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Puerto Rican nationalists fire from gallery of U. House of Representatives; 5 Congressman injured. He examines each attack to determine whether it qualifies as a 'terrorist act.
He covers the social circumstances surrounding each attack in order to describe the motivations and origins of the perpetrators. In the cases of individual actors such as Ted Kazinsky, the Unibomber, this is effective. In August , a U. On the first day of trading after the attacks, the market fell 7. The heaviest losses were in finance and air transportation, which accounted for 60 percent of lost jobs.
Thousands of first responders and people working and living in lower Manhattan near Ground Zero were exposed to toxic fumes and particles emanating from the towers as they burned and fell. The Victim Compensation Fund was set to stop accepting claims in December The first memorials to September 11 came in the immediate wake of the attacks, with candlelight vigils and flower tributes at U.
For the first anniversary of the attacks in New York City in , two bright columns of light were shot up into the sky from where the Twin Towers once stood. On clear nights, the beams are visible from over 60 miles away.
It consists of two reflecting pools with waterfalls rushing down where the Twin Towers once rose into the sky.
The names of all 2, victims are engraved on the bronze panels surrounding the pools, arranged by where individuals were on the day of the attacks, so coworkers and people on the same flight are memorialized together.
New York Magazine. September 11th Terror Attacks Fast Facts. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. On September 11, —a clear, sunny, late summer day—al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.
The September 11 attacks struck the nation on a clear, late summer morning on the East Coast. One hijacked plane crashed in a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania. On the morning of September 11, , the deadliest terrorist attack in U. On the morning of September 11, , 19 men hijacked four U. The hijackers deliberately crashed the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and onto a field outside of
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