JULY 2 BOMBER

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: July 2,1915 Three sticks of dynamite — The suspect had smuggled three sticks of dynamite in a suitcase into the Capitol on July 2, 1915. Finding the Senate chamber locked,he settled on an area in the Senate's reception area. The bomb went off hours later, causing damage. Erich Muenter, a German who was a Harvard professor suspected in the poisoning death of his wife in 1906. He had fled to Mexico and returned with an alias. https://www.senate.gov/about/historic-buildings-spaces/capitol/bomb-explodes-1915.htm