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Ted Kaczynski, ask known as the Unabomber, was born on the 22nd of May in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1958, he graduated from Evergreen Park High School, with an interesting in Math and creating small explosive devices. He entered Harvard University in 1958 and graduates 3 years later. In 1967 Kaczynski enters the University of Michigan and graduates in 1967 and soon becomes an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He quits UC-Berkeley without explanation in 1969.
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In 1978, a package found in the University of Illinois parking lot is taken to Northwestern University and explodes when opened by a security guard.
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On May 9, John Harris, a graduate student at Northwestern University is injured by a bomb.
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On Nov. 15, a bomb explodes in the cargo hold of an American Airlines 727 during flight. The airplane makes an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport. Twelve people suffer smoke inhalation.
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On June 10, United Airlines president, Percy Wood, is injured by a mail bomb at his home near Chicago.
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On Oct. 8, a bomb is found in a classroom at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
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On May 5, Janet Smith, a secretary at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, is injured by a bomb mailed from Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City. Addressee was Patrick Fischer.
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On July 2, Diogenes Agelakos, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is injured at UC-Berkeley.
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On Aug. 25, Kaczynski sets fire to logging equipment 10 miles from home, causing $75,000 in damage.
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On May 15, John Hauser is injured by a bomb at UC-Berkeley.
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On June 13, a package-bomb mailed to Boeing in Auburn, Wash., is discovered and disarmed.
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On Nov. 15, a package-bomb mailed to University of Michigan professor James McConnell, injures Nicklaus Suino.
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On Dec. 11, Hugh Scutton is killed by a bomb near his computer store in Sacramento.
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Gary Wright is injured by a bomb left in a computer story parking lot in Salt Lake City. An eyewitness account of a man in a hooded sweatshirt becomes the famous Unabomber sketch.
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Charles Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California at San Francisco, is injured by a bomb sent to his home.
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David Gelernter, a computer scientist at Yale University, is injured by a package-bomb postmarked Sacramento.
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Advertising executive Thomas Mosser is killed at home in North Caldwell, N.J., by a package-bomb mailed from San Francisco.
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California Forestry Association President, Gilbert Murray, is killed opening a package-bomb at the association's Sacramento headquarters.
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The Washington Post and The New York Times jointly publish the Unabomber's manifesto after he promises to stop his attacks.
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Kaczynski is taken into custody at his Montana cabin and is found possessing bomb components and is held without bail.
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The Unabomber is sentenced to life in prison and ordered to pay his victims $15 million. He is in the federal prison in Florence, Colo.
