US embassy bombings in East Africa
August 7, 1998
Near-simultaneous truck bombs devastated the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. More than two hundred died, most of them Africans. A Saudi millionaire named Osama bin Laden, living in Afghanistan, took credit. Bill Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes in response. The war that would define the next decade had begun.
In context
Also in 1998 (5 other events on record)
- Google founded · North America · Technology
- Good Friday Agreement · Europe · Politics
- India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons · South Asia · War
- Clinton impeached · North America · Politics
- Viagra approved · North America · Science
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