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On May 10, 1973, a man wearing a black balaclava mask entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Kenora armed with a rifle, a pistol and a homemade bomb consisting of six sticks of dynamite. He held a dead man's switch in his teeth to detonate the bomb. He demanded his shoulder bag and three duffel bags be filled with money.
About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
Part of the track where the explosion took place at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896 The crater created by the dynamite explosion (looking west) at Braamfontein on 19 February 1896. On 16 February 1896, a freight train with eight trucks of dynamite – 2300 cases of 60lb each, or about 60 tonnes – was put in a siding at Braamfontein railway ...
Organized labor found J. J. McNamara an attractive figure to rally behind. By outward appearances, he did not look like a man who would dynamite his enemies. He was 34 years old, handsome, had an athletic build, always well-dressed and well-spoken. He had earned a law degree at night while working for the Iron Workers' Union. [43] J. J.
The Civil Aeronautics Board concluded the severity of Frank's injuries and the numerous particulates found embedded in his body could only be attributed to his proximity to an explosion. [21] Furthermore, the chemical compounds detected in the area around the explosion's point of origin were consistent with those generated by a dynamite explosion.
It was September 15th, 1959, when an ex-convict, 49-year-old Paul Orgeron showed up on the campus of Edgar Allen Poe Elementary with his seven year old son and a suitcase packed with dynamite.
The bombing was perpetrated by 19-year-old Bruce Sisk, who detonated a suitcase filled with dynamite in his wife's jail cell after forcing his way in using a sawed-off shotgun. [ 1 ] 18-year-old Harriet Sisk had been held in the jail, which was in the basement of the courthouse, [ 2 ] awaiting trial after confessing to strangling her 2-month ...
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