September 11th facts
While investigating facts about September 11th, I found out little known, but curios details like:
On September 11th, 2001, Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file retirement paperwork. When he heard the explosion at the world trade center he immediately responded and was later killed when one of the towers collapsed. He was the only off-duty officer killed on 9/11.
About Roselle, a seeing-eye dog that led her blind owner, Michael Hingson, down 1,463 steps from the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Dog and owner exited just before the South Tower collapsed, and both survived.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about September 11th I managed to collect.
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On September 11th, 2001 when the US Airspace was shutdown following the attacks, Canada took in 255 flights bound for the USA making this known as Operation Yellow Ribbon. There were over 30,000 people on all 200 flights. Many Canadians hosted the passengers at home for several days.
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The Queen of England has only ever broken protocol for The Changing Of The Guard once. On 9/12/2001, the day after The September 11th attacks on The World Trade Center in The United States. Instead of The English National Anthem being played during the change, it was the US National Anthem.
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Many PBS stations across the US switched to all children's programming after the September 11th attacks in order to "provide children a safe harbor from continuous news coverage of the attacks."
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During the search and rescue operations for the September 11th attacks, it was becoming rarer and rarer for rescue dogs to find anyone, leading them to feel failed, so firefighters hid in the rubble for the dogs to find them.
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On September 11th, 1973, Salvador Allende, the first Marxist to be democratically elected to President of Chile, was overthown in a CIA-backed military coup; a 17 year-long US-backed military junta led by Augusto Pinochet followed, in which thousands of dissidents were persecuted.
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In a legal battle after the September 11th attacks, the leaseholder of the WTC claimed that he was owed double insurance payments, as each attack was a separate event, but lost in court, in which the jury decided it was actually one attack
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The New York Times wrote an article about every single September the 11th Victim
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A "September 11th Security Fee" is applied every time you book a flight. The amount collected has risen from ~$1 billion in 2002 to ~$3.5 billion in 2015, and jumped $1.5 billion from 2014 to 2015. Currently, the fee is $11.20 per round-trip.
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On September 11th, 1857 120 settlers were slaughtered by a Mormon militia in southern Utah
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Out of the 50,000 workers that could have been in the world trade centre on September 11th 2001, only around 19,000 were there that day for two main reasons; because people were late taking their kids to the first day of school and voting at local polling station for the mayoral election
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On September 11th, 2001 when the US Airspace was shutdown following the attacks, Canada took in 255 flights bound for the USA making this known as Operation Yellow Ribbon. There were over 30,000 people on all 200 flights. Many Canadians hosted the passengers at home for several days.
Following the September 11th attacks, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) made a list of songs that weren’t allowed to be played on the stations they owned. This list includes every song made by Rage Against the Machine. - source
On September 11th 2001, after both towers fell, the cricket like chirping heard around ground zero each represented the PASS device of a fallen firefighter. - source
The murder of Henryk Siwiak. It's the only recorded homicide in New York on September the 11th, 2001, as the city does not include the deaths from the attacks in the official crime statistics; the murder remains unsolved.
The September 11th massacre of 9 AD in the Teutoburg Forest was literally an inside job. The Romans lost over 10,000 to an insider who betrayed them. - source
On September 11th, 1973, the CIA backed a military coup to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chile and install a military junta
On September 11th, Flight 93 was delayed by 42 Minutes. The hijacked planes were supposed to take off within 15 minutes of each other. That gave warning to the cockpit, and could have been the reason United 93 never hit their intended target.
The United States has officially been in a continuous state of emergency since the September 11th Attacks.
A 1997 episode of Frasier exclaimed that September 11th was ‘Frasier Crane Day’. Four years later, the show’s creator David Angell would go on to be one of the casualties of 9/11
The synthpop band "I Am the World Trade Center" released their debut album "Out of the Loop" in July 2001 with the 11th track of the album being "September".
Roger Hargreaves died suddenly from a stroke on September 11th, 1988 at the young age of 53. At the time of his death he had been living in Sussex in Kent with his wife and children.
