The 1916 Black Tom Explosion 

dfc99nyc Fascinating !

I like history and never heard of this. Thanks for sharing. What strange book ends that an 911.

Was he aware of the 9/11 was a false flag event questions. Or was he 100% sure the government never lies?

@@miltonperez3421 I'm 100% certain that your conjecture is meaningless. History is not propaganda, find another place to spew your nonsense.

dfc99nyc My Father Archie Belanger was born in 1908. He lived in Brooklyn. He spoke of it. He was paid a penny a piece for every . 45 A.C.P. bullet that he picked up. My Grandfather helped investigate the fire. He also helped to put it out.

I lived in Union City, and to be fair, I've never met anyone who lived in the area before the 60s, so maybe that's why.

Damn, she died on my Birthday.

The shark attacks you mention in the video are worth talking about on its own....as they are said to have inspired the movie Jaws....am somewhat surprised you didn't mention it in this video

hyfy1970 they are a great story, but they’ve shark weeked already. I didn’t feel that I had anything new to add.

Bruce Hoffman says that terrorism is the use/threat of violence by a non-state actor to achieve political objectives. so.... that's why I'd argue that the (Black Tom) explosion would, technically, should not be categorized as a terrorist attack. The non-state actor part being critically missing from this incident.

898792 the State Department says “subnational groups or clandestine agents.” The fact that they chose to use clandestine agents is meaningful, and why it characterizes as terrorism.

just because you can classify it as a terrorist attack dosnt mean they had no justification for destroying it. the germans had every reasons and every right to attack that military target. not only did they destroy a large cash of ammunition but they also stopped further ammunition from being ship from their for quite some time.

Good for you, Those kids will not get anything close to this unless they are in a Masters Degree program. Sad.

This is a great presentation from The History Guy: First time I've ever heard of this incident.

JAS Aerial Children will remember better when you participate and add to the experience. All kids should have such learning. It turned me into an encyclopedia and I earned the name Poindexter.

History is like movies you research. Very fun

JAS Aerial I use to watch the history channel with my grandson when he was a little kid......I hope he always enjoy history....he is 20 years old now.

There are a bunch of those star-shaped forts up and down the U.S. East Coast. They were built during the late 18th and early 19th centuries for coast defense.

I knew it was shaped like a star fort but didn’t know it had actually been one. Great video!

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@@nikoanton8533 bedlow' the guy who owned the island, was a hugonoet, the statute of liberty was given as gift from France, the guy was an 'Athests" ( He didn't want to say hugunoets or protestant publicly ) The huguneots were persecuted by the Catholic church, 1500 in france, 'the reformation" before the french revolution. St Bartholomew day massacre" ordered by Catherine Medici , aka Queen Margot. 100,000 hugunoets , attacked in the church, in their homes, on the streets. The huguneots lived in 60 " walled cities" Star forts, their emblem. Is a Maltese cross with a dove hanging below. ( star forts strongly resemble the design ) 400,000 left France, for England, Africa, USA, Germany, Russia, where they were welcomed, being exceptional craftsman and silk makers. 21 USA presidents were huguneots, their monuments are all over Washington. Including George Washington himself. The biggest organisation you've never heard of ? There not freemasons, freemason started by brittish soldiers. Nor are they Knights templars. The declaration of independence was put together by whom ? I'll let you guess. The same as Martin Luther got the 'Edict of Nantes' a toleration bill for how citizen are to be treated fairly and equally by kings. The exact same struggle we are now facing across the realm.

It’s a Mandela effect

I don’t think I had ever realized that one time you could climb up into the arm of the Statue of Liberty. Great story thanks for sharing.

It's said that to get to the crown you had to climb a narrow winding staircase and many wrongly believed they were at the torch instead so she was probably just mistaken

@@nickhall5959 I can assure you, she was not mistaken. When the Statue of Liberty was on TV she would point to the torch and say that's where she went. Quite a thill for a girl in the 1930's. When I went there in the 1970's (pre-remodel) they would only allow us up to the crown and things were very rusty.

AP problems of Democracy Advanced Placement? Thank God we don't live in a Democracy!

You indicate there were 4 reported deaths, I've seen conflicting reports that state as many as 22 have died. Any way to get the names of those who died?

The "history" taught in most schools these days is all about how racist, sexist, and homophobic America is.

Same here....

A day without learning is a day wasted

Check out the Boston molasses flood. Bizarre

Cuz it's fake

Concorde4711 Oh yea. As an American, I was amazed a few years ago reading about the disaster. That is history that should NOT be forgotten.

There was also one in Texas in 1947 that was considered to be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.

We still rule, when it comes to screw-ups. Oh Canada....

One of the biggest non-nuclear blast of all time. Texas City, Halifax, (picric acid), rate about as big. The biggest non-nuclear was the single-shot demolition of the submarine pens on the Baltic (or thereabouts) after the Nazis fell. A test shot done by the U.S. during the race for a nuclear bomb consisted of the acclumulation of (I think) 10, 000 tons in one big stack and set off to try to get an idea of the force in the kiloton range. Since this was probably stacked or arranged in a very efficient manner to achieve total detonation, it might be the biggest in yield. Accidental detonations are usually very inefficient. Munitions often are as much scattered as detonated. Even deliberate blasts by amateur bombers result in a wide dispersal of most of the explosive material. At Oklahoma City, well over half of the ANFO was non-detonated, due to a lack of good workable knowledge of how to prime and tamp a large amount of material. By series-jumping all those barrels with det cord, once the first one went off, barrels further down the det-line were blown apart and scattered. A mis-guided attempt to erect a "shaped-charge" configuration with the barrels had a lot to do with the loss of so much efficiency once it went off. No attempt to tamp the array to gain those micro-seconds necessary to get more of it to go off was done, and probably not well understood by Tim McVeigh. In the detonation of "gadget" at Algomordo it was of supreme importance that every separate shaped block of high-and-"lower" speed explosive went off at a ridiculously simultaneous moment in order to cause a precisely focused inbound blast front on its way into compressing the core. Anything else would tear the bomb apart and result in a very inefficient detonation or even a "dud" that scattered Plutonium all over the desert! This was done with the help of dozens of capacitors charged and released to set off the primer caps. The wires were all EXACTLY the same length, and of course set off in parallel. Other considerations helped the end result work well! The entire success was based on the mechanics of achieving uniform compression. There were months of tests trying to figure out how to achieve that. That was the real science behind a successful device!

I was going to say exactly this.

maxsmodels that was an interesting story. However, due to the popularity of “shark week” there is plenty on YT about the events, and I didn’t think I had anything to add.

Bull sharks are also suspect in those attacks due to their ability to live in both fresh and salt water, it's doubtful that either will be definitely proven

A man was killed by a great white shark on Cape Cod earlier this year.

It would be highly unusual for a juvenile that size to attack a grown man; the man that tried to save the boy would have been almost the same size as the shark! It would’ve had to have been a ten-footer at least- seems I remember something about a fisherman catching a ten footer and finding an arm when they cut open the stomach...

maxsmodels When I was in 4th grade I attended Broad St. School in Matawan, NJ. Site of the last attack. One of the boys who were swimming in the creek that day worked in the school. Remember the librarian telling us. The boy & the man who tried to save him are buried in Rose 🌹 Hill cemetery in Matawan with views of the Raritan Bay. Said to be quite haunted.

His 'pitch' is equal to the best of British documentaries. Not overstated, not over-dramatised; he reminds me of Stephen Ambrose, who besides Shelby Foote was surely the greatest ever American historian, because he stated facts, not 'hype'.

Andrew Emery I LOVE Shelby Foote! Ken Burns Civil War!

I loved listening to Shelby Foote during Ken Burns "Civil War".

Yes, and well-researched... and I especially like that he delivers so much information with no fluff or filler.

I concur!👏👏👏👏

I believe this event never happened, and someone's trying to fabricate the historical record.

Its cuz you are from a different parallel earth just like half of us here. In your time line there was no attack by the germans in the eastern coast, no attack by Japanese 9000 balloons in the western coast except the Pearl Harbor attack, and Ben Franklin discovered electricity....not some cat from the 1600's. Plus there was only 1 manned moon landing not freaking 6. We jumped somehow, now millions of us are freaking out...except me of course cuz my timeline sucked.

⁠@@luscent3737Thank you for shedding light on this. I’ve never heard of 6 manned moon landings either, just as many of the changes going on. Of course the balloons and this black tom explosion should have been common knowledge if everyone present in the same timeline. I’m not sure about any of it but I know there’s too many people who remember the exact same alternate version of things that apparently weren’t so, and who don’t remember any key events like black tom. I’m starting to really believe in the merging timeline theory.

The introduction has spurred quite a lot of discussion.

I usually skip the intro by double tapping.... mr history guy you’re welcome to bringing it back I won’t mind .... but I’ll still skip the intro :)

I liked the intro as well. I wasn't aware there had been discussion of it previously.

not a fan of the jingle. please leave as is.

Zagnorch that is an interesting battle, and I will likely do an episode in the future.

Those poor dachshunds flying through the air!

You gotta keep a close eye on those meat missles! They'll attack anything!

J Lynn ☆ Gotta Keep those little things SOMEWHERE!

Dachshund storage is pretty much a German thing....

His vowels definitely need softening

Yeah interesting story

Wow that is insane to think it actually had the power of a small nuclear device.But like you said it does add up to that

watchthe1369: "a small nuclear device"? If, and only if, all of the explosive shells, bombs, etc were to explode together. My understanding is that in these cases, many of the explosive devices get "thrown" from site without exploding - like those held by the woman in the newspaper. A nuclear device does it's exploding in microseconds - unlikely that chemical explosives, fairly widely separated on barges, rail cars, dock, ships could could all explode together this quickly. This was a HUGE explosion, but.... And the photos of the damage showed no crater that one would associate with a nuclear level explosion. Terrible destruction, but unlikely nuclear level. As a retired engineer, I understand the math you mentioned, but there is more to consider than just adding up the numbers.........

DD_Ranch Texas I like engineers. What railroad did you drive a train for?🚂

@@dd_ranchtexas4501 Well yeah, and accidental explosion in a chemical normally expected to be compressed in a bore hole.... It obviously did not have the velocity of propagation for a nucler device, and there was a crater. The whole area beside the grain elevator was dru land, now it is part of the harbor....give or take a few truckload.... It was at least a kiloton order blast. Looka the the damage to the bridge and the way the water goe right beside the grain elevators, thatland did not "hook" before the blast. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7apZtvgBHx8.html

I found this channel about a month ago. Since then I have watched about one or two videos every day. Always informative and leads me to further investigation.

no one heard of this before. this is a mandela effect

I do plan to in the future yes.

Yes, I think that is likely.

@@TheHistoryGuyChannel would really enjoy such a video!

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered The history of the line should include the funding source. I believe it’s from the Comstock Load of silver from Virginia City Nevada.

Truly good suggestion!

Or maybe a story about the NY bridge builders that got caissons disease (the bends) when coming up from the bottom of the Hudson River?

Were you a good student who voluntarily showed up to class and paid attention? Because that is what you are doing when you click this video. You are volunteering your time and attention to watch a video. Teachers don't get to choose their students, and have to teach lots of bratty students lessons students don't want to learn. In short, teachers are fine, you were a typical shitty kid like the rest of us.

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@Reagan Kulenkamp - wow, talk about a lucky person!

@@shawngilliland243 Talk about people talking shit

Bob Bastion that would probably be NWS Earle, the Black Tom Island area was completely filled in and closed by the 80’s.

The long and short of Halifax is that one boat, the SS Clara, was on the wrong side of the channel, another, the SS Imo, had to avoid them while going above the set speed of I believe.. 5 nautical miles?, and in so doing went into the wrong side (having been on the right side, but moving to the wrong one to avoid collision). The reason the SS Imo was going over the the speed limit was to make up for lost time after a day's delay in harbor. After that, another boat, the SS Mont Blonc, loaded with munitions bound from (or to?) france ended up crashing into the affore-mentioned boat as a result of both of them refusing to get out of each other's way until it was too late. This led to the Mont Blonc crashing into the shore, and the explosives on board cooking off and subsequently exploding. If you want to know more, here's a link to "Plainly Difficult's" video on the explosion. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bHZZVUv4Sis.html

It occurred to me while watching this video that the reason The Black Tom explosion isn't well remembered is because the Halifax Explosion eclipsed it...and, like you, I'd love to see the History Guy do an episode on this.

J Cut I am from Halifax, never heard of Black Tom explosion either. Four people died in Black Tom, over two thousand in Halifax.

Rob Meekel I think that a large reason most people know about the Halifax explosion is from the Heritage minutes commercial. It's right up there with the house hippo and smelling burnt toast 🙂

@@billbill8852 LOL ....oh yes! Don't forget the Log Driver's Waltz. What was the name of the train dispatcher who stopped the in-bound train? :)