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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Jacob Lepidus

Jacob Lepidus

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Brick Lane bomb

Brick Lane bomb

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Event, Race Issues, Terrorism

1 memorial
murder of 11 Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics

murder of 11 Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics

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Event, Terrorism, Tragedy

1 memorial
Harrods bomb

Harrods bomb

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Mrs Gaskell

Mrs Gaskell

Novelist and short story writer. Born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson,Chelsea. Most of her childhood was spent with her aunt in Knutsford, Cheshire, the town upon which she based Cranford in the novel...

Person, Literature

1 memorial
Arthur Waley

Arthur Waley

Poet, translator and orientalist. He never actually visited China nor Japan.

Person, Poetry, China/Hong Kong, Japan

1 memorial
St Gabriel Fen(church)

St Gabriel Fen(church)

Dating back to at least 1331, the church was destroyed in the Great Fire after which the parish united with that of St Margaret Pattens, in 1670 and then in 1954 was included in that of St Edmund t...

Building, Religion

3 memorials
Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus

Born Stenbrohult, Småland in southern Sweden. Inventor of a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms. One of the great collectors of the 18th century. At his death Joseph Banks tried b...

Person, Race Issues, Science, Sweden

2 memorials