When was the bombing for which The Balmoral Furniture Company bombing was thought to be a retaliation for?
1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing The Balmoral Furniture Company bombing was a paramilitary attack that took place on 11 December 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A bomb exploded without warning outside a furniture showroom on the Shankill Road in a predominantly unionist area, killing four civilians, two of them babies. It is widely believed that the bombing was carried out by members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in retaliation for the bombing of McGurk's pub a week earlier, which killed 15 Catholic civilians. The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) had carried out that bombing.
Bombing of the Soji-ji Ossuary The Bombing of the Soji-ji Ossuary (総持寺納骨堂爆破事件 , Sōjiji Nōkotsudō Bakuha Jiken ) was a terrorist bomb attack in Yokohama, Japan that occurred on 6 April 1972. It was undertaken by a group which would soon be known as the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, though this name was not decided on until later in the same year.