History of the United States II / Unit 17 USH2 2401 short lesson, about 20 seconds
September Eleventh
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The idea
On September eleventh, two thousand one, al-Qaeda hijackers flew two airliners into the World Trade Center's towers in New York.
In practice
Everyone aboard and two thousand six hundred six people in the buildings killed, among them three hundred forty-three firefighters and seventy-two law enforcement officers.
Where people slip
Digital History notes that more than three thousand people died in the attacks as a whole.
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