| Conflict: | Nicosia Cinema Bombing |
| Partof: | the Cyprus Emergency |
| Date: | 24 May 1955 |
| Place: | Nicosia, British Cyprus |
| Result: | unsuccessful assassination attempt |
| Combatant2: | EOKA |
| Commander1: | Governor Sir Robert Armitage |
| Commander2: | Markos Drakos Grigoris Afxentiou |
The Nicosia Cinema Bombing took place on 24 May 1955. A cinema in Nicosia was bombed by the EOKA as part of an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate British governor Sir Robert Armitage. The bomb went off a few yards from where Armitage had been sitting a few minutes earlier; however by the time of the explosion most of the cinema had been vacated. The cinema had been screening the movie Forbidden Cargo on Empire Day as a fundraiser for the British Legion Fund.[1] [2] [3]