#wallstreethistory

On this day in 1920, a bomb exploded outside Federal Hall on Wall Street, killing 38 people and injuring hundreds more. A man driving a horse-drawn cart had stopped in front of the US Assay Office, next to Federal Hall and across from JP Morgan's headquarters and the Stock Exchange. The many quickly disappeared into the crowd and minutes later the cart exploded, instantly killing 30. The New York Stock Exchange was immediately closed, and JP Morgan's chief clerk was killed. There were many theories into the bombing; attempted assassination of JP Morgan, who turned out to be in Europe; an attempt to rob the Sub Treasury, which planned to transport $900 million in gold bars that day; or communists who wanted to send a message, at the center of American capitalism. The FBI was never able to solve the case but pointed towards Italian anarchists, confirming it was an intentional act of terrorism, then the deadliest in the United States. Today you can still see the damage on the limestone facade of 23 Wall (JP Morgan Building) from the bomb's shrapnel. #onthisday #nyc #wallstreet #wallstreethistory #nyse #nysehistory #stockexchange #newyorkstockexchange #federalhall #jpmorgan #23wall #23wallstreet #nyhistory #nychistory #skyscraper #skyline #fidi #fidinyc #urbanism #urbanhistory #manhatan #downtownnyc #manhattanhistory #nycurbanism (at Wall Street) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFNczTUHiI2/?igshid=sj2tuj4zww37

On this day in 1920, a bomb exploded outside Federal Hall on Wall Street, killing 38 people and injuring hundreds more. A man driving a horse-drawn cart had stopped in front of the US Assay Office, next to Federal Hall and across from JP Morgan's headquarters and the Stock Exchange. The many quickly disappeared into the crowd and minutes later the cart exploded, instantly killing 30. The New York Stock Exchange was immediately closed, and JP Morgan's chief clerk was killed. There were many theories into the bombing; attempted assassination of JP Morgan, who turned out to be in Europe; an attempt to rob the Sub Treasury, which planned to transport $900 million in gold bars that day; or communists who wanted to send a message, at the center of American capitalism. The FBI was never able to solve the case but pointed towards Italian anarchists, confirming it was an intentional act of terrorism, then the deadliest in the United States. Today you can still see the damage on the limestone facade of 23 Wall (JP Morgan Building) from the bomb's shrapnel. #onthisday #nyc #wallstreet #wallstreethistory #nyse #nysehistory #stockexchange #newyorkstockexchange #federalhall #jpmorgan #23wall #23wallstreet #nyhistory #nychistory #skyscraper #skyline #fidi #fidinyc #urbanism #urbanhistory #manhatan #downtownnyc #manhattanhistory #nycurbanism (at Wall Street Historic District) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2e75qZn_Ic/?igshid=h30zh5bg1kez

In the bustling heart of Lower Manhattan on a spring day in 1792, twenty-four shrewd brokers and merchants gathered near a sturdy buttonwood tree — that iconic American sycamore standing sentinel at what would become the beating pulse of global finance. With a simple two-sentence pact scratched out on May 17, they forged the Buttonwood Agreement, laying the cornerstone for what the world now celebrates as the New York Stock Exchange on its rip-roaring 234th birthday. https://rumble.com/v7a0504-buttonwood-rules.html