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unusual facts about September 11, 2001, attacks



A Season with Verona

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on the pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power).

Aden Emergency

British forces had opened fire 40 times, and during that period there were 60 grenade and shooting attacks against British forces, including the bombing of an Aden Airways Douglas DC-3, which was bombed in mid-air, killing all people on board.

Alicia Leigh Willis

From December 2001 to February 2006, Willis played Courtney Matthews on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital.

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

The book is about the October 1, 1910 bombing of The Los Angeles Times building by union members that caused later attacks, but the later ones failed.

Anand Rajaram

He has done theatre work with CanStage, Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, Odyssey Theatre and others, as well as producing and presenting his own works, Hys Unauthoryzed Lyfe and Tymes (2001), and Cowboys & Indians (2005), both at the Summerworks Theatre Festival with Bob Wiseman in Toronto.

Battle of Zinjibar

Later during the day, militants attacked a stadium near Zinjibar, from where the military was conducting attacks against militant positions.

Berlaymont building

The building briefly appeared in the 2006 film, "Children of Men", shown along with buildings in other cities that had been subject to attacks.

Bülent Akinci

After shooting some short films, he finally won the F. W. Murnau prize in 2002 for his short film A short story (2001), starring actress Gudrun Landgrebe.

Cagiallo

In 2001 the municipality was merged with the other, neighboring municipalities Lopagno, Roveredo, Sala Capriasca, Tesserete and Vaglio to form a new and larger municipality Capriasca.

CAP Scientific

CAP (Computer Analysts and Programmers) merged with the French firm Sema-Metra SA in 1988 as Sema Group plc which was acquired by Schlumberger in 2001 to become SchlumbergerSema, itself acquired by Atos Origin in 2004.

Carolyn Dennis

Their marriage and parenthood was completely unknown to both Dylan's fans and the media until the 2001 publication of Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes.

Daniel Chandler

Daniel Chandler (born 1952) is a British visual semiotician based (since 2001) at the department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University (where he has taught since 1989).

David Francey

His 2004 album, The Waking Hour, is a collaboration with traditional country artists Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin, and includes some of his darker material, including "Wishing Well" about the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and "Fourth of July", a political commentary on the post-September 11 United States.

David Twohill

Twohill, with his wife Sue, was in the national news on Christmas Day 2001 when their house was lost in bushfires—a benefit gig, Bird's Big Burnout, occurred at Revesby in early 2002 and a four piece Midnight Oil minus Peter Garrett performed.

Domenico Lombardi

Dr. Lombardi is a former executive board member of the World Bank Group (2005–2007) and of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2001–2005).

Eberhard Burger

He is particularly active in Dresden, overseeing construction of the new Zionskirche and serving as Director of Construction for the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche from 1996 to 2005 and from 2001 to present as chairman of the Dresden Frauenkirche Foundation (Stiftung Frauenkirche Dresden).

Engineering and Public Policy

EPP professor David Farber also served as FCC Chief Technologist from January 2000 to June 2001.

Fantasy Productions

In 2001, when FASA closed, FanPro founded a sister company based in Chicago, although most of its employees worked remotely.

Floresville, Texas

Floresville was the birthplace of former Texas Governor, United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Republican presidential contender John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1917–1993), and his seven siblings, including actor Merrill Connally (1921–2001) and Wayne Connally (1923–2000), a former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature.

Greenslade

Drummer John Trotter joined in time for a subsequent tour, during which the live album Greenslade 2001 - Live: The Full Edition was recorded.

Invasive species of Australian origin

The Australian magpie was introduced into New Zealand and are considered to be a pest because of attacks on humans and a possible effect on the native bird population.

John Scott, Jr.

Scott entered the coaching ranks in 2001 as a defensive line coach at West Davidson High School in Tyro, North Carolina.

Kellyn Tate

She later played professional softball for the Orlando Wahoos (1998), Akron Racers (1999-2000), WPSL All-Stars (2001), and California Sunbirds (2004).

Leo Scullion

His first senior match was in the 1999 Challenge Tour, and officiated his first televised match in the 2001 Regal Scottish Masters, a tie between Stephen Lee and Patrick Wallace.

Meni Levi

Levi scored his first goal in the Israeli Premier League on October 12, 2001; in the 90th minute of a match against Hapoel Petach Tikva in Bloomfield Stadium.

Michael Swart

Born in Perth, Swart was a member of the state under-19 teams in 2000 and 2001 that were captained by Brett Jones and Shaun Marsh, respectively.

Michiel van Bokhorst

In late 2001 Van Bokhorst met Philip Oakey at a party in Amsterdam for "OOR magazine" and discussed working on remixing some of the tracks on The Human League album Secrets.

Michigan State University School of Hospitality Business

The School’s faculty was ranked number one by the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research in “mean productivity” from 1992–2001, and in having "the most intensely" contributing authors amongst the Top 20 universities.

Mimi Lamote

From 2001 until 2004, she was a member of the board of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises (VBO) and a member of the board of Fedis.

Mohawk Valley Prowlers

The Mohawk Valley Prowlers were a United Hockey League team which played from 1998 until January 2001 in Utica, New York.

Mostar derby

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National Indoor Football League

The league started operations in 2001, with many teams coming from Indoor Football League being bought the previous year and folding operations.

No Sleep till Brooklyn

Comedian Christopher Titus sarcastically referenced the song in his 2001 comedy special Norman Rockwell is Bleeding when describing an event from his youth in which he was on drugs and Licensed to Ill was playing "at a soothing billion-and-five decibels".

Nosratollah Noohian

His literary compilations include "Biographies of Poets of Semnan" (1958), which was republished in the US in 2001, "Shining Stars" (1959) a collection of published articles relating to Persian poetry, and "Works of Raf'at Semnani" (1960) (رفعت سمنانی) with an introduction by Zabihollah Safa.

Notes from My Travels

Notes from My Travels is a collection of journal excerpts kept by actress Angelina Jolie in 2001-2002 detailing her experiences travelling to troubled Third World regions in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Oskar Freysinger

From 1997 and 2001, he was a communal counselor at Savièse for the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland.

Pertra

It is based in Trondheim and was created when the oil exporation and production division of Petroleum Geo-Services was demerged in 2001.

Princess Shruti of Nepal

Princess Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah (15 October 1976 – 1 June 2001) was the daughter of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, and sister of King Dipendra and Prince Nirajan.

Ramón Menéndez

His only film as a screenwriter and not as a director was the 2001 film Tortilla Soup.

Richard Wetz

: (Recording: Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic and State Youth Choir, Werner Andreas Albert, 2001)

Scream Team

Scream Team was a 2001 Living TV Paranormal television series, as well as the name of an unrelated 2002 film.

Silent speech interface

The decoding of silent speech using a computer played an important role in Arthur C. Clarke's story and Stanley Kubrick's associated film 2001: A Space Odyssey (film).

Stanley Walker

Stanley C. Walker (1923–2001), Democratic member of the Virginia Senate

Stephen Revere

Revere has appeared on a number of Korean TV shows, including English Conversation (EBS, 2001–2003) and The World Is Wide (세상은 넓다, KBS1 2006-2007).

Thomas Henty

In an archive interview with the television personality Frank Bough included in the 2001 ITV documentary The Unforgettable Tommy Cooper, Henty explained that he did not want people in the acting profession to know that he was Cooper's son, presumably because he was fearful of claims of nepotism.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon 2

Determined to fight the West and quash dissent among the North Korean populace, Jung attacks some of North Korea's largest cities, such as Sinpo and Hyesan.

TV2Me

TV2Me was invented by Ken Schaffer, who began working on it in 2001, when he was working overseas.

Uncle Stonehill's Hat

Uncle Stonehill's Hat is a children's album by Randy Stonehill recorded in 2001 and produced by Terry Scott Taylor.

Wilfrid Emmett Doyle

Doyle then did work in the Diocese of Kamloops before moving in 2001 to St. Elizabeth Seton House of Prayer in Kelowna, which he had established during his tenure as Bishop and where he and others were later forced to evacuate when forest fires threatened to consume the residence.

Yiddish Book Center

In 2001 Ruthe B. Cowl (1912–2008) of Laredo, Texas, donated $1 million to create the Jack and Ruthe B. Cowl Center, which promotes "Yiddish literary, artistic, musical, and historical knowledge and accomplishment" at the Amherst headquarters.


see also

Gaiji Keisatsu

After the September 11, 2001 attacks on American soil, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department creates a secret anti-terrorist division within the Public Security Bureau in order to tackles crime, espionage and terrorism cases to preserve Japan's national security by doing black ops work to locate and apprehend spies and terrorist suspects.

Imad al-Din

Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, also known as Abu Dahdah, Syrian-born Spaniard sentenced to prison in Spain for his part in the September 11, 2001 attacks

Infinite justice

Operation Enduring Freedom, the "military response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States", initially planned to be named as Operation Infinite Justice

New York Steel

New York Steel was a benefit concert emceed by Eddie Trunk and Mike Piazza, featuring heavy metal musicians, that took place on November 28, 2001 at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

No Smoke Without a Fire

The song is one of the songs listed on Clear Channel's list of "songs with questionable lyrics" following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Sony Music Studios

Sony Music Studios also hosted America: A Tribute to Heroes, a live telethon held 10 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

We Are Family

We Are Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization created after the September 11, 2001 attacks