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The Concert for New York City was a benefit concert that took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City in response to the September 11 attacks.Aside from performing for charity, the concert honored the first responders from the New York City Fire Department and New York City Police Department, their families, and those lost in the attacks and those who had worked in the ongoing rescue ...
It aired September 21, 2001, uninterrupted and commercial-free, for which it won a Peabody Award. [1] It was released on December 4, 2001, on compact disc and DVD. On a dark stage illuminated by hundreds of candles, twenty-one artists performed songs of mourning and hope, while various actors and other celebrities delivered short spoken messages.
United We Stand: What More Can I Give was a benefit concert led by American singer Michael Jackson [1] held on October 21, 2001, at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C. [2] The concert was the third major concert held in tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks. The other two were held in New York City.
On September 11, 2001, members of the Islamic terrorist group Al Qaeda hijacked and took control of the cockpits of four airliners in the United States. Two of these planes struck the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, completely destroying that complex.
"Deals with the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York" [20] Rush "Peaceable Kingdom" Vapor Trails: 2002: Sleater-Kinney "Far Away" One Beat: 2002: The song contrast's President George W. Bush's actions on September 11, when he was flown away to a secure location, with those of the emergency responders at the World Trade Center. [10] Michael W ...
Thousands died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack across New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, and still many victims remain unidentified.
2001 – January 20, Counter-Inaugural demonstrations against President George W. Bush [29] [30] [31] 2001 – September 29, Anti-Capitalist Convergence. Originally an organized protest to counter planned World Bank and IMF meetings, many protesters backed out after the World Bank and IMF canceled their meetings in the wake of the September 11 ...
Come Together: A Night for John Lennon's Words and Music is a 2001 television program tribute to John Lennon aired on both TNT and The WB.. Originally planned to celebrate Lennon's accomplishments, the concert took place on October 2, 2001, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, shortly after the September 11 attacks and exactly one week before the 61st anniversary of Lennon's birth.