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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).
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| Date | Type | Deaths | Injuries | Location | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
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| February 10 | Shooting, grenade attacks | 1 | 23 | Munich, West Germany | A bus carrying passengers to an El Al plane at the Munich-Riem Airport was attacked by militants.[1] | DFLP | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| February 21 | Bombing | 47 | 0 | Switzerland | A bomb exploded in the rear of Swissair Flight 330, causing it to crash near Zürich, killing 38 passengers and all 9 crew members. | 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 22 | Bombing | 12 | 25 | Avivim, Israel | The Avivim school bus bombing was a terrorist attack on an Israeli school bus, in which 12 civilians were killed, nine of them children, and 25 were wounded, one of whom died of a wound sustained in the attack 44 years later. The attack took place on the road to Moshav Avivim, near the border with Lebanon. Two rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were fired at the bus. The attack was one of the first carried out by the PFLP-GC. | PFLP-GC | Palestinian insurgency in South Lebanon |
| March 31 | Plane hijacking | 0 | 0 | Japan, South Korea, North Korea | Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from TokyotoFukuoka, was hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Red Army. 23 passengers were freed at Fukuoka Airport, mainly children or old aged. 108 passengers and all crew members with Red Army left Fukuoka, bound for Gimpo AirportinSeoul. Three days later, the hijackers asked to be flown to the North Korean capital Pyongyang, before leaving, 103 hostages were freed, and nine Red Army members surrendered to North Korean authorities. | Japanese Red Army | |
| April 21 | Bombing | 36 | 0 | Philippines | Unknown | ||
| May 22 | Ambush | 12 | 25 | Avivim, Israel | Two bazooka shells were fired at a school bus by, killing 12, including 8 children and wounding another 25. | PFLP-GC | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| June 1 | Kidnapping, Assassination | 1 | 0 | Timote, Argentina | Former President Pedro Eugenio Aramburu was kidnapped and shot dead.[2][3] | Montoneros | Dirty War |
| June 27 | Riots | 6 | 26 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | Gun battle between Provisional IRA and Ulster Loyalists. | Provisional IRA and loyalist paramilitaries | The Troubles |
| July 22 | Bombing | 6 | 66 | Gioia Tauro, Italy | Bomb attack on the train Palermo–Turin, near the Gioia Tauro railway station.[4] | Unknown | |
| 31 July–August 10 | Kidnapping | 1 | 0 | Montevideo, Uruguay | Dan Mitrione, Chief Public Safety Adviser for USAID in Uruguay was kidnapped and murdered by 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 | |
| August 12 | Bombing | 2 | 0 | Crossmaglen, Northern Ireland | Two members of the RUC were killed by a booby trap bomb | Provisional IRA | The Troubles |
| August 24 | Bombing | 1 | 3 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States | The Army Mathematics Research Center on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus was blown up. | Anti-Vietnam War protestors | |
| September 6 | Plane hijacking | 1 (perpetrator) | 1 | Zarqa, Jordan | Coordinated hijacking of four airliners. One hijacking was foiled in midair and two planes were diverted to Jordan's Dawson Field. Nicaraguan Sandinista hijacker Patrick Argüello was killed and all passengers were freed after negotiated release of captured hijacker Leila Khaled and three PFLP prisoners. The following day a fifth aircraft was also hijacked. | PFLP | Black September |
| October 5 – October 17 | Kidnapping, murder | 1 | 1 (kidnapped) | Quebec, Canada | Murder of Pierre Laporte, kidnapping of James Cross. | FLQ | October Crisis |
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