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    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...
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  • extremely large explosions, accidental and intentional, caused by modern high explosives, boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs), older explosives...
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  • in the area in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Black Tom explosion (30 July 1916), Jersey City, New Jersey; act of World War I sabotage...
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    Kurt Jahnke (category Black Reichswehr personnel)
    April 1917 munitions explosion at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, "likely" responsible for the Black Tom explosion in Jersey City, New...
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    ammunition Black Tom explosion of 1916 Port Chicago disaster in World War II Bombay Explosion (1944), explosion on a ship in Bombay Harbour Explosion of the...
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  • as the Black Tom explosion and none in Halifax during the war). The movie does not show the tsunami which followed directly after the explosion, although...
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  • Later, Witzke himself implied that he had taken part in the massive Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor on July 30, 1916, which killed at least four and...
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  • Chesapeake Affair, December 7, 1863 (Perpetrator: British Canada) Black Tom explosion, July 30, 1916 (Perpetrator: German Empire) Battle of Columbus, 1916...
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    largely successful and he probably played some role in planning the Black Tom explosion of 1916. Also in 1915 he bought ammunition and supplied money to...
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    to have been a spectacle more magnificent than the nearby 1916 explosion at Black Tom. From office buildings and tall apartments, people in New York City...
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