This Day in True Crime — November 7, 1983 The Bombing of the U.S. Senate On the night of November 7, 1983, a powerful bomb exploded outside the Capitol’s north wing — just steps from the Senate Chamber. The device detonated after closing time, so no one was killed, but the blast blew doors off their hinges, shattered mirrors, and sent marble fragments flying across hallways of Congress. A far-left militant group called the “Armed Resistance Unit,” linked to the May 19th Communist Organization, l