1973 Westminster bombing

Car bomb explosion in Millbank, London April 2022 the Troubles 1973 Westminster bombing City Inn Thorney Street - geograph.org.uk - 1364837.jpg Thorney Street, looking south from the location of the blast City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom it 51 29 38.36 N 0 7 33.94 W scale:3125_region:GB 18 December 1973 08:50 UTC Car bomb 0 60 Provisional Irish Republican Army The 1973 Westminster bombing was a car bomb that exploded on Thorney Street, off Horseferry Road, in Millbank, London on 18 December 1973.https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1973/dec/18/bomb-incidents-london BOMB INCIDENTS (LONDON) (Hansard, 18 December 1973) api.parliament.uk The explosion injured up to 60 people. The bomb was planted in a stolen car parked in front of the Home Office building when it exploded on Tuesday morning. Two telephone warnings were given within half an hour before the blast. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) was responsible for the attack, which was assumed to have been in retaliation for the jailing of the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade members who bombed the Old Bailey earlier in the year. A day earlier, the IRA sent two parcel bombs that targeted two politicians.Peterson Robert William Chrisman Willard George March 1977 1977 International terrorism threat analysis https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/18157/internationalter00pete.pdf?sequence=1 live calhoun.nps.edu https://web.archive.org/web/20180429024416/https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/18157/internationalter00pete.pdf?sequence=1 2018-04-29 https://books.google.com/books?id=vXJKCAAAQBAJ&dq=%2218+December+1973%22+bomb+london&pg=PA47 International Terrorism and World Security David Carlton Carlo Schaerf 17 April 2015 Routledge 9781317480471 Google Books It was one of many IRA car bombings in Northern Ireland and England during the Troubles. Aftermath In the week following the Westminster car bomb, several more IRA bombs exploded in London. The day after the Westminster bombing on 19 December, one person was injured when an IRA letterbomb exploded at a London postal sorting office. Five days later on Christmas Eve 1973, the IRA bombed two London pubs, first the North Star public house, where six people were injured & the second at the Swiss Cottage Tavern, in which an unspecified number of people were injured. The last bombs exploded on Boxing Day 1973 when the Stage Door public house was bombed injuring one person, on the same day another bomb exploded at Sloane Square station there were no injuries in this attack. McGladdery Gary The Provisional IRA in England Irish Academic Press 2006 0-7165-3373-1 236Two more bomb attacks in London David Leigh http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/441/584/86351936w16/purl=rc1_TTDA_0_CS18577819&dyn=10!xrn_3_0_CS18577819&hst_1?sw_aep=buc_ttda Times Newspaper archive 27 December 1973 4 September 2010 See also Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions (1970–79) References collapsed Category:1973 crimes in the United Kingdom Category:1973 in London Category:1973 explosions Category:1970s crimes in London Category:Crime in Westminster Category:Provisional IRA bombings in London Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in London Category:Terrorist incidents in the United Kingdom in 1973 Category:December 1973 in the United Kingdom Category:Building bombings in London