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Events on Wednesday 21 December 1988 1
1988Pan Am Flight 103 bombed over LockerbieTerrorist bombing kills 270 peopleA bomb concealed in luggage destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground. The attack was later linked to Libyan intelligence agents. It remains the deadliest terrorist attack in British history.