In Memory Of This Day - Sept. 11, 2001. World Trade Center In New York.

On this day at 8:46 a.m.,19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes.

They crashed two of the planes into the Twin Towers in NYC, and flew a third into the Pentagon building in Virginia.

Passengers on the fourth flight attempted to retake control of the aircraft, but it crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

The devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11 were responsible for 2,974 confirmed casualties and an unknown number of injuries.

"Today marks the seventh anniversary of the day our world was broken," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "It lives forever in our hearts and our history, a tragedy that unites us in a common memory and a common story ... the day that began like any other and ended as none ever has."

Reference and thanks to :-

http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/september+11%2c+2001

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420821,00.html

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