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Betty Ong, American flight attendant, American Airlines Flight 11 (b. 1956) Orio Palmer, American firefighter (b. 1956) Dominick Pezzulo, American police officer (b. 1965) Sneha Anne Philip, American physician, presumed to have been a victim of the attacks (b. 1970) Rick Rescorla, World Trade Center security chief for Morgan Stanley and Dean ...
2001 — Anthrax attacks kill 5 and infect a further 17 through the U.S. Mail system. 2001 — The United States launches the invasion of Afghanistan marking the start of Operation Enduring Freedom. 2001 — Patriot Act, increasing law enforcement agencies' ability to conduct searches in cases of suspected terrorism. Agencies were enforced.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 January 2025. 2001 January February March April May June July August September October November December This article is about the year 2001. For other uses, see 2001 (disambiguation). Calendar year Millennium: 3rd millennium Centuries: 20th century 21st century 22nd century Decades: 1980s 1990s 2000s ...
Some American stock exchanges stayed closed for the rest of the week following the attack and posted enormous losses on reopening, especially in the airline and insurance industries. The destruction of billions of dollars' worth of office space caused serious damage to the economy of Lower Manhattan. Economic effects of the September 11 attacks
The history of the United States from 1991 to 2008 began following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The dissolution signaled the end of the Cold War and left the U.S. unchallenged as the world's sole superpower. The U.S. took a leading role in military involvement in the Middle East.
US-allied victory - The American Revolution started as a civil war within the British Empire. [nb 1] It became a larger international war in 1778 once France joined. [nb 2] Treaty of Paris (1783) Britain recognizes the independence of the United States of America and the Thirteen Colonies. President of the Continental Congress in American ...
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), [1] occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 terrorist attacks.