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1983 Beirut barracks bombings
Suicide truck bomb attacks on October 23, 1983, also known as the Beirut barracks bombings, killed 241 U.S. personnel and 58 French paratroopers of the Multinational Force; claimed by Islamic Jihad, linked to Hezbollah and Iran.
1983 United States Senate bombing
1983 United States Senate bombing, also called the Capitol Senate wing bombing or Armed Resistance Unit attack: a November 7, 1983 explosion outside the Senate Chamber causing $250,000 damage, no injuries, and later Resistance Conspiracy prosecutions.
1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état
The 1983 Upper Voltan coup d'état was the 4 August 1983 seizure of power in Upper Volta by Captain Thomas Sankara, who overthrew President Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo.
1984 anti-Sikh riots
The 1984 anti-Sikh riots, also called the 1984 Sikh massacre or November 1984 pogroms, were organized attacks on Sikhs in Delhi and across India after Indira Gandhi's assassination on 31 October 1984, killing about 2,733 officially, with contested terminology and long-delayed prosecutions.
1984 Guinean coup d'état
The 1984 Guinean coup d'état was a bloodless military takeover in which Colonel Lansana Conté seized power in Guinea a week after President Sékou Touré's death.
1985 Gaborone raid
The 1985 Gaborone raid, codenamed Operation Plecksy, was a predawn South African Defence Force cross-border attack on Gaborone, Botswana, on 14 June 1985 that killed twelve people.
1985 Manchester Airport disaster
1985 Manchester Airport disaster: British Airtours Flight 28M (Flight 328), Boeing 737-236 G-BGJL to Corfu, uncontained left-engine failure and fuel fire on takeoff at Manchester, killing 55 of 137 aboard.
1985 MOVE bombing
The 1985 MOVE bombing: Philadelphia police dropped a C-4/Tovex satchel bomb from a helicopter on MOVE's Osage Avenue row house on May 13, 1985, killing 11, burning 61 homes; the 1986 MOVE Commission called it unconscionable.
1985 Ugandan coup d'état
The 1985 Ugandan coup d'état was the military overthrow of President Milton Obote on 27 July 1985 by army officers led by Tito Okello, Obote's second ouster.
1986 FBI Miami shootout
The 1986 FBI Miami shootout, also called the Platt-Matix gunfight, was an April 11, 1986 gun battle in Miami-Dade County in which eight FBI agents fought bank robbers Michael Platt and William Matix; two agents and both suspects died, driving FBI ammunition and weapons reform.
1986 Lima prison massacres
The 1986 Lima prison massacres were the killing of nearly 250 Shining Path inmates during the suppression of prison uprisings in Lima and Callao in June 1986.
1986 United States bombing of Libya
Operation El Dorado Canyon, the 1986 United States bombing of Libya: April 14–15, 1986 US Air Force and Navy air strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi, ordered by Reagan in retaliation for the La Belle discotheque bombing in West Berlin.
1988 Burundian massacres
The 1988 Burundian massacres were interethnic killings in northern Burundi in August 1988, in which Hutu killed several thousand Tutsi and the army reprisals killed up to 20,000 Hutu.
1990 Târgu Mureș ethnic clashes
The 1990 Târgu Mureș ethnic clashes, known in Hungarian as Black March, were violence between Romanians and Hungarians in Târgu Mureș, Romania, in March 1990.
1990 Zambian coup attempt
The 1990 Zambian coup attempt was a failed military takeover of 30 June 1990, in which Lieutenant Mwamba Luchembe seized Radio Zambia in Lusaka and announced President Kenneth Kaunda's fall.
1990–1991 Malian crisis
The 1990–1991 Malian crisis was a Tuareg uprising that began in June 1990 against General Moussa Traoré's government, which fell to a pro-democracy movement in March 1991.
1991 Gulf War Boeing KC-135 accident
1991 Gulf War Boeing KC-135 accident: KC-135E Stratotanker Whale 05 (58-0013) of the 190th Air Refueling Wing hit wake turbulence over Saudi Arabia on 6 February 1991, lost both left engines, and landed safely at Jeddah.
1991 Haitian coup d'état
The 1991 Haitian coup d'état overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on September 30, 1991, led by General Raoul Cédras, ending with a U.S. intervention in 1994.
1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout
1991 Lokhandwala Complex shootout: 16 November 1991 Mumbai gun battle in which the ATS under Aftab Ahmed Khan killed seven gangsters led by Maya Dolas; later disputed as a fake encounter and dramatized in the 2007 film Shootout at Lokhandwala.
1992 Los Angeles riots
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also called the Rodney King riots, erupted on April 29, 1992 after officers were acquitted in King's beating, killing over 60 people.
1992 Venezuelan coup attempts
The 1992 Venezuelan coup attempts were two failed uprisings against President Carlos Andrés Pérez, in February and November 1992, led by Hugo Chávez and senior officers.
1992 Yugoslav campaign in Bosnia
1992 Yugoslav campaign in Bosnia: the JNA and Bosnian Serb (VRS) offensive of April–August 1992 that conquered about 70 percent of Bosnia and Herzegovina, began the 44-month siege of Sarajevo, and displaced 2.6 million people within three months.
1993 Bishopsgate bombing
Provisional IRA truck bomb, Bishopsgate bombing, 24 April 1993: one-ton fertiliser explosive in the City of London killed one and injured 44, causing damage up to £1 billion and prompting the Ring of Steel.
1993 Bombay bombings
1993 Bombay bombings (Mumbai serial blasts), 12 March 1993 coordinated attacks killing 257; organized by Dawood Ibrahim and Tiger Memon with alleged ISI orchestration, retaliation for post-Babri Masjid demolition riots; 100 convicted after 13-year TADA trial.
1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 World Trade Center bombing: February 26, 1993 Ramzi Yousef truck bomb in the North Tower garage killed six, injured 1,000+, aimed to topple both towers; preceded 9/11.
1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash
1994 Fairchild AFB B-52 crash: B-52H 61-0026, callsign Czar 52, destroyed 24 June 1994 during airshow practice when pilot Bud Holland stalled in a steep 360-degree tower turn; four crew killed, pilot and command discipline followed.
1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash
1994 Mull of Kintyre Chinook crash: RAF Chinook ZD576 hit the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland on 2 June 1994, killing all 29 aboard. Also known as the Chinook ZD576 accident; pilots' gross negligence finding was overturned in 2011.
1996 Channel Tunnel fire
1996 Channel Tunnel fire, HGV shuttle 7539 fire of 18 November 1996: lorry fire on a freight shuttle from France to England, stopped 19 km from the French entrance; no fatalities, 36 safety recommendations, over $100 million damage.
1996 Manchester bombing
The 1996 Manchester bombing: an IRA 1,500 kg lorry bomb detonated on Corporation Street on 15 June 1996 at 11:17am after a warning call; about 80,000 people were evacuated, more than 200 were injured, no one died, and damage cost around £700 million.
1997 Sierra Leonean coup d'état
The 1997 Sierra Leonean coup d'état was the 25 May 1997 seizure of power by soldiers of the AFRC under Major Johnny Paul Koroma, overthrowing President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.