Crime History: Washington Navy Yard

On this day, April 20, 1984, terrorists bombed an officers club at the Washington Navy Yard. The club had closed two hours before the 1:50 a.m. blast and no one was injured. Minutes later, news organizations received calls from a woman who played a taped message declaring that the bomb was a protest against U.S. policy in Central American and the Caribbean.

The explosion was the fourth bombing of a government structure within a year, and the second at the Navy Yard.