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This article summarizes events which relate to the attacks in the remaining days of September 2001. News coverage was significant in the period after the attacks which meant that many of these events were reported on quickly by news agencies at the time. All times, except where otherwise noted, are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), or UTC−04:00.
All remaining New York City Subway service was suspended from 10:20 a.m. to 12:48 p.m. [2] Immediately after the attacks and more so after the collapses of the Twin Towers, many trains running in Lower Manhattan lost power and had to be evacuated through the tunnels. Some trains had power but the signals did not, requiring special operating ...
Work is started on the original World Trade Center [3] - - Egypt: Sayyid Qutb is executed in Egypt and his brother Muhammad Qutb flees to Saudi Arabia, acquiring a teaching position at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah. - - 1973 Lower Manhattan in New York City, United States: Work is completed on the original World Trade Center [3] - - 1976
Gander International Airport in Newfoundland, Canada, played host to 38 airliners, totaling 6,122 passengers and 473 crew, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon.. Operation Yellow Ribbon (French: Opération ruban jaune) was commenced by Canada to handle the diversion of civilian airline flights in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001 in the United States.
11:00: Transport Canada halts all aircraft departures until further notice, except for police, military, and humanitarian flights, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon. The operation was well underway as international flights headed for the U.S. had already started to land at Canadian airports, beginning at CFB Goose Bay.
Emergency Number Day (United States) Enkutatash falls on this day if it is not a leap year. Celebrated on the first day of Mäskäräm. (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rastafari) National Day ; Nayrouz (Coptic Orthodox Church), September 12 on leap years. September 11 attacks-related observances (United States): National Day of Service and Remembrance
The Arab and Iranian Reaction to 911 "Complete 911 Timeline" from Nov 2001 through present – Provided by the Center for Cooperative Research. "Environmental impact of 911 attacks" – Provided by the Center for Cooperative Research. "How 9/11 changed America: In statistics". 11 September: Five years on. BBC. 2006-09-01
The first fragments of the outer walls of the collapsed North Tower struck the ground 11 seconds after the collapse started, and parts of the South Tower after 9 seconds. The lower portions of both buildings' cores (60 stories of WTC 1 and 40 stories of WTC 2) remained standing for up to 25 seconds after the start of the initial collapse before ...