US Capitol Riot
January 6, 2021: A mob of Trump supporters breaches the Capitol Building in opposition to the Electoral College vote count of the 2020 presidential election.
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2020 Nashville Bombing
December 25, 2020: An early morning explosion rocks downtown Nashville, injuring several people and damaging dozens of buildings.
Read moreUS Civil Unrest
May 25, 2020-Present: The homicide of George Floyd during an arrest by Minneapolis police sets off months of civil unrest protesting racism and police brutality.
Read moreMilwaukee Brewery Shooting
February 26, 2020: At the Molson Coors Beverage Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, an employee opened fire on coworkers, killing five before killing himself.
Jersey City Shooting
December 10, 2019: Two assailants opened fire at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, NJ after shooting and killing a police officer at a nearby cemetery.
Read moreWest Texas Shooting
August 31, 2019: A gunman opens fire indiscriminately on motorists and bystanders along a 15-mile stretch of road between Midland and Odessa, Texas before being shot and killed by police in a theater parking lot in Odessa.
Read moreDayton Shooting
August 4, 2019: A gunman opens fire in a popular nightlife district in downtown Dayton, Ohio, killing nine people in less than 30 seconds before being killed by police.
Read moreEl Paso Shooting
August 3, 2019: A gunman opens fire at a busy Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people before being apprehended by police.
Read moreVirginia Beach Shooting
May 31, 2019: A gunman, DeWayne Craddock, opens fire at the city’s municipal center in Virginia Beach, VA, killing 12 people before later being shot and killed by responding police officers.
Read moreAurora, Illinois Shooting
February 15, 2019: At Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, Gary Montez Martin opened fire and killed five people. The gunman was later shot and killed by responding police officers.
Read moreThousand Oaks Shooting
November 7, 2018: A gunman opened fire inside Borderline Bar and Grill, a country-western dance bar in Thousand Oaks, California, during a busy ‘College Country Night’ event.
Read morePittsburgh Synagogue Shooting
October 27, 2018: Considered the deadliest attach on the Jewish community to take place in the United States in history, a gunman opened fire while Shabbat morning services and a bris were being held.
Read moreOctober 2018 Mail Bombing Attempts
October 22, 2018: Over the course of a week, a total of 15 packages containing improvised explosive devices were sent to several prominent critics of President Trump. Fortunately, none of the packages exploded outside of a controlled setting.
Read moreAustin Serial Bombings
March 2-21, 2018: A string of bombings rocks Austin, Texas as a man delivers packaged bombs around the area. For nearly a month, eight package bombs were discovered, six of them detonating, until the suspect committed suicide before police could arrest him.
Read moreStoneman Douglas High School Shooting
February 14, 2018: At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the city of Parkland, Florida, 19 year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on both students and faculty, killing more than a dozen.
Read moreTexas Church Shooting
November 5, 2017: Devin Patrick Kelley of nearby New Braunfels, killed 26 and injured 20 others in a shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
Read moreNew York Truck Attack
October 31, 2017: Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov drove down a crowded bicycle and pedestrian path near the World Trade Center in Manhatten, New York. He drove on the pathway for several blocks, striking numerous people.
Read moreLas Vegas Shooting
October 1, 2017: Stephen Paddock of Mesquite, Nevada, fired hundreds of rifle rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel on a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured.
Read moreCharlottesville Rally Protest
August 11-12, 2017: Prior to an Alt-Right rally, a man drove his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one person and injuring 19 more.
Read moreFort Lauderdale Airport Shooting
January 6, 2017: Near a baggage claim in Terminal 2 at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood airport, Iraq war veteran, Esteban Santiago, opened fire with a semi-automatic pistol in a crowd of travelers.
Read moreOhio State University Attack
November 28, 2016: Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan, drove a vehicle into a courtyard deliberately striking pedestrians, then began attacking students with a knife after crashing the vehicle.
Read moreNew York and New Jersey Bombings
September 17, 2016: Ahmad Rahami conducted two bombings and attempted additional bombings in various locations in New York City and New Jersey on September 17, 2016, and September 18, 2016.
Read moreSt. Cloud Mall Stabbing Attack
September 17, 2016: 10 people were injured in a stabbing attack at the Crossroads Mall in St. Cloud Minnesota. The attacker, Dahir Adan, was fatally shot by an armed off-duty police officer on the scene.
Read moreDallas Police Shooting
Pulse Nightclub Shooting
June 12, 2016: Omar Mir Seddique Mateen began shooting patrons inside Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Forty-nine people were killed; 53 were wounded.
San Bernardino Shooting
Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooting
November 27, 2015: Robert Lewis Dear, Jr. opened fire at a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing 3 and injuring 9.
Read moreUmpqua Community College Shootings
October 1, 2015: Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer began shooting classmates in a classroom on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. Nine people were killed; seven were wounded.
Read moreLafayette Movie Theater Shooting
July 23, 2015: An assailant opened fire at the Grand 16 theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. With a history of mental problems, he legally purchased a gun from an Alabama pawn shop.
Read moreChattanooga Shootings
July 16, 2015: Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez began shooting at the Armed Forces Career Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, wounding a U.S. Marine. The shooter then drove to the Navy and Marine Reserve Center, where he killed 4 U.S. Marines and wounded a law enforcement officer and a U.S. navy sailor who died a few days later.
Read moreOPM Data Breach
Charleston Church Shooting
Las Vegas Police Ambush
July 8, 2014: Two Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers were ambushed and killed by two assailants. The assailants went on to instigate an active shooter situation, killing a Good Samaritan civilian who attempted to intervene.
Read moreIsla Vista Rampage
2014 Fort Hood Shooting
April 2, 2014: Ivan Antonio Lopez-Lopez began shooting inside an administrative office on the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas. The active-duty soldier then moved from one location to another, firing inside and outside buildings. Three soldiers were killed; 12 were wounded. — FBI, Active Shooter Incidents
Navy Yard Shooting
West Fertilizer Company Fire and Explosion
April 17, 2013: The fire and explosion at the West Fertilizer Company (WFC) in West, Texas was described as “one of the most destructive incidents ever investigated by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB).”
Boston Marathon Bombings
April 15, 2013: At the annual Boston Marathon, 282 people were injured and four were killed, including an MIT police officer, when two pressure-cooker bombs exploded near the crowded finish line.
Christopher Dorner Shootings and Manhunt
February 3-12, 2013: Former Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner began a manifesto-fueled rampage, targeting civilians and law enforcement alike. The incident left four dead and several wounded across multiple counties and involved law enforcement from multiple jurisdictions.
Read moreSandy Hook School Shooting
December 14, 2012: In the space of several minutes, Adam Lanza killed 20 elementary school children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The tragic event heightened growing concerns about school security and gun control laws.
Read moreBenghazi Attack
September 11, 2012: the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya was attacked by members of Ansar al-Sharia. The group launched a mortar attack at a CIA annex the next morning, approximately one mile away.
Read moreSikh Temple Shooting
Aurora Century 16 Theater Shooting
Shooting at Gabrielle Giffords’ ‘Congress on Your Corner’ Event
Stuxnet Worm
Austin Plane Crash
February 18, 2010: Andrew Joseph Stack deliberately flew his small single engine aircraft into the Echelon I office building which housed an IRS office in Austin, Texas.
Read more2009 Fort Hood Shooting
Binghamton Shootings
Virginia Tech Shooting
April 16, 2007: “Seung Hui Cho began shooting in a dormitory at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Two-and-a-half hours later, he chained the doors shut in a classroom building and began shooting at the students and faculty inside.
Beltway Sniper Attacks
October 2002: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo began a series of sniper shootings that would paralyze the National Capitol Region for almost three weeks until October 22, 2002. Thirteen people were shot, ten of whom died from their wounds.
Read more“Amerithrax” Anthrax Attacks
September 18, 2001: “Soon after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Five Americans were killed and 17 were sickened in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history. The ensuing investigation by the FBI and its partners — code-named ‘Amerithrax’ — has been one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement.” — FBI
Read moreSeptember 11, 2001 Attacks
September 11, 2001: Two passenger airliners crash into the World Trade Center Towers in New York, one would hit the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and another crashed in a Pennsylvania countryside, but was headed for Washington, D.C.
Read moreUSS Cole Bombing
Columbine High School Massacre
April 20, 1999: Two subjects walked into Columbine High School and opened fire on both students and staff, as well as detonated explosive devices, some of which were planted in and around the school prior to entering.
Read moreUS Embassy Bombings, East Africa
August 7, 1998: Bombs detonated in front of two American embassies; one in Nairobi, Kenya and the other in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Read moreCentennial Olympic Park Bombing
July 27, 1996: During the Summer Olympic games in Atlanta, GA, Eric Rudolph planted a backpack containing a bomb in crowded Centennial Olympic Park. While many spectators were evacuated, the bomb detonated before all could leave.
Read more“Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski Arrested
April 3, 1996: Theodore Kaczynski is arrested. Also known as the Unabomber, Kaczynski sent primitive, untraceable, homemade explosives to a number of random targets that left the FBI puzzled for nearly two decades.
Read moreOklahoma City Bombing
April 19, 1995: A bomb ripped through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, set by Timothy McVeigh.
Read moreWorld Trade Center Bombing
February 26, 1993: A bomb exploded in a rented moving truck that was parked in the garage beneath the World Trade Center that resulted in a 100-foot crater that was several stories deep and several stories higher.
Read morePan Am 103 Bombing
December 21, 1988: Pan Am Flight 103 departed from London’s Heathrow Airport, bound for New York City. However, just 40 minutes into the flight, the plane exploded 31,000 feet up in the skies above Lockerbie, Scotland.
Read moreTWA Flight 847 Hijacking
June 14, 1985: TWA Flight 847 from Cairo to San Diego with stops in Athens and Rome, was hijacked and held hostage for 17 days, while being subjected to torture and death threats.
Read moreUS Embassy Annex Bombing, Beirut
September 20, 1984: A suicide bomber detonates a van full of approximately 3,000 pounds of explosives outside of the US Embassy Annex in Beirut, Lebanon. This was the second attack in less than two years on the US Embassy in Beirut.
Read moreRajneeshee Bioterror Attack
September 1984: “The Rajneesh cult succeeded with the first documented bioterror incident in the United States. […] Their attack hospitalized 45, caused 751 to fall ill, and would serve as a historical benchmark of bioterrorism in the United States.”
US Embassy Bombing, Beirut
April 18, 1983: A suicide bomber crashes a truck into the front of the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon before detonating approximately 2,000 pounds of explosives.
Read moreLaGuardia Airport Bombing
Dawson’s Field Hijackings
September 1970: Four aircraft bound for New York City and one for London, were hijacked by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Read moreBaptist Street Bombing
September 15, 1963: A dynamite bomb exploded in the back stairwell of the downtown Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The church was well-known as a key civil rights meeting place, so the incident was easily classified as an act of racial hatred.
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