It happened one 11 September

1968 : A caravel crashed in the Mediterranean


On September 11, 1968, the Air France flight 1611 crashed into the Mediterranean, killing all 95 passengers and crew members. The Caravelle was a flight from Corsica to Nice. First, the survey thought that a fire had broken out on board. Some people, including the BBC Radio 4, believe that the plane received a missile of the French Army by mistake.

1973 : Coup in Chile


On 11 September 1973, a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. Allende committed suicide. Thousands of people were taken to the National Stadium where they were tortured and many of them killed . Pinochet established a dictatorship, supported by the CIA, which lasted for 17 years.

2001 : Attacks against United States


On September 11, 2001, four planes hijacked by 19 terrorists mostly from Saudi Arabia.
At 8:46, a Boeing 767 crashed into the North Tower of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, between 80th and 110th floor.
It collapsed at 10:28.
At 9:03, a second Boeing 767 crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, between 77th and 85th floor.
It collapsed at 9:59.
Buildings WTC 3 (Marriott Hotel) and WTC 7 were destroyed when the two towers collapsed. Several nearby buildings were severely damaged.
At 9:45, a Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon in Washington.
A portion of the building collapsed, but because of the unique architecture of the Pentagon, built in during the second World War to withstand strong attacks, other sections were spared.
At 10:03, a Boeing 757, hijacked to destroy an unidentified target, but that could have been the White House or the Congress, crashed in a rural area in Pennsylvania, after passengers had attacked the hijackers .
There were 2977 victims in the attacks : 2606 in the World Trade Center, 125 in the Pentagon and 246 in the hijacked planes. Among the victims of the World Trade Center, there were 343 firefighters.

Quote of the day : 11 September

Tom Burnett, passager du Vol 93
Don't worry, we're going to do something. (Talking to his wife on the phone)

Birthdays : 11 September

Pierre de Ronsard, French poet (1524)
Turenne, Marshal of France (1611)
D. H. Lawrence, English writer (1885)
Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino dictator (1917)
Rudolf Vrba, Canadian-Slovak professor, escaped from Auschwitz, co-author of the Vrba-Wetzler on the extermination camps (1924)
Earl Holliman, American actor (1928)
Gherman Titov, Russian cosmonaut (1935)
Brian De Palma, American director (1940)
Nông Đức Mạnh, Vietnamese politician (1940)
Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and director (1956)
Virginia Madsen, American actress (1961)
Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria (1965)
Moby, American musician (1965)
Harry Connick, Jr., American singer (1967)
Richard Ashcroft, English singer (1971)
Jonny Buckland, English musician (Coldplay) (1977)
Eric Abidal, French footballer (1979)
Aled de Malmanche, New Zealand All Black rugby player (1984)
Benson Stanley, New Zealand All Black rugby playerr (1984)

They left us one 11 September

Go-Mizunoo, Emperor of Japan (1680)
François Couperin, French composer (1733)
Georges Guynemer, French flying ace (1917)
Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (1939)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan (1948)
Paul Douglas, American actor (1959)
Nikita Khrouchtchev, Soviet politician (1971)
Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1973)
Jessica Tandy, American actress (1994)
David Angell, American producer (2001)
John Ritter, American actor (2003)
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