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Description. July 4, 1914. Bombing. Premature explosion of bombs stored by Anarchist Black Cross. Planned to blow up John D. Rockefeller 's home in Tarrytown, New York. 4. 20. A large quantity of dynamite, and a lot of guns in a backpack which was apparently being used to construct a bomb to blow up John D. Rockefeller's Tarrytown home ...
The original World Trade Center ( WTC) was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of their completion, the Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) at ...
North World Trade Center tower, Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States: 6 1042 Ramzi Yousef, Eyad Ismoil: 1993 Bombay bombings: 1993 Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai, India: 257 1400 D-Company: Greysteel massacre: 1993 Greysteel, Northern Ireland: 8 19 Ulster Defence Association (UDA) AMIA bombing: 1994 Buenos Aires, Argentina: 86 ...
4,200 aircraft [6] During World War II, Allied forces conducted air raids on Japan from 1942 to 1945, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. During the first years of the Pacific War these attacks were limited to the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 and small-scale raids on military ...
On October 31, 2017, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov drove a rented pickup truck into cyclists and runners for about one mile (1.6 kilometers) of the Hudson River Park 's bike path alongside West Street from Houston Street south to Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The vehicle-ramming attack killed eight people, six of whom were ...
New York City landmark bomb plot. The New York City landmark bomb plot was a plan to follow up the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was designed to inflict mass casualties on American soil by attacking well-known landmark targets throughout New York City, United States. If the attack had been successful, thousands likely would have ...
George Peter Metesky (November 2, 1903 – May 23, 1994), better known as the Mad Bomber, was an American electrician and mechanic who terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries and offices. Bombs were left in phone booths, storage lockers and restrooms in ...
May 11, 2024 at 9:31 AM. NEW YORK - Thousands of people celebrated Japanese culture Saturday in Manhattan for NYC’s Japan Parade. If you're wondering why you haven't heard of this parade, it ...