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The Black Tom explosion was an act of arson by field agents of the Office of Naval Intelligence of the German Empire, to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were about to be shipped to the Allies during World War I. The explosions occurred on July 30, 1916, in New York Harbor, killing at least 7 people and wounding hundreds more. [1]
Smederevo Fortress explosion, the Wehrmacht stockpile of captured ammunition and gasoline at Smederevo Fortress exploded due to unknown reasons; Joliet Army Ammunition Plant explosion, a 1942 explosion that was felt 100 miles away; Air raid on Bari, a port disaster in Italy in 1943; SS El Estero, ammunition ship that caught fire in New York ...
Senator Gerald Nye (R-North Dakota), Head of the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee. The Nye Committee, officially known as the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, was a United States Senate committee (April 12, 1934 – February 24, 1936), chaired by U.S. Senator Gerald Nye (R-ND).
The New York City Sheriff's Office (NYCSO), officially the Office of the Sheriff of the City of New York, is the primary civil law enforcement agency for New York City. [1] The Sheriff 's Office is a division of the New York City Department of Finance , operating as an enforcement arm. [ 2 ]
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Police arrested a man they said set a woman on fire while she appeared to be asleep on a New York City subway train on Sunday morning, killing her. The woman, who has not been ...
New York City This hole-in-the-wall in the Financial District is the place to stop in for a giant Italian deli sandwich that’s large enough to feed two to three people.
In the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, on the same day as the Seaside Park bombing, a pressure cooker bomb filled with shrapnel, in the form of small bearings or metal BBs, [6] exploded in a crowded area on West 23rd Street, between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue at 8:31 p.m. [1] [6] [7] The explosion occurred in ...
"A Complete Unknown" is a drama of scruffy naturalism, with a plot that doesn’t so much unfold as lope right along with its legendary, curly-haired, sunglass-wearing coffee-house troubadour hero.