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The T. A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant explosion, sometimes called the Morgan Munitions Depot explosion or similar titles, began at 7:36 pm EDT on Friday, October 4, 1918, at a World War I ammunition plant in the Morgan area of Sayreville in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The initial explosion, generally believed to be ...
The outer wall of Jersey City's City Hall was cracked and the Brooklyn Bridge was shaken. People as far away as Maryland were awakened by what they thought was an earthquake. [19] [20] Property damage from the attack was estimated at $20,000,000 (equivalent to about $578,000,000 in 2024).
Damage done by the bomb at Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's house Mitchell Palmer house in Washington DC 2132 R Street NW after bomb attack June 2, 1919 June 3, 1919, Newspapers of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings. On the evening of June 2, 1919, [3] the Galleanists managed to detonate nine large bombs nearly simultaneously in ...
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Lead azide was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The truck bomb was detonated with lead azide, destroying the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people.
The blast was heard and felt through most of northern New Jersey and in several New York boroughs, including Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. [3] Residents in Mount Sinai, New York, 75 miles (121 km) away, called the police force, as well as residents of White Plains, Port Jefferson and many towns on the north shore of Long Island, Orangetown in Rockland county, Westchester, Nassau County, and ...
The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the aerial bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization.