| Incident | Date | Location | Deaths | Injuries | Perpetrator | Notes |
| MV Dara | 1961 | Southwest Asia, Persian Gulf | 238 | | Unknown; possibly Omani separatists | |
| McGurk's Bar bombing | 1971 | Belfast, Northern Ireland | 15 | 17 | Ulster Volunteer Force | |
| Lod Airport massacre | 1972 | Tel Aviv, Israel | 26 | 80 | Japanese Red Army | |
| Munich massacre | 1972 | Munich, West Germany | 23 | | Black September Organization | |
| Birmingham pub bombings | 1974 | Birmingham, England | 21 | 182 | Provisional Irish Republican Army | |
| Dublin and Monaghan bombings | 1974 | Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland | 34 | 300 | Ulster Volunteer Force | |
| Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 bombing | 1976 | Over the Caribbean Sea | 73 | 0 | Anti-Communists | |
| Cinema Rex fire | 1978 | Abadan, Iran | 377-470+ | 200+ | 4 men | The theatre was doused in airplane fuel, locked and started on fire as 700 people were trapped inside |
| Bologna massacre | 1980 | Bologna Centrale railway station, Italy | 85 | 200+ | Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari | |
| 1983 Beirut barracks bombing | 1983 | Beirut, Lebanon | 307 | 150 | Islamic Jihad Organization, Iranian Ministry of Intelligence | |
| Brighton hotel bombing | 1984 | Grand Brighton Hotel, England | 5 | 31 | Provisional Irish Republican Army | Attempted assassination of the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher. |
| Air India Flight 182 bombing | 1985 | Over the Atlantic Ocean | 329 | 0 | Babbar Khalsa | |
| Rome and Vienna Airport attacks | 1985 | Leonardo da Vinci Airport and Vienna International Airport | 19 | | Abu Nidal Organization | |
| Pan Am Flight 103 | 1988 | Lockerbie, Scotland | 270 | 0 | Libya | All 259 people on the plane were killed, as well as eleven others on-ground. |
| Massacre of Trujillo | 1988–1990 | Trujillo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia | 200–400 | | Paramilitary groups and Cali Cartel members | |
| UTA Flight 772 | 1989 | Near Termit Massif, Niger | 170 | 0 | Libya | A suitcase bomb was planted on the plane, before detonating mid-flight, causing the plane to break up. |