Modern Era · North America · War

1993

First World Trade Center bombing

February 26, 1993

A Ryder truck packed with twelve hundred pounds of explosives detonated in a parking garage under the North Tower. Six died; more than a thousand were injured. The mastermind, Ramzi Yousef, wanted to topple one tower into the other. He failed this time. The new war nobody had yet named had announced itself in Manhattan.

More from 1993 Modern Era

In context

Also in 1993 (4 other events on record)

Oslo Accords · Middle East · Politics
EU formally established · Europe · Politics
Black Hawk Down in Mogadishu · Africa · War
Waco siege ends · North America · Politics

Before and after in North America

Before: April 29, 1992: Los Angeles riots
After: January 1, 1994: NAFTA and the Zapatista uprising

Before and after in War

Before: April 5, 1992: Siege of Sarajevo begins
After: April 6, 1994: Rwandan genocide begins

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: 1993 World Trade Center bombing