List of mass car bombings
Mass car bombings ( by date ) -- 1900–1969
Table:
Date (YYYY/MM/DD)
Country
Place
Deaths
Type
Perpetrator/
Suspected perpetrator
Article/Source

1965/03/30

South Vietnam

US Embassy, Saigon

21

car bomb

[32]

1962/05/02

Algeria

Algiers

62

car bomb

[33]

1948/03/11

British Mandate for Palestine

Jewish Agency, Jerusalem

11

car bomb

1948/03/02

British Mandate for Palestine

Office building, Haifa

14

truck bomb

1948/02/22

British Mandate for Palestine

Ben Yehuda Street, Jerusalem

52–80

truck bombs (2)

Ben Yehuda Street Bombing

1948/01/04

British Mandate for Palestine

Jaffa

18

truck bomb

1947/04/25

British Mandate for Palestine

Sarona police compound, Tel Aviv

5

truck bomb

1947/01/12

British Mandate for Palestine

Haifa

4

truck bomb

1927/05/18

United States

Bath Township, Michigan

39

suicide car bomb

Andrew Kehoe

Bath School disaster

1920/09/16

United States

Wall Street, New York City

38

wagon bomb

Wall Street bombing

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A month is a unit of time , used with calendars , which is approximately as long as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon ; month and Moon are cognates . The traditional concept arose with the cycle of Moon phases ; such months ( lunations ) are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days . From excavated tally sticks , researchers have deduced that people counted days in relation to the Moon 's phases as early as the Paleolithic age . Synodic months , based on the Moon 's orbital period with respect to the Earth-Sun line , are still the basis of many calendars today , and are used to divide the year .
A day is approximately the period of time during which the Earth completes one rotation around its axis . A solar day is the length of time which elapses between the Sun reaching its highest point in the sky two consecutive times . Days on other planets are defined similarly and vary in length due to differing rotation periods , that of Mars being slightly longer and sometimes called a sol . In 1960 , the second was redefined in terms of the orbital motion of the Earth in the year 1900 , and was designated the SI base unit of time . The unit of measurement day , was redefined as 86,400 SI seconds and symbolized d. In 1967 , the second and so the day were redefined by atomic electron transition . A civil day is usually 86,400 seconds , plus or minus a possible leap second in Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) , and occasionally plus or minus an hour in those locations that change from or to daylight saving time . Day can be defined as each of the twenty-four-hour periods , reckoned from one midnight to the next , into which a week , month , or year is divided , and corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis . However , its use depends on its context ; for example , when people say 'day and night ' , 'day ' will have a different meaning : the interval of light between two successive nights , the time between sunrise and sunset ; the time of light between one night and the next . For clarity when meaning 'day ' in that sense , the word daytime may be used instead , though context and phrasing often makes the meaning clear . The word day may also refer to a day of the week or to a calendar date , as in answer to the question , On which day ? The life patterns ( circadian rhythms ) of humans and many other species are related to Earth 's solar day and the day-night cycle .
South Vietnam , officially the Republic of Vietnam ( RVN ; Vietnamese : Việt Nam Cộng Hòa ; French : République du Viêt Nam ) , was a country that existed from 1955 to 1975 , the period when the southern portion of Vietnam was a member of the Western Bloc during part of the Cold War . It received international recognition in 1949 as the State of Vietnam ( a self-governing entity in the French Empire ) , which was a constitutional monarchy ( 1949-1955 ) . The country was renamed the Republic of Vietnam in 1955 . Its capital was Saigon ( now Ho Chi Minh City ) . South Vietnam was bordered by North Vietnam to the north , Laos to the northwest , Cambodia to the southwest , Thailand across the Gulf of Thailand to the southwest , and the Philippines , Malaysia , Brunei , and Indonesia across the South China Sea to the east and southeast . The Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed on 26 October 1955 , with Ngô Đình Diệm as its first president , after having briefly served as premier under Emperor Bảo Đại who was exiled . Its sovereignty was recognized by the United States and 87 other nations . It had membership in several special committees of the United Nations , but its application for full membership was rejected in 1957 because of a Soviet veto ( neither South nor North Vietnam were members of the UN during the Vietnam War , but the united Vietnam became a member state in 1977 ) . South Vietnam 's origins can be traced to the French colony of Cochinchina , which consisted of the southern third of Vietnam which was Cochinchina [ Nam Kỳ ] , a subdivision of French Indochina , and the southern half of Central Vietnam or Annam [ Trung Kỳ ] which was a French protectorate . After the Second World War , the anti-Japanese Việt Minh guerrilla forces , led by Ho Chi Minh , proclaimed the establishment of a Democratic Republic of Vietnam in Hanoi in September 1945 , issuing a Declaration of Independence modeled on the US one from 1776 . In 1949 , anti-communist Vietnamese politicians formed a rival government in Saigon led by former emperor Bảo Đại . Bảo Đại was deposed by Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm in 1955 , who proclaimed himself president after a referendum .
The United States Embassy in Saigon was first established in June 1952 , and moved into a new building in 1967 and eventually closed in 1975 . The embassy was the scene of a number of significant events of the Vietnam War , most notably the Viet Cong attack during the Tet Offensive which helped turn American public opinion against the war , and the helicopter evacuation during the Fall of Saigon after which the embassy closed permanently . In 1995 , the U.S. and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam formally established relations and the embassy grounds and building were handed back to the United States . The former embassy was subsequently demolished in 1998 and is currently a park inside of the U.S. Consulate General 's compound in what is now called Ho Chi Minh City .
Algeria ( /ælˈdʒɪəriə/ ( listen ) al-JEER-ee-ə ) is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa . The capital and most populous city is Algiers , located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast . With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres ( 919,595 sq mi ) , Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world , and the largest in the African Union and Arab World . With an estimated population of over 42 million , it is among the ten most populous states in Africa . Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia , to the east by Libya , to the west by Morocco , to the southwest by the Western Saharan territory , Mauritania , and Mali , to the southeast by Niger , and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea . It is a semi-presidential republic consisting of 48 provinces and 1,541 communes ( counties ) . Pre-1962 Algeria has known many empires and dynasties , including ancient Numidians , Phoenicians , Carthaginians , Romans , Vandals , Byzantines , Umayyads , Abbasids , Idrisid , Aghlabid , Rustamid , Fatimids , Zirid , Hammadids , Almoravids , Almohads , Zayyanids , Spaniards , Ottomans and , finally , the French colonial empire . Algeria is a regional and middle power . It has the highest human development index of all non-island African countries and one of the largest economies on the continent , based largely on energy exports . Algeria has the 16th largest oil reserves in the world and the second largest in Africa , while it has the ninth largest reserves of natural gas . Sonatrach , the national oil company , is the largest company in Africa , supplying large amounts of natural gas to Europe . Algeria has one of the largest militaries in Africa and the largest defence budget .
Algiers ( /ælˈdʒɪərz/ al-JEERZ ; Arabic : الجزائر , romanized : Al-Jazāʾir ; French : Alger ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria . The city 's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145 and in 2011 was estimated to be around 3,500,000 . An estimate puts the population of the larger metropolitan city to be around 5,000,000 . Algiers is located on the Mediterranean Sea and in the north-central portion of Algeria . Algiers is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea . The modern part of the city is built on the level ground by the seashore ; the old part , the ancient city of the deys , climbs the steep hill behind the modern town and is crowned by the casbah or citadel , 122 metres ( 400 ft ) above the sea . The casbah and the two quays form a triangle .
Mandatory Palestine [ a ] Pālēśtīnā ( EY ) , where EY indicates Eretz Yisrael Land of Israel ) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the Mandate for Palestine . During the First World War ( 1914-18 ) , an Arab uprising and the British Empire 's Egyptian Expeditionary Force under General Edmund Allenby drove the Turks out of the Levant during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign . The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence if they revolted against the Ottomans , but the two sides had different interpretations of this agreement , and in the end , the UK and France divided up the area under the Sykes-Picot Agreement - an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs . Further complicating the issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917 , promising British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine . At the war 's end the British and French set up a joint Occupied Enemy Territory Administration in what had been Ottoman Syria . The British achieved legitimacy for their continued control by obtaining a mandate from the League of Nations in June 1922 . The formal objective of the League of Nations mandate system was to administer parts of the defunct Ottoman Empire , which had been in control of the Middle East since the 16th century , until such time as they are able to stand alone . During the British Mandate period the area experienced the ascent of two major nationalist movements , one among the Jews and the other among the Palestinian Arabs . The competing national interests of the two populations against each other and against the governing British authorities matured into the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 and the Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine , before culminating in the 1947-1949 Palestine war . This led to the establishment of the 1949 cease-fire agreement , with partition of the former Mandatory Palestine between the newborn state of Israel with a Jewish majority , the Arab West Bank annexed by the Jordanian Kingdom and the Arab All-Palestine Protectorate in the Gaza Strip under Egypt .
Jerusalem [ note 2 ] is a city in the Middle East , located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea . It is one of the oldest cities in the world , and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions - Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority claim Jerusalem as their capital , as Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there and the State of Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power ; however , neither claim is widely recognized internationally . [ note 3 ] During its long history , Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice , besieged 23 times , captured and recaptured 44 times , and attacked 52 times . The part of Jerusalem called the City of David shows first signs of settlement in the 4th millennium BCE , in the shape of encampments of nomadic shepherds . Jerusalem was named as Urusalim on ancient Egyptian tablets , probably meaning City of Shalem after a Canaanite deity , during the Canaanite period ( 14th century BCE ) . During the Israelite period , significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE ( Iron Age II ) , and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah . In 1538 , the city walls were rebuilt for a last time around Jerusalem under Suleiman the Magnificent . Today those walls define the Old City , which has been traditionally divided into four quarters - known since the early 19th century as the Armenian , Christian , Jewish , and Muslim Quarters . The Old City became a World Heritage Site in 1981 , and is on the List of World Heritage in Danger . Since 1860 Jerusalem has grown far beyond the Old City 's boundaries . In 2015 , Jerusalem had a population of some 850,000 residents , comprising approximately 200,000 secular Jewish Israelis , 350,000 Haredi Jews and 300,000 Palestinians .
Haifa ( Hebrew : חֵיפָה Ḥefa [ χeˈfa ] ; Arabic : حيفا Ḥayfa ) is the third-largest city in Israel - after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv - with a population of 283,640 in 2018 . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area , the second- or third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel . It is home to the Baháʼí World Centre , and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a destination for Baháʼí pilgrims . Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel , the settlement has a history spanning more than 3,000 years . The earliest known settlement in the vicinity was Tell Abu Hawam , a small port city established in the Late Bronze Age ( 14th century BCE ) . In the 3rd century CE , Haifa was known as a dye-making center . Over the millennia , the Haifa area has changed hands : being conquered and ruled by the Canaanites , Israelites , Phoenicians , Persians , Hasmoneans , Romans , Byzantines , Arabs , Crusaders , Ottomans , and the British . Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 , the Haifa Municipality has governed the city . As of 2016 [ update ] , the city is a major seaport located on Israel 's Mediterranean coastline in the Bay of Haifa covering 63.7 square kilometres ( 24.6 sq mi ) . It lies about 90 kilometres ( 56 mi ) north of Tel Aviv and is the major regional center of northern Israel . According to researcher Jonathan Kis-Lev , Haifa is considered a relative haven for coexistence between Jews and Arabs . Two respected academic institutions , the University of Haifa and the Technion , are located in Haifa , in addition to the largest K-12 school in Israel , the Hebrew Reali School .
Ben Yehuda Street ( Hebrew : רחוב בן יהודה ) , known as the Midrachov ( Hebrew : מדרחוב ) is a major street in downtown Jerusalem , Israel . It joins with Jaffa Road and King George Street to form the Downtown Triangle central business district . It is now a pedestrian mall and closed to vehicular traffic . The street runs from the intersection of King George Street east to Zion Square and Jaffa Road . The street is named after the founder of Modern Hebrew , Eliezer Ben-Yehuda .
Jaffa , in Hebrew Yafo ( Hebrew : יָפוֹ , Yāfō ( help·info ) ) and in Arabic Yafa ( Arabic : يَافَا ) and also called Japho or Joppa , the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo , is an ancient port city in Israel . Jaffa is famous for its association with the biblical stories of Jonah , Solomon and Saint Peter as well as the mythological story of Andromeda and Perseus , and later for its oranges .
Tel Aviv-Yafo , often referred to as just Tel Aviv , is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel . Located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline and with a population of 451,523 , it is the economic and technological center of the country . If East Jerusalem is considered part of Israel , Tel Aviv is the country 's second most populous city after Jerusalem ; if not , Tel Aviv is the most populous city before West Jerusalem . [ a ] Tel Aviv is governed by the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality , headed by Mayor Ron Huldai , and is home to many foreign embassies . [ b ] It is a global city and is ranked 25th in the Global Financial Centres Index . Tel Aviv has the third- or fourth-largest economy and the largest economy per capita in the Middle East . The city has the 31st highest cost of living in the world . Tel Aviv receives over 2.5 million international visitors annually . A party capital in the Middle East , it has a lively nightlife and 24-hour culture . Tel Aviv has been called The World 's Vegan Food Capital , as it possesses the highest per capita population of vegans in the world , with many vegan eateries throughout the city . Tel Aviv is home to Tel Aviv University , the largest university in the country with more than 30,000 students . The city was founded in 1909 by the Yishuv ( Jewish residents ) as a modern housing estate on the outskirts of the ancient port city of Jaffa , then part of the Jerusalem province of Ottoman Syria .
The United States of America ( USA ) , commonly known as the United States ( U.S. or US ) or America , is a country consisting of 50 states , a federal district , five major self-governing territories , and various possessions . [ g ] At 3.8 million square miles ( 9.8 million km2 ) , it is the world 's third or fourth-largest country by total area [ b ] and is slightly smaller than the entire continent of Europe . Most of the country is located in central North America between Canada and Mexico . With an estimated population of over 328 million , the U.S. is the third most populous country in the world . The capital is Washington , D.C. , and the most populous city is New York City . Paleo-Indians migrated from Siberia to the North American mainland at least 12,000 years ago . European colonization began in the 16th century . The United States emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East Coast . Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies led to the American Revolutionary War lasting between 1775 and 1783 , leading to independence . The United States embarked on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th century - gradually acquiring new territories , displacing Native Americans , and admitting new states - until by 1848 it spanned the continent . During the second half of the 19th century , the American Civil War led to the abolition of slavery in the United States . The Spanish-American War and World War I confirmed the country 's status as a global military power .
Bath Charter Township is a charter township of Clinton County in the U.S. state of Michigan . As of the 2010 census , the township population was 11,598 , an increase from 7,541 in 2000 . It is situated directly north of the city of East Lansing .
A suicide attack is any violent attack in which the attacker accepts their own death as a direct result of the method used to harm , damage , or destroy the target . Suicide attacks have occurred throughout history , often as part of a military campaign such as the Japanese kamikaze pilots of World War II , and more recently as part of terrorist campaigns , such as the September 11 attacks . While there were few , if any , successful suicide attacks anywhere in the world from the end of World War II until 1980 , between 1981 and September 2015 , a total of 4,814 suicide attacks occurred in over 40 countries , killing over 45,000 people . During this time the global rate of such attacks grew from an average of three a year in the 1980s , to about one a month in the 1990s , to almost one a week from 2001 to 2003 , to approximately one a day from 2003 to 2015 . Suicide attacks tend to be more deadly and destructive than other terror attacks because they give their perpetrators the ability to conceal weapons , make last-minute adjustments , and because they dispense with the need for remote or delayed detonation , escape plans or rescue teams . They constituted only 4% of all terrorist attacks around the world over one period ( between 1981 and 2006 ) , but caused 32% of all terrorism-related deaths ( 14,599 ) . Ninety percent of those attacks occurred in Afghanistan , Iraq , Israel , the Palestinian territories , Pakistan , and Sri Lanka . Overall , as of mid-2015 about three-quarters of all suicide attacks occurred in just three countries : Afghanistan , Pakistan , and Iraq . Suicide attacks have been described as a weapon of psychological warfare to instill fear in the target population , a strategy to eliminate or at least drastically diminish areas where the public feels safe , and the fabric of trust that holds societies together , as well as demonstrate the lengths to which perpetrators will go to achieve their goals . The motivation of suicide attackers varies . Kamikaze acted under military orders and were motivated by obedience and nationalism . Before 2003 , most attacks targeted forces occupying the attackers ' homeland , according to analyst Robert Pape .
Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street , at the East River , in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City . Over time , the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole , the American financial services industry ( even if financial firms are not physically located there ) , or New York-based financial interests . Anchored by Wall Street , New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world , and the city is home to the world 's two largest stock exchanges by total market capitalization , the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ . Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Wall Street area , including the New York Mercantile Exchange , the New York Board of Trade , and the former American Stock Exchange .
New York City ( NYC ) , also known as the City of New York or simply New York ( NY ) , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2018 population of 8,398,748 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles ( 784 km2 ) , New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the U.S. state of New York , the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area , the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world 's most populous megacities , with an estimated 19,979,477 people in its 2018 metropolitan statistical area and 22,679,948 residents in its combined statistical area . A global power city , New York City has been described as the cultural , financial , and media capital of the world , and exerts a significant impact upon commerce , entertainment , research , technology , education , politics , tourism , art , fashion , and sports . The city 's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute . Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , New York is an important center for international diplomacy . Situated on one of the world 's largest natural harbors , New York City consists of five boroughs , each of which is a separate county of the State of New York . The five boroughs - Brooklyn , Queens , Manhattan , The Bronx , and Staten Island - were consolidated into a single city in 1898 . The city and its metropolitan area constitute the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States . As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York , making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world . New York City is home to 3.2 million residents born outside the United States , the largest foreign born population of any city in the world as of 2016 . As of 2019 [ update ] , the New York metropolitan area is estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product ( GMP ) of US $ 2.0 trillion .