September 16, 1920: Wall Street is bombed. The explosion kills 38 people, and injures over 400.
Although Mario Buda, an Italian anarchist, and an associate of the recently-arrested Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, is now believed to have been the man who dropped off the bomb, this was not figured out until he had escaped back to his native Italy.
Buda continued his anarchist activities until the 1930s, switching sides to help the Fascist government of Benito Mussolini find his former friends. After World War II, he switched back to anarchism, though it's not clear why any side would have trusted him at that point, since any side he was on ended up betrayed and defeated. He died in 1963.
It's not clear when the new decade began to be called "The Roaring Twenties," but this was the kind of roar that no one needed.
To this day, there are still gouges from the shrapnel in the outer wall on the Wall Street side of the House of Morgan, then the headquarters of the company founded by J.P. Morgan, at 23 Wall, across Broad Street from the New York Stock Exchange. The building is mainly empty now, and is basically a monument to the victims of the bombing. However, despite the New York Stock Exchange being literally right across Broad Street, 23 Wall stood in for the Gotham Stock Exchange in the 2012 Batman film The Dark Knight Rises.
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September 16, 1920 was a Thursday. Johanna "Hannie" Schaft, a leading figure in the Dutch Resistance to Nazi Germany in World War II, was born on this day.
And these games were played in what would eventually be called Major League Baseball:
* The New York Yankees lost to the Chicago White Sox, 8-3 at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Babe Ruth went 2-for-5, and Shoeless Joe Jackson went 3-for-5. When the season was over, Ruth had a new record of 54 home runs, while Jackson would never play in "organized ball" again.
* A doubleheader was played at the Polo Grounds in New York. The New York Giants lost the 1st game to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1. The Giants won the 2nd game, 4-0.
* The Brooklyn Robins beat the Cincinnati Reds, 5-3 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. (The Brooklyn team was known as the Robins in honor of their manager, Wilbert Robinson. He was fired after the 1931 season, and one of their former names was restored: The Brooklyn Dodgers.
* The Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 9-5 at Baker Bowl in Philadelphia.
* A doubleheader was played at Braves Field in Boston. The St. Louis Cardinals won the 1st game, 4-3. The Boston Braves won the 2nd game, also 4-3. Rogers Hornsby went 2-for-6 with an RBI over the 2 games.
* The Cleveland Indians beat the Washington Senators, 1-0 at League Park in Cleveland. Tris Speaker went 0-for-2 with a walk.
* The Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-6 in 10 innings, at Navin Field in Detroit. (It would be renamed Briggs Stadium in 1938 and Tiger Stadium in 1961.) Ty Cobb went 2-for-5.
* And the Philadelphia Athletics beat the St. Louis Browns, 8-5 in 11 innings, at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. George Sisler went 1-for-5 with 2 RBIs.
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