What the records say
- When
- 4 Jul 1914
- Kind
- Terrorist attack
- Coordinates
- 40.79° N, 73.95° W
Lexington Avenue explosion
1914 premature explosion of a terrorist bomb on July 4
The Lexington Avenue explosion was the July 4, 1914, explosion of a terrorist bomb in an apartment at 1626 Lexington Avenue in New York City. Members of the Lettish section of the Anarchist Black Cross (ABC) were constructing a bomb in a seven-story tenement when the group's large supply of dynamite exploded prematurely.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: terrorist attacks outside GTD’s yearsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Lexington Avenue bombing: Four people are killed in New York City when an anarchist bomb intended to kill John D. Rockefeller explodes prematurely”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
Nearby in time and place
- The Armory Show opens in New York City17 Feb 1913 · Event
- New York Ripper murders1915 · Murder · Killed 2
- Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915 - 19161915 · Strike
- 1913 Paterson silk strike1913 · Strike
- 1914 Lubin vault fire1914 · Fire
- 1916 New York City polio epidemic1916 · Epidemic
- Lynching of Paulo Boleta1916 · Murder
- 1912 New York City waiters' strike1912 · Strike