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The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, California, United States, on October 1, 1910, by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers (IW). The explosion started a fire which killed 21 occupants and injured 100 more.
Born. 1882. Died. March 8, 1941. (1941-03-08) (aged 58–59) Known for. Los Angeles Times bombing. James B. McNamara (AKA J.B. McNamara or JB) (1882 – March 8, 1941) was a 20th-century American labor unionist, best known for his involvement in the McNamara Case as the bomber of the Los Angeles Times building.
Los Angeles Times building (1887–1910), located on the northwest corner of 1st and Broadway; this is the building that was destroyed in the deadly Los Angeles Times bombing of 1910; Los Angeles Times building (1912–1934), new construction on the same site as previous, rebuilt as a four-story building with "castle-like" clock tower; Los ...
Muharem Kurbegović (born 1943), also known as The Alphabet Bomber, is an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who was a terrorist. His most notable act was a 1974 bombing of the Los Angeles International Airport on August 6, 1974, killing three and injuring thirty-six. Kurbegovic was nicknamed "The Alphabet Bomber" because of his alleged plan ...
Cover of The New York Times reporting on the Wall Street bombing. The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another 10 later died of wounds that they sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of ...
Date. 24–25 February 1942. Location. Los Angeles, California, U.S. Casualties and losses. 5 civilians died. 3 died in car accident. 2 died of heart attack. The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to a rumored attack on the continental United States by Imperial Japan ...
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) was a target of the plots.. A series of Islamist terrorist attacks linked to al-Qaeda were planned to occur on or near January 1, 2000, in the context of millennium celebrations, including bombing plots against four tourist sites in Jordan, the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), USS The Sullivans, and the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El Segundo since 2018, [4] it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States, as well as the largest newspaper in the western United States. [5]