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Dec 12, 2022 · On Dec. 21, 1988, a bomb planted aboard Pan Am Flight 103 exploded less than half an hour after the jet departed London’s Heathrow airport, bound for New York. The attack destroyed the jet ...
Federal agents sift through the rubble at the base of the sound stack in Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta after the pipe bomb that Eric Rudolph planted exploded July 27, 1996, killing two and injuring 100. John Giles - PA Images/PA Images via Getty Images. From Rudolph's memoirs posted on the Army of God website, "Between the Lines of Drift ...
Jul 27, 2016 · 20 years later: Remembering an eerie day in Atlanta after the Olympic Park bombing. Jason Foster. 07-27-2016 • 7 min read. Twenty years ago today, my friends and I arrived in Atlanta around 9 a ...
Richard Allensworth Jewell (born Richard White; [1] December 17, 1962 – August 29, 2007) was an American security guard and law enforcement officer who alerted police during the Centennial Olympic Park bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. He discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs on the park grounds [1] and ...
The Olympic Games are held every four years; since 1994, they have been alternated between the Summer and Winter Olympics every two years during the four-year period. Their creation was inspired by the ancient Olympic Games, held in Olympia, Greece from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD.
Jul 24, 2012 · Jul 24, 2012. The Atlanta Olympics -- the Centennial Games -- opened the night of July 19, 1996, when Janet Evans passed the torch to Muhammad Ali, who lit the cauldron in one of the most ...
Jul 27, 2013 · O n July 27, 1996, the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia are disrupted by the explosion of a nail-laden pipe bomb in Centennial Olympic Park. The bombing, which occurred during a free concert, killed one and injured more than 100 others. Police were warned of the bombing in advance, but the device exploded before the anonymous caller said it ...
