September 11 Part 1

Today in History..lets recap shall we? Well these are some of the things I found interesting. The rest were crap.

17th Century:

• 1609 Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island

18th Century:

• 1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."

19th Century:

• 1853 First electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
• 1875 First newspaper cartoon strip

20th Century:

• 1914 Two Australian battalions land near Rabaul and occupy the German colony on New Britain, off north-eastern New Guinea during WWI.
• 1922 British mandate of Palestine begins
• 1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
• 1944 Holland is liberated by the Allies.
• 1946 First mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
• 1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio
• 1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
• 1951 Florence Chadwick becomes first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours,19 minutes (GIRL POWER! :D )
  
• 1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
• 1961 Bob Dylan's first NY performance
• 1962 Beatles cut "Love Me Do" and "PS I Love You"
• 1965 Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks
• 1984 Australian Royal Commission finds servicemen were deliberately exposed to radiation in British nuclear tests at Maralinga in 1956-57.
  

21st Century:

• 2000 Scientists confirm the long held suspicion: It can take just a few cigarettes to become addicted. Research shows some 12 and 13-year-olds show signs of addiction within days of their first cigarette.
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• 2001 10:05 a.m.: The south tower of the World Trade Center collapses, plummeting into the streets below. A massive cloud of dust and debris forms and slowly drifts away from the building.
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• 2001 10:10 a.m.: A portion of the Pentagon collapses.
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• 2001 10:10 a.m.: United Airlines Flight 93 crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh.
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• 2001 10:28 a.m.: The World Trade Center's north tower collapses from the top down as if it were being peeled apart, releasing a tremendous cloud of debris and smoke.
  
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• 2001 10:45 a.m.: All federal office buildings in Washington are evacuated.2001 11:18 a.m.: American Airlines reports it has lost two aircraft. American Flight 11, a Boeing 767 flying from Boston to Los Angeles, had 81 passengers and 11 crew aboard. Flight 77, a Boeing 757 en route from Washington's Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles, had 58 passengers and six crew members aboard. Flight 11 slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Flight 77 hit the Pentagon.
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• 2001 11:26 a.m.: United Airlines reports that United Flight 93, en route from Newark, New Jersey, to San Francisco, has crashed in Pennsylvania, southeast of Pittsburgh. The airline also says that it is "deeply concerned" about United Flight 175.
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• 2001 11:59 a.m.: United Airlines confirms that Flight 175, from Boston to Los Angeles, has crashed with 56 passengers and nine crew members aboard. Emergency personnel at the scene say there are no survivors.
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• 2001 1:04 p.m.: Bush, speaking from Barksdale Air Force Base, says that all appropriate security measures are being taken, including putting the U.S. military on high alert worldwide.
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• 2001 1:48 p.m.: President Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana aboard Air Force One and flies to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
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• 2001 4:30 p.m.: The president leaves Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska aboard Air Force One to return to Washington.
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• 2001 5:20 p.m.: The 47-story Building 7 of the World Trade Center complex collapses. The evacuated building is damaged when the twin towers across the street collapse earlier in the day. Other nearby buildings in the area remain ablaze.
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• 2001 6:54 p.m.: Bush arrives back at the White House and is scheduled to address the nation at 8:30 p.m.
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• 2001 8:45 a.m.: A hijacked passenger jet, American Flight 11, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, tearing a gaping hole in the building and setting it afire.
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• 2001 9:03 a.m.: A second hijacked airliner, United Flight 175, crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center and explodes. Both buildings are burning
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• .2001 9:30 a.m.: Bush, speaking in Florida, says the country has suffered an "apparent terrorist attack." ep112001 TIME-9:40 a.m.: The FAA halts all flight operations at U.S. airports, the first time in U.S. history that air traffic nationwide has been halted.
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• 2001 9:43 a.m.: A third hijacked aircraft, American Airlines Flight 77, crashes into the Pentagon, sending up a huge plume of smoke. Evacuation begins immediately.
  

2001 Attack on America

A moment of silence for those who were killed on this day. Our thoughts and prayers goes out to all of you...

Al-Fatihah.