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September 11 attacks
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September 11 attacks

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The September 11 attacks, colloquially known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four airliners, then flew one into each of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York City, and another into the Pentagon,…

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Daniel Johnston
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Daniel Dale Johnston was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, an…

I Cover the Waterfront (song)
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I Cover the Waterfront (song)
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"I Cover the Waterfront" is a 1933 popular song and jazz standard composed by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman.…

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On This Day

10 events
2015
Petlawad_explosion
An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.
2008
Metrolink_(California)
A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.
2003
Typhoon_Maemi
Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
2003
Steam_(service)
The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
1995
Hurricane_Ismael
Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.
1992
Space_Shuttle_Endeavour
Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
1983
Boricua_Popular_Army
The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
1977
Apartheid
South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.
1962
We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon
In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970 (video featured).
1952
Flatwoods,_West_Virginia
Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.

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