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Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks. The hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 approaching the South Tower (left) as the North Tower (right) burns next to it. The September 11 attacks of 2001, in addition to being a unique act of terrorism, constituted a media event on a scale not seen since the advent of civilian global satellite links.
Timeline of the September 11 attacks. The following timeline is a chronological list of all the major events leading up to, during, and immediately following the September 11 attacks against the United States in 2001, through the first anniversary of the attacks in 2002.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners, intentionally crashing two into the World Trade Center in New York City. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
In total, the 11 September attacks killed 2,977 people at the time. Thousands of volunteers and rescue workers sifted through the ruins of the World Trade Center, then known as Ground Zero, to ...
Timeline for September following the September 11 attacks. This article summarizes the events in the remaining days of September 2001 following the September 11 attacks which relate to the attacks. All times, except where otherwise noted, are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), or UTC−04:00 .
New York fire department personnel examining a smashed New York City police car, during 9/11. Because of the events that took place on September 11, 2001, American society as a whole suffered dramatically. Recovery took years, and the economy declined drastically after the attacks.
The 9/11 Commission Report, prepared by the 9/11 Commission, was released on July 22, 2004. A New York City Fire Department firefighter looks up at the remains of the South Tower on September 13, 2001, two days following the attacks An illustration of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center with a vertical view of the impact locations.
Friday, October 12, 2001. 12:30 p.m. EDT Rudy Giuliani holds a press conference detailing earlier reports about a case of anthrax in New York City. A female NBC Nightly News employee is reported to have been exposed to anthrax. It is believed that she received it from a letter containing powder on September 25.