History of U.S. Bombings, Failed Attempts

A look at tragic U.S. bombings throughout history.

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Boston Marathon Bombings - Here is a list of some of the worst bombings in the U.S. dating to the 1800s, including some famous attempts that failed. -- By Associated Press April 15, 2013: Two bombs explode in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 140. (Photo: AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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MLK Day Bombing  - Jan. 17, 2011: A backpack bomb is placed along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., meant to kill and injure participants in a civil rights march, but is found and disabled before it can explode. White supremacist Kevin Harpham is convicted and sentenced to 32 years in federal prison. (Photo: AP Photo/Spokane County Sheriff)

Times Square Plot - May 1, 2010: Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad leaves an explosives-laden SUV in New York's Times Square, hoping to detonate it on a busy night. Street vendors spot smoke coming from the vehicle and the bomb is disabled. Shahzad is arrested as he tries to leave the country and is sentenced to life in prison. (Photo: REUTERS/Courtesy of Orkut.com/Handout)

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Times Square Plot - May 1, 2010: Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad leaves an explosives-laden SUV in New York's Times Square, hoping to detonate it on a busy night. Street vendors spot smoke coming from the vehicle and the bomb is disabled. Shahzad is arrested as he tries to leave the country and is sentenced to life in prison. (Photo: REUTERS/Courtesy of Orkut.com/Handout)

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"Underwear Bomber" Plot - Dec. 25, 2009: The so-called "underwear bomber," Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is subdued by passengers and crew after trying to blow up an airliner heading from Paris to Detroit using explosives hidden in his undergarments. He's sentenced to life in prison. (Photo: U.S. Marshals Service via Getty Images) 

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Sept. 11, 2001: The First Hit - At 8:46a.m. American Airlines Flight 11, scheduled to fly from Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California, is hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists and  crashes into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, killing all 92 people on board, including the hijackers. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks - Sept. 11, 2001: Four commercial jets are hijacked by 19 al-Qaida militants and used as suicide bombs, bringing down the two towers of New York City's World Trade Center and crashing into the Pentagon. Nearly 3,000 people are killed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Unabomber  - Jan 22, 1998: Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty in Sacramento, Calif., to being the Unabomber in return for a sentence of life in prison without parole. He's locked up in the federal Supermax prison in Colorado for killing three people and injuring 23 during a nationwide bombing spree between 1978 and 1995. (Photo: Reuters)

Eric Robert Rudolph - Eric Robert Rudolph staged a series of bombings throughout the United States between 1996 and 1998, including the Centennial Olympic Park bombing during the 1996 Olympics. One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives, he was finally apprehended in 2003 and is serving four consecutive life sentences. (Photo: Erik S. Lesser, Stringer/Getty Images)

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Birmingham Abortion Clinic - Jan. 20, 1998: A bombing at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., kills one guard and injures a nurse. Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected in the case. (Photo: Getty Images)

1996 Summer Olympics - July 27, 1996: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Summer Games, killing two people and injuring more than 100. Eric Robert Rudolph is arrested in 2003. He pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison. (Photo: REUTERS)

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1996 Summer Olympics - July 27, 1996: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the Summer Games, killing two people and injuring more than 100. Eric Robert Rudolph is arrested in 2003. He pleads guilty and is sentenced to life in prison. (Photo: REUTERS)

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Oklahoma City Bombing - April 19, 1995: A car bomb parked outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City kills 168 people and injures more than 500. It is the deadliest U.S. bombing in 75 years. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are convicted. McVeigh is executed in 2001 and Nichols is sentenced to life in prison. (Photo: Win McNamee / Reuters)

World Trade Center - Feb. 26, 1993: A bomb in a van explodes in the underground World Trade Center garage in New York City, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000. Five extremists are eventually convicted. (Photo: Reuters/Peter Morgan)

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World Trade Center - Feb. 26, 1993: A bomb in a van explodes in the underground World Trade Center garage in New York City, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000. Five extremists are eventually convicted. (Photo: Reuters/Peter Morgan)

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Washington, D.C. - The nation’s capital came out on top in last month’s ranking using a 745,598,550 kWh of green energy annually. They get their green energy from various sources including, Washington Gas Energy Services, Constellation New Energy (a holding company for energy businesses) and Clean Currents (an independent green energy company). The city just became a Green Power Community in March 2011. (Photo:  Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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U.S. Captiol Building - Nov. 7, 1983: A bomb blows a hole in a wall outside the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington. No one is hurt. Two leftist radicals plead guilty. (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

JFK Airport - May 16, 1981: A bomb explodes in a men's bathroom at the Pan Am terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport, killing a man. A group calling itself the Puerto Rican Armed Resistance claims responsibility. No arrests are made. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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JFK Airport - May 16, 1981: A bomb explodes in a men's bathroom at the Pan Am terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport, killing a man. A group calling itself the Puerto Rican Armed Resistance claims responsibility. No arrests are made. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

LaGuardia Airport - Dec. 29, 1975: A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at the TWA terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Palestinian, Puerto Rican and Croatian groups are suspected, but no arrests are made. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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LaGuardia Airport - Dec. 29, 1975: A bomb hidden in a locker explodes at the TWA terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 75. Palestinian, Puerto Rican and Croatian groups are suspected, but no arrests are made. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

U.S. State Department Building - Jan. 29, 1975: The U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is killed. (Photo: Reuters)

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U.S. State Department Building - Jan. 29, 1975: The U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is killed. (Photo: Reuters)

Fraunces Tavern - Jan. 24, 1975: A bomb goes off at historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City, killing four people. It was one of 49 bombings attributed to the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN between 1974 and 1977 in New York. (Photo: Jim Henderson/Wikicommons)

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Fraunces Tavern - Jan. 24, 1975: A bomb goes off at historic Fraunces Tavern in New York City, killing four people. It was one of 49 bombings attributed to the Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN between 1974 and 1977 in New York. (Photo: Jim Henderson/Wikicommons)

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 Los Angeles International Airport - Aug. 6, 1974: A bomb goes off at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three people and injuring 36. Muharem Kurbegovic, a Yugoslavian national who became known as the "Alphabet Bomber," is convicted. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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 Los Angeles International Airport - Aug. 6, 1974: A bomb goes off at Los Angeles International Airport, killing three people and injuring 36. Muharem Kurbegovic, a Yugoslavian national who became known as the "Alphabet Bomber," is convicted. (Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Office of Sol Hurok - Jan. 27, 1972: A bomb wrecks the New York City office of impresario Sol Hurok, who had been booking Soviet artists. One person is killed and nine are injured, Hurok among them. A caller claiming to represent Soviet Jews claims responsibility, but no arrests are made.(Photo: Ron Case/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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U.S. Capitol Building - March 1, 1971: The Senate wing of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., is bombed by the radical left group Weather Underground. No one is killed. (Photo:Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images) 

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Weather Underground Townhouse Bombing - March 6, 1970: Three members of the Weather Underground accidentally blow themselves up in their townhouse in New York City's Greenwich Village while making bombs. (Photo: David Fenton/Getty Images)

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Sixteenth Street Baptist Church - Sept. 16, 1963: Four black girls are killed in a bombing at Birmingham, Ala.'s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Years later, juries convicted three Ku Klux Klansmen and one suspected accomplice died without ever having been charged. One of the four is still in prison and the others are dead. (Photo: Birmingham News /Landov)

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The Mad Bomber  - 1951-56: George Metesky, a former Consolidated Edison employee with a grudge against the company, sets off a series of blasts at New York landmarks, including Grand Central station and Radio City Music Hall. No one is killed. Known as The Mad Bomber, Metesky spends 16 years in a mental hospital. (Photo: Courtesy Library of Congress)

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The Mad Bomber  - 1951-56: George Metesky, a former Consolidated Edison employee with a grudge against the company, sets off a series of blasts at New York landmarks, including Grand Central station and Radio City Music Hall. No one is killed. Known as The Mad Bomber, Metesky spends 16 years in a mental hospital. (Photo: Courtesy Library of Congress)

 Bath Consolidated School  - May 18, 1927: 45 people — 38 of them children — are killed when a school district treasurer, Andrew Kehoe, lines the Bath Consolidated School near Lansing, Mich., with hundreds of pounds of dynamite, and blows it up. Investigators say Kehoe, who also died in the blast, thought he would lose his farm because he couldn't pay property taxes used to build the school. (Photo: Wikicommons)

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 Bath Consolidated School  - May 18, 1927: 45 people — 38 of them children — are killed when a school district treasurer, Andrew Kehoe, lines the Bath Consolidated School near Lansing, Mich., with hundreds of pounds of dynamite, and blows it up. Investigators say Kehoe, who also died in the blast, thought he would lose his farm because he couldn't pay property taxes used to build the school. (Photo: Wikicommons)

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Wall Street - Sept. 16, 1920: A bomb explodes in New York City's Wall Street area, killing 40 and injuring hundreds. Authorities conclude it was the work of "anarchists" and come up with a list of suspects, but all flee to Russia. (Photo: APIC/ GettyImages)

Los Angeles Times Building - Oct. 1, 1910: The Los Angeles Times building is dynamited during a labor dispute, killing 20 people. Two leaders of the ironworkers union plead guilty. (Photo: Wikicommons)

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Los Angeles Times Building - Oct. 1, 1910: The Los Angeles Times building is dynamited during a labor dispute, killing 20 people. Two leaders of the ironworkers union plead guilty. (Photo: Wikicommons)

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Haymarket Square  - May 4, 1886: A bomb blast during a labor rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square kills 11 people, including seven police officers, and injures more than 100. Eight "anarchists" are tried for inciting riot. Four are hanged, one commits suicide and three win pardons after seven years in prison. (Photo: Getty Images)