Date With History: 2005

The announcement that the city
of London would host the 2012
Olympic Games was made on Wednesday July 6th 2005.

The following morning, as the
UK celebrated this news, a
series of co-ordinated terrorist
 attacks upon the capital's
transport system targeted
innocent civilians.

The first bomb exploded at
8.50 am, on a Circle Line train,
between Liverpool Street and
Aldgate stations. The second
device detonated on another
Circle Line train leaving
Edgware Road. 

A third bomber struck a train leaving King's Cross, on the Piccadilly Line.
About an hour later, a fourth explosion ripped through a double-decker
bus in Tavistock Square.

Fifty-six people, including the four suicide bombers, were killed in the
attacks, and about 700 more were injured.