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1932 – Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia during the Chaco War. [29] 1940 – Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely. [30] 1941 – During World War II, German forces, with the aid of local Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar ...
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.
President George W. Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001, at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. 9:11: The last PATH train leaves the World Trade Center. The station was vacant when the towers collapsed. 9:11: ABC News anchor Peter Jennings begins reporting on the disaster.
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.
NEW YORK — There were 13,238 babies born in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. They’re turning 20 this week. They can’t remember a time when there weren’t long lines for TSA screening at ...
29 Dec Aden, Yemen, West Africa: Al-Qaeda attacks U.S. military forces for the first time in the Yemen hotel bombings in Aden. 26 Feb 1993 World Trade Center. New York City, New York, U.S. Ramzi Yousef carries out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 3-4 Oct Mogadishu, Somalia, Horn of Africa
Newspaper covers from the days following the 9/11 attacks give a glimpse into the confusion and anger felt not just by the U.S., but also around the world.
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 ...