The 1993 World Trade Center bombing
1993 · Event
A truck bomb in the North Tower's underground garage kills six people and injures over a thousand — planned by Ramzi Yousef, whose uncle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will later conceive the plot that finishes what this one began. The towers stand; the warning is filed away.
On these timelines: 9/11 and the War on Terror, USA, Master
More from 9/11 and the War on Terror
- War on Terror (2001)
- The passengers of Flight 93 (2001)
- 'Either with us, or with the terrorists' (2001)
- Guantánamo opens (2002)
- Powell makes the case at the UN (2003)
Around 1993
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)