Event    From 21/12/1988  To 21/12/1988

Lockerbie bombing

Categories: Terrorism, Tragedy

Countries: Scotland

Pan Am 103 flying Heathrow to New York's JFK was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. 270 were killed: 243 passengers, 16 crew, 11 on the ground.

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Lockerbie bombing

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Alistair Berkley and the Lockerbie bombing

Broad-leaf Cockspur Hawthorn (Crataegus x prunifolia) planted in memory of Al...

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Lockerbie bench - 01 - crew

For the crew of flight 103 Lockerbie, December 21, 1988

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Pascal Michael Dolf

Pascal Michael Dolf

Non-British, killed by the Bali bomb. Pascal Michael Dolf was born on 25 January 1977 in Chur, Bezirk Plessur, Graubünden, Switzerland. He was a Swiss backpacker and bank officer employed at Graub...

Person, Terrorism, Tragedy, Indonesia, Switzerland

1 memorial
Jacob Lepidus

Jacob Lepidus

Anarchist. During the so-called 'Tottenham Outrage' (see there for the full, exciting, story) Lepidus and his henchman Paul Helfeld (or Hefeld) commandeered a tram. The picture is not a photograph ...

Person, Terrorism, Balkans

1 memorial
Bombs 7 July 2005

Bombs 7 July 2005

In the middle of the morning rush hour four bombs went off on three tube trains, at 8.50am and a bus, at 9.47am. 52 people died. Plaques commemorating the victims have been placed at each of the b...

Event, Seriously Famous, Terrorism, Tragedy

12 memorials
Admiral Duncan pub bombing

Admiral Duncan pub bombing

Well known as a gay pub, the Admiral Duncan was the site chosen by Neo-Nazi David Copeland to detonate a nail bomb which killed three people and wounded 70. Copeland, who was also responsible for ...

Event, Commerce, Community / Clubs, Food & Drink, Gender Issues, Terrorism, Tragedy

3 memorials
Kurt William Cochran

Kurt William Cochran

Died in an act of terrorism on 22 March 2017 on Westminster Bridge. Kurt Cochran, 54, from the US state of Utah, was in London as part of a holiday celebrating 25 years of marriage to Melissa, who ...

Person, Terrorism, Tragedy, USA

1 memorial

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90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II was actually born on 21 April 1926, but since 1959 official celebrations have taken place on the second Saturday of June which in 2016 was the 11th.

Event, Royalty, Tourism / Traditions

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Ronald William Godfrey Jones, B.E.M.

Ronald William Godfrey Jones, B.E.M.

Footballer. A serving soldier n WW2, he was taken prisoner and sent to a camp in Italy. He volunteered to be an engineer, but found himself being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Here he witne...

Person, Armed Forces, Social Welfare, Sport / Games, Wales

1 memorial
Lewis "Daddy" H. Burtt

Lewis "Daddy" H. Burtt

Brother of John Burtt. They had been found on the street and were educated in a Ragged School themselves. Founder of Hoxton Market Christian Mission.

Person, Social Welfare

1 memorial
Sir Simon de Burley

Sir Simon de Burley

Soldier and then tutor to Prince Richard who would become Richard II. Burley stayed close to Richard, arranging his marriage for him.  Burley had great influence over the king, which was resented b...

Person, Execution, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Thomas Carlyle (author)

Thomas Carlyle (author)

Historian, essayist and co-founder of the National Portrait Gallery. Born in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Portrayed, second from right, in the 1860 Ford Madox Brown painting 'Work'...

Person, History, Literature, Scotland

6 memorials