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2001 anthrax attacks: A number of letters containing high-grade Anthrax are sent to U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle and a number of news organizations across the U.S. in September and October 2001, killing five people and infecting seventeen others.
On September 13, 2001, Zdeněk P. Bažant, professor of civil engineering and materials science at Northwestern University, circulated a draft paper with results of a simple analysis of the World Trade Center collapse. Bažant suggested that heat from the fires was a key factor, causing steel columns in both the core and the perimeter to weaken ...
Beginning a week after the September 11 attacks, letters containing poisonous anthrax spores were mailed, initially to five media organizations. The attacks were first detected at the headquarters of American Media in Boca Raton, Florida which at that time owned the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid.
Editor’s Note: A new episode of the CNN Original Series “How It Really Happened” spotlights the terrifying anthrax attacks that followed Sept. 11, 2001, taking viewers inside one of the ...
A Japanese woman offers a prayer for victims of terrorist attacks on New York and Washington after laying flowers at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo September 12, 2001.
A detailed look at what happened on one of the most traumatic days in history
October 29, 1994 – Francisco Martin Duran, took a semi-automatic rifle and fired 29 rounds at the White House before being tackled to the ground and arrested. [ 67 ] February 8, 2001 – Robert W. Pickett, of Evansville , Indiana , an accountant who had been fired from the IRS thirteen years earlier (in 1988), fired shots outside the White ...
On September 11th in 2001, a series of terrorist attacks shocked America and the rest of the world. Two airliners bound for California were hijacked by terrorists and eventually crashed into the ...