US Marines help at the site of the terrorist bombing of the American embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The bombing took place on the 18th of April, 1983; this image is from the 29th.
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On this day: the 1983 US embassy attack
On the 18th of April, 1983 a car bomb was detonated by a suicide attacker outside the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Sixty-three people were killed and over a hundred injured.
The bombing came after America and other Western countries intervened in the Lebanese Civil War. The victims included over thirty Lebanese employees, seventeen Americans, and various passersby.
The attack was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Organisation, a pro-Iranian group.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan view the caskets of the Americans killed. X
Following the bombing, the US embassy was moved to an allegedly safer location.
However, the new embassy was bombed by Islamic militant group Hezbollah the following year, killing another twenty-four people.
The Lebanese Civil War continued until 1990.
On this day: the theft of the Peacock Throne
On the 22nd of March, 1739 Nader Shah of Persia (Iran) sacked the Indian city of Delhi and stole the jewels of the famous Peacock Throne. The seat of the Mughal emperors who ruled the north of India, the throne was never seen again.
Nader Shah
A replacement throne was made, and existed until a rebellion in 1857.
