The United States launches <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_El_Dorado_Canyon" id="mw5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Operation El Dorado Canyon">Operation El Dorado Canyon</a>, its bombing raids against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Libya_under_Muammar_Gaddafi#Great_Socialist_People's_Libyan_Arab_Jamahiriya_(1977–2012)" id="mw5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi">Libyan targets</a> in response to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin_discotheque_bombing" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="West Berlin discotheque bombing">discotheque bombing in West Germany</a> that killed two U.S. servicemen.