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September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining until the end of the year.The American shorthand for the date, 9/11, is the nickname given to the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Four
passenger airliners—which all departed from airports on the
U.S. East Coast bound for
California—were
hijacked by
19 al-Qaeda terrorists to be flown into buildings. Two of the planes,
American Airlines Flight 11 and
United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the
North and
South towers, respectively, of the
World Trade Center complex in
New York City. Within an hour and 42 minutes, both 110-story
towers collapsed, with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the World Trade Center complex, including the 47-story
7 World Trade Center tower, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane,
American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into
the Pentagon (the headquarters of the
United States Department of Defense) in
Arlington County,
Virginia, leading to a partial collapse in the Pentagon's western side. The fourth plane,
United Airlines Flight 93, initially was steered toward
Washington, D.C., but crashed into a field near
Shanksville,
Pennsylvania, after its passengers tried to overcome the hijackers. In total, the attacks
claimed the lives of 2,996 people (including the 19 hijackers) and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.
[2][3] It was the
deadliest incident for firefighters and
law enforcement officers[4] in the
history of the United States, with 343 and 72 killed respectively.
The destruction of the World Trade Center and nearby infrastructure caused serious damage to the economy of
Lower Manhattan and had a significant effect on global markets, closing
Wall Street until September 17 and the civilian airspace in the U.S. and Canada until September 13. Many
closings, evacuations, and cancellations followed, out of respect or fear of further attacks. Cleanup of the
World Trade Center site was completed in May 2002, and the Pentagon was repaired within a year. On November 18, 2006,
construction of
One World Trade Center began at the World Trade Center site. The building was officially opened on November 3, 2014.
[5]Numerous
memorials have been constructed, including the
National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, the
Pentagon Memorial in Arlington County, and the
Flight 93 National Memorial in a field near Shanksville.
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