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Residents in Queens and Roosevelt Island reported shaking buildings and loud sounds on Tuesday morning, which were initally thought to be caused by an explosion Rare earthquake shakes parts of New ...
Black Tom explosion. / 40.69222°N 74.05556°W / 40.69222; -74.05556. The Black Tom explosion was an act of sabotage by agents of the German Empire, to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were to be supplied to the Allies in World War I. The explosions occurred on July 30, 1916, in New York Harbor, killing at least 7 people and wounding ...
News had circulated that Roosevelt was at the hotel, and Schrank (who had been following Roosevelt from New Orleans to Milwaukee) went to the hotel. The ex-president had finished his meal and left the hotel to enter an open car. Roosevelt stood to acknowledge the cheering of the assembled crowd, and Schrank acted. [5] [6] [7]
The "Day of Infamy" speech, sometimes referred to as the Infamy speech, was a speech delivered by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, to a joint session of Congress on December 8, 1941. The previous day, the Empire of Japan attacked United States military bases at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, and declared war on ...
On March 12, 2014, an explosion occurred at 9:31 a.m. [ 1] in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The explosion leveled two apartment buildings located just north of 116th Street at 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue, [ 2] killing eight people, injuring at least 70 others, and displacing 100 families. [ 1][ 4][ 5 ...
New London School explosion. The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the London School in New London, Texas, United States. [ 1] The disaster killed more than 300 students and teachers. As of 2021, the event is the third-deadliest disaster in the history of Texas ...
USS. Potomac. (AG-25) / 37.79528°N 122.280111°W / 37.79528; -122.280111. USS Potomac (AG-25), formerly USCGC Electra, [ 4] was Franklin D. Roosevelt 's presidential yacht from 1936 until his death in 1945. On August 3, 1941, she played a decoy role while Roosevelt held a secret conference to develop the Atlantic Charter .
June 7, 2018 - Seven people were injured in an explosion, at a two-day-old gas well that had recently started drilling to the deep Marcellus shale formation, in Moundsville. [212] December 8, 2020 - An explosion occurred at a Chemours plant in Belle, West Virginia. A plant worker was tragically killed and 3 other people were injured. [213]