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Interesting facts correlating to the September 11
terrorist attack on the United States
W O R L D
- On September 13, 2001 (two days after the
terrorist attack) the United States national anthem was played at
the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace in Great Britain by
order of Queen Elizabeth II. This was an unprecedented
act.
E N T E R T A I N M E N T
- Arnold Schwarzenegger?s movie ?Collateral
Damage,? scheduled to be released on October 5, was postponed
because of the attacks. In the movie, a Colombian terrorist bombs a
Los Angeles high-rise.
- Another movie, Disney's "Big Trouble"
(starring Tim Allen), scheduled to release September 21, was
postponed out of respect for the victims of the attack. The comedy
storied Miami residents averting the detonation of a nuclear bomb
on an airplane.
- Canceled—A movie about nuclear terrorists
("The Peacemaker") scheduled to be shown on ABC on the Saturday
after the attacks
- Posters from Sony Pictures' new "Spider Man"
movie were called back because they featured images of the Twin
Towers.
- Sony also decided to change the ending of its
Men in Black 2. The ending involved a struggle with aliens near the
World Trade Center.
- A Broadway musical ("Assassins") telling of
presidential violence through the years was postponed.
- The major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox)
featured four days of continuous coverage on the attacks. This was
the longest stretch of round-the-clock coverage ever.
- Microsoft's Flight Simulator was taken off the
shelves at several stores in Britain after speculation that the
terrorists could possibly have used such computer games to enhance
their flying skills. Microsoft said it would remove images of the
World Trade Center from future versions of the game.
- A new internet game ("Majestic") was
suspended. The interactive mystery game involved conspiracies and
bombings.
S P O R T S
- Major League Baseball canceled 91 games in a
six day period after the attacks. This was the most number of games
to be canceled since 1918 (when almost the entire schedule for the
final month of the season was canceled because of WWI) Games resume
the following Monday.
- NASCAR rescheduled its Winston Cup, scheduled
to run September 15, due to the events in NYC and Washington. This
was only the second time races had ever been postponed for
non-weather reasons.
- The National Football League canceled all of
its games for the weekend. This was the first time the NFL had ever
canceled games for reasons other than a strike.
- Major League Soccer canceled its final six
games of the season
- Tiger Woods withdrew from the Ryder Cup
(September 24-28) because of the attacks on the United States. The
golf tournament was later rescheduled to be played the following
year at the same location.
- All college football conferences either
canceled or postponed their weekend games.
- American flags were added to Major League
Baseball players' caps and uniforms when games resumed on Monday,
September 17.
W O R L D T R A D E C E N T E R
- CNN reported that the Pentagon had informed
the network that a flight of at least four fighter jets had been
scrambled to intercept the planes that struck the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon. The fighters arrived too late to prevent
the attacks. The report was later confirmed by New York Governor
Pataki, who stated that the fighter jets were observed over the
city moments after the second attack.
- Not just Americans were killed in the
attack—more than 80 nationalities, including Japanese, Irish,
British, Australian, New Zealander, Swiss, Indian, Mexican, and
Canadian, suffered casualities in the September 11 attack and
collapse of the Twin Towers.
- The World Trade Center was spread over 16
acres and included seven buildings, which held offices,
restaurants, a hotel, an underground shopping mall, and an outdoor
plaza.
- The 110-story Twin Towers were 1,362 feet and
1,368 feet high—100 feet taller than the Empire State
Building.
- The World Trade Center was bombed on February
26, 1993. Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured.
The blast caused more than $300 million in damage. In May 1994,
Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Ahmad Ajaj and Mahmud Abouhalima
were convicted of conspiracy, assault and explosives charges and
sentenced to prison terms of 240 years each. Two more men were
convicted for assisting in the attack—Ramzi Ahmed Yousef and Eyad
Ismoil. Both were sentenced to 240 years in prison.
N E W Y O R K
- On September 17, 2001, commuters used ferry
services between Brooklyn and Manhattan to commute to their
business affected by the World Trade Center disaster. This was the
first time ferry services had been used since 1883.
P E N T A G O N
- The groundbreaking ceremony for the Pentagon
took place on September 11, 1941— exactly 60 years before the
terrorist attack in 2001.
U S G O V E R N M E N T
- The United States Senate and House of
Representatives voted unanimously to approve a $40 billion funding
resolution for the aftermath of the attacks. The Senate again voted
unanimously to approve the use of force; while the House vote was
420-1 (the only dissenting vote was from Barbara Lee,
Democrat-CA)
O S A M A B I N L A D E N
- Osama bin Laden has operations in at least 55
countries around the world.
- One of bin Laden's lieutenants was scheduled
to be charged/sentenced in criminal court in Manhattan on September
12, 2001.
- bin Laden's network is called Al Qaeda (el
kay-duh), which means "the base." It was founded in approximately
1989.
E V E N T S I N H I S T O R Y |
S E P T E M B E R 1 1
- On September 11, 1922, a British mandate was
proclaimed in Palestine, despite Arab protests. It lasted until
1948, after the United Nations authorized a partition of the
territory and the state of Israel was established.
- One September 11, 1941, Charles A. Lindbergh
sparked charges of anti-Semitism with a speech in which he said
``the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration'' were
trying to draw the United States into World War II
- On September 11, 1972, the troubled Munich
Summer Olympics, also remembered as "the Olympics of Terror,"
ended. For 21 hours under live television cameras, hooded gunmen of
the Palestinian faction "Black September" held Israeli athletes
hostage, killing 11 of them during a botched getaway and airport
firefight with German antiterrorism squads.
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