacks 1 23 Munich , West Germany A bus carrying passengers to an El Al airplane at the Munich-Riem Airport , West Germany was attacked by Palestinian terrorists . One person was killed and 23 were wounded in the attack PDFLP Israeli-Palestinian conflict
February 18 Bombing 0 0 { County Donegal , Republic of Ireland A bomb detonated in a TV station that transmitted RTÉ ( Mainly Irish broadcaster ) Ulster Volunteer Force The Troubles
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 Premature explosion 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 7 Bombing , Shooting 0 0 Belfast , Northern Ireland A bomb explodes in the house of Nationalist Party MP Austin Currie shortly after shots were fired to the house Ulster Volunteer Force The Troubles
March 26 Bombing 0 0 Tallaght , Republic of Ireland A bomb explodes in a electricity substation in Tallaght , Near Dublin Ulster Volunteer Force The Troubles
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
April Riot 0 0 Stanford , California , United States At Stanford University over a period of several nights bands of student radicals systematically set fires , break windows and throw rocks Left-wing student radicals Terrorism in the United States
May Bombing 0 0 Fresno , California , United States In reaction to the U.S. invasion of Cambodia , Kent State shootings , and Jackson State killings a Fresno State College computer center was destroyed by a firebomb . While reaction to these three events was massive , most were peaceful Left-wing student radicals Terrorism in the United States
May 1 Bombing 0 11 Bronx , 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
June 1 Kidnapping , Assassination 1 0 Timote , Argentina The former president of Argentina Pedro Eugenio Aramburu was kidnapped and shot dead by Montoneros guerrillas in the argentinian district of Timote Montoneros Dirty War
June 1 Shooting , Clash ( 1+ ) ( 2+ ) Córdoba , Argentina The so-called Toma de la Calera was an operation carried out by the Argentine guerrilla organization Montoneros on July 1 , 1970 , at 07:30 in the morning , in the town of La Calera in Córdoba . They took the police station , stormed the Bank of the Province of Córdoba , took the telephone switchboard . After the withdrawal , several planning and execution errors led to the arrest of several militants , some of them founders of the organization Montoneros Dirty War
June 27 Riots 6 26 Belfast , Northern Ireland During a riot in working class parts of Belfast republicans shot dead five loyalist meanwhile loyalist kill a republican Provisional IRA and loyalist paramilitaries The Troubles
July 16 Bombing 0 30 Belfast , Northern Ireland A bomb explodes in the northern bank in Belfast , injuring 30 people Provisional IRA The Troubles
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 unknown
July 30 Shooting 1 Unknown Garín , Argentina Assault and take over of a police detachment , a railway station , a telephone switchboard and a bank . At least one police died in an operation to get weapons and ammunition for Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias 's militants FAR Dirty War
31 July-August 10 Assassination 1 0 Montevideo , Uruguay Dan Mitrione , Chief Public Safety Adviser for USAID in Uruguay was kidnapped and murdered by MLN-T militants . In the same day the group kidnapping the Brazilian consul Aloysio Dias Gomide , released on 21 February 1971 for ransom ( $ 250,000 ) Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros
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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).