Marines bombed in Beirut
1983 · Event
Truck bomb kills 241 US service members (mostly Marines) at Beirut airport.
On these timelines: Master, Cold War, The Levant
Around 1983
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)