A similar bomb attack in Malegaon two years earlier killed 31 people and injured 312.
And the US Marines barracks in Beirut had been blown up two days earlier, killing nearly 300 US and French servicemen.
An attack by guerrillas a few hours earlier killed a soldier and a teenage girl elsewhere in the country.
His 2004 victory was linked to the Islamist train bombings that had rocked Madrid three days earlier, killing 191 people.
John Brooks wrote in 1955 about a tornado that had struck Worcester, Massachusetts, two years earlier, killing ninety people.
El Teo's men had already, in a frenzy a few months earlier, killed seven cops and wounded three in the space of forty-five minutes.
After its discovery, Grenada was dominated for 150 years by the warlike Carib Indians, who had earlier killed off the more peaceful Arawak.
A drone strike a few days earlier killed another militant, this one of Palestinian origin, who was on the F.B.I.'s most wanted list.
The Narita bombing, which occurred 55 minutes earlier, killed two airport workers who were loading baggage onto an Air-India jetliner from a Canadian connecting flight.
An explosion at a mine in West Virginia, which his company had bought a few weeks earlier, killed 12 miners in 2002.
Morakot, which means emerald in Thai, had struck the Philippines earlier, killing 21 people, including a French tourist and 2 Belgian tourists, according to officials there.
