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The school was built in 2003 and was named after Todd Morgan Beamer, a passenger aboard United Airlines Flight 93 during the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was one of the passengers who attempted to foil the hijacking and reclaim the aircraft, which crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The school was opened in September 2003.
Aug 3, 2021 · Getty Images. By Patrick Jackson. BBC News. On Tuesday 11 September 2001 suicide attackers seized US passenger jets and crashed them into two New York skyscrapers, killing thousands of people. The ...
Sep 9, 2011 · Spencer is among more than 530 police officers who work with bomb-sniffing dogs named after police officers, firefighters and others killed when they responded to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. His ...
Aug 13, 2010 · Finally, in January 2011, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after an NYPD officer whose death has been attributed to his work at Ground Zero, was signed into law.
September 11: Terrorist attacks on America. Two planes are flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing both towers to collapse. A third plane crashes into the Pentagon, just outside Washington, DC. The fourth plane crashes in rural Pennsylvania after the crew and passengers attacked the terrorists on board ...
Sep 11, 2023 · After 9/11, millions of Muslims living in the US increasingly became targets of Islamophobic attacks, and those prejudices are “still alive and kicking” 22 years on, according to experts ...
Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) prison island in the East River in the Bronx that contains New York City's largest jail. Named after Abraham Rycken, who took possession of the island in 1664, the island was originally under 100 acres (40 ha) in size, but has since grown to more than 400 acres (160 ha).
