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Aug 24, 2021 · Eighteen minutes after noon on February 26, 1993, a bomb exploded in the basement parking garage below the north tower of the World Trade Center. The massive explosion killed six people and...
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Article History. Quick Facts. In full: Mary Margaret Truman Daniel. Born: February 17, 1924, Independence, Missouri, U.S. Died: January 29, 2008, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. (aged 83) Notable Works: “Murder in the White House”
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Mary Margaret Truman Daniel (February 17, 1924 – January 29, 2008) was an American classical soprano, actress, journalist, radio and television personality, writer, and New York socialite. She was the only child of President Harry S. Truman and First Lady Bess Truman .
1993 WTC Bombing Timeline. Friday marks the 23rd anniversary of the first attack on the World Trade Center that killed six people. An interactive web timeline features artifacts, oral histories, and archival media of the Feb. 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
Feb 26, 1993 · The 1993 World Trade Center bombing killed six people and injured more than one thousand people. This interactive timeline tells the story of the bombing plot, its effects on the World Trade Center, and the campaign to bring the perpetrators to justice.
A bomb exploded in a rented moving truck that was parked in the garage beneath the World Trade Center that resulted in a 100-foot crater that was several stories deep and several stories higher. Six Islamic Fundamentalists were later arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life for the attack, with a seventh plotter at large.
When construction on the World Trade Center began in 1966, it was one of the most ambitious projects in size and scale ever conceived. Learn more about the complexity of the World Trade Center’s construction, operations, and management through these facts and figures.
