On this day, at 12:01 p.m., terrorist widely believed to be Galleanist anarchists, set off a bomb in New York's Wall Street district which killed thirty-eight people and injured hundreds more.
The bomb, designed to deploy shrapnel, killed mostly young workers in the district at a time at which young workers were very young. It was left in a horse drawn wagon, with horse still attached, and went off at the busy noon hour.
The direct perpetrators of the act were never discovered.
On the same day, a Polish artillery regiment was destroyed, with some prisoners and wounded, by a Red Army cavalry unit that outnumbered it after it expended all of its ammunition during the Battle of Dytiatyn. The Red Army unit was itself destroyed by Polish forces a few days latter.
The battle became a famous one for the Poles who established a military cemetery there. That was later destroyed by the Soviets following World War Two and the location is now inside of Ukraine.
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