On this day - 11 September
Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.
9/11 attacks
The deadliest terrorist attack in history took place on September 11th 2001. Al-Qaeda coordinated four attacks against the USA to occur simultaneously. Four commerical airline flights were highjacked by suicide attackers. The first two flights were crashed into the Twin Towers in New York. The third flight was crashed into the Pentagon in Virginia and the fourth flight crashed during a passenger revolt in Pennsylvania. Almost 3000 individuals died and many thousands more were injured.
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