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Sep 5, 2023 · Nearly 3,000 people died in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and in the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania, where heroic passengers overpowered their...
Sep 6, 2019 · Drew Angerer/Getty Images. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men hijacked four U.S. commercial airplanes that had taken off with full fuel tanks for the West Coast. The hijackers...
Jun 21, 2011 · In September 2001, al-Qaida terrorists hijacked three passenger planes and carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in...
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Aug 1, 2024 · Two planes struck the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. The first hit the North Tower at 08:46 Eastern Time (12:46 GMT). The second crashed into the South Tower at 09:03. The...
Sep 10, 2021 · On September 11, 2001, 2,973 people died and thousands were injured as two hi-jacked planes flew into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
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Sep 11, 2001 · September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City remembered. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Remember New York City's World Trade Center towers and the September 11 attacks. See how European settlers in U.S. Northeast created metropolises such as Boston and New York City.
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What was the World Trade Center and why was it important? The original World Trade Center was a 16-acre complex in New York City, comprising seven buildings that housed more than 430 businesses from around the world.
