Wall Street bombing
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The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds.Template:R
The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe the Wall Street bombing was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. The attack was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles, and anti-capitalist agitation in the United States.
The Wall Street bomb killed more people than the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, which was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that point.Template:R The death toll was exceeded in the Tulsa Race Riot in 1921.
See also
- Animal-borne bomb attacks
- Domestic terrorism in the United States
- No God, No Master
- 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing
- 1919 United States anarchist bombings
