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1985 Copenhagen bombings
On 22 July 1985, two bombs exploded in a terrorist attack in Copenhagen, Denmark. One of the bombs exploded near the Great Synagogue and a Jewish nursing home and kindergarten, and another at the offices of Northwest Orient Airlines.
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- Abu Talb, Marten Imandi, Mahmoud Mougrabi, Hezbollah
- Where
- Copenhagen, Denmark
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Arab bomb attack on the Copenhagen Synagogue
Arab attackers carried out a bombing attempt against the Copenhagen Synagogue in 1985. Strong security has been kept around Jewish institutions since.
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- Arab attackers
- Where
- Copenhagen, Denmark
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Civil litigation
On 24 December 1985, David Lewis Rice, a follower of the right-wing extremist group the Duck Club, gained entry to the Seattle home of civil litigation attorney Charles Goldmark using a toy gun and pretending to be a deliveryman. He tied the family up, chloroformed them into unconsciousness, beat them with a steam iron, and stabbed them.
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- Unknown
- Where
- United States
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Murder of Leon Klinghoffer on the Achille Lauro
During the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, an invalid Jewish passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and thrown overboard.
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- Hijackers of the Achille Lauro
- Where
- Italy
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Murder of the Goldmark family
On December 24, 1985 (Christmas Eve), David Lewis Rice murdered the entire Goldmark family at their house in Seattle, believing the father Charles Goldmark was a major Jewish Communist official plotting to surrender America to a World Communist government. John E. Goldmark was a leading Democratic local leader.
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- David Lewis Rice
- Where
- Seattle, Washington, United States
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Ronald Reagan visited a German military cemetery in Bitburg to lay a wreath with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. It was determined that the cemetery held the graves of forty-nine members of the Waffen-SS.
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- Nazi Germany
- Where
- Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Vatican document first mentions Holocaust and Israel
In November the Vatican released a document on Jewish-Christian relations which, among its reconciling statements, referred for the first time to the Holocaust and to Israel as a state.
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- Unknown
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Abduction of Beirut Jewish leaders by Shi'i faction
A radical Shi'i group abducted 11 prominent Jews, including community head Isaac Sasson; four were found dead and seven were never accounted for.
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- Organization of the Oppressed on Earth
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Damage to the Corfu synagogue doors
During the Lebanon War, the doors of the synagogue in Corfu were damaged in one of several antisemitic incidents of the 1980s.
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- Unknown
- Where
- Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece
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Holocaust memorial in Larissa defaced
The Holocaust martyrs' memorial in Larissa was repeatedly defaced with antisemitic graffiti during the 1980s.
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- Unknown
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20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt
20th century departures of foreign nationals from Egypt: exodus of Europeans from Egypt.
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- Unknown
- Where
- Egypt
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