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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
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. Instant worldwide reaction and debate were made possible by round-the-clock television news organizations and by the internet. As a result, most of the events listed ...
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.
It is believed that more than 2,000 first responders who worked on the site have since died from cancers that may be linked with 9/11. Politically and culturally, 9/11 sent the United States into ...
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
On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists took control of four commercial aircraft and used them as suicide weapons in a series of four coordinated acts of terrorism to strike the World Trade Center in New York City, The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and an additional target in Washington, D.C.
A rose and a photograph are placed on one of the victims' names at the north reflecting pool of the National 9/11 Memorial, two days before the 19th anniversary of attacks, in the lower section of ...
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 ...