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In the early afternoon of 22 July 1916 a powerful bomb exploded among a group of onlookers who had gathered to watch a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco. Ten people were killed and many more injured by the detonation that echoed through the streets of the downtown district. The bombing was thought to be the work of unknown anarchists opposed to the nation's preparation for war in the face of an armed conflict that had engulfed the nations of Europe.
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