Timeline beyond October following the September 11 attacks

The following list contains dates beyond October 2001 involving the September 11 attacks.

2001

Thursday, November 1, 2001

Friday, November 2, 2001

  • Approximately 10:30 a.m. EST Emotions spill over into violence at a two-hour protest by several hundred to a thousand firefighters near City Hall, beginning at West and Chambers Streets, to protest Giuliani's October 31st ruling to reduce the number of firefighters permitted at the World Trade Center site from 64 to 25. After firefighter Mike Heffernan, brother of John Heffernan, retired fire captain Bill Butler, father of Tommy Butler, and Kevin E. Gallagher, the president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, speak, the assembled protesters push aside a barricade and begin walking south down West Street. At the next barricade the police move in, punches are thrown, and firefighters handcuffed. Both sides shout for understanding, and the conflict quickly subsides. The firefighters then march out to the applause of construction workers, the protest breaking up around 12:30 p.m.
  • 12 firefighters (including four ranking fire officers and one fire marshal) are arrested and taken to the 28th Precinct station house in central Harlem. 5 police officers are injured, two with black eyes and facial trauma, three with neck, shoulder and back injuries.

Monday, November 12, 2001

Monday, November 19, 2001

December

Morning and television sitcoms broadcast dedications.

Sunday, December 16, 2001

  • The last remnants of the North Tower's facade are cut down.

2002

February

  • The fires of the destroyed World Trade Center are finally put out after burning for five months.

Sunday, February 3, 2002

Friday, February 8, 2002

  • At the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, a tattered American flag recovered from the World Trade Center site is carried into the stadium by American athletes, members of the Port Authority police, and members of the New York City police and fire departments.[2]

Monday, March 11, 2002

  • Six months after the attack, numerous ceremonies of remembrance take place.
  • Huffman Aviation receives a letter from the Immigration and Naturalization Service saying that Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi had been approved for student visas to study there.
  • The Tribute in Light project begins. The project goes for a month and is re-launched on September 11, 2003, to mark the second anniversary of the attack. The Tribute in Light is now done every year on September 11.

Tuesday, March 12, 2002

  • The remains of at least 11 firefighters and several civilians are found when recovery workers reach the site of what had been the south tower lobby.

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Tuesday, June 4, 2002

Monday, August 19, 2002

  • The New York City Medical Examiner releases an updated list of World Trade Center casualties. There were 2,819 killed or missing, 4 less than the Police Department list which had been the best official tally publicly released. One name removed was that of a woman who had been listed under both her maiden and married names. The other three were of people reported missing once by people who had since not been in contact with New York City officials.

Tuesday, August 20, 2002

Tuesday, August 27, 2002

  • The Newark Star-Ledger reports that George V. Sims is alive.[5] By this point at least 7 people on the August 19 list have been found; there are now 2,812 killed or presumed dead.

Saturday, September 7, 2002

  • The New York City Medical Examiner releases a new list of World Trade Center deaths. The new list has 22 fewer names than the previous one. The death toll now stands at 2801, including the dead on the airplanes but not the 10 hijackers.

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

  • Remembrance services are held throughout the USA.
  • The ceremony at New York City, broadcast throughout the world, falls an hour behind schedule, but is well attended. The ceremony included the reading out of the names of all the persons who died there (on both the planes and the World Trade Center) and the recitals of American historical speeches such as the Gettysburg Address. Moments of silence are observed at 8:46 a.m. and 9:03 a.m., the moments when the two planes struck the two towers, and church bells ring at 9:59 a.m. and 10:29 a.m., the moment at which the South and North towers respectively collapsed. Foreign dignitaries gather in Battery Park for the lighting of the eternal flame at sunset. President George W. Bush addresses the nation from Ellis Island an hour and a half after the lighting of the eternal flame.
  • The private ceremony at The Pentagon is also well-attended, and included the President amongst its participants. A prayer is said at the end that referred to Todd Beamer's "Let's roll" remark.
  • The public ceremony at Shanksville also had a large turnout. It included two flybys and a release of doves. President George W. Bush attends a private follow up service for the families of Flight 93's victims in the afternoon.
  • In Karachi, wanted terrorist Ramzi bin al-Shibh (also known as Ramzi Omar) is among five alleged terrorists captured by Pakistani authorities at a Defence Housing Authority estate. Bin al-Shibh is wanted by US authorities in relation to the September 11 attacks. His capture does not become public knowledge for two days, but photographs featuring him being led away blindfolded are published on the day.

Thursday, September 26, 2002

Friday, September 27, 2002

2003

Wednesday, February 26, 2003

  • Daniel Libeskind's design is announced as the winner and future occupant of the former World Trade Center site.[6] The design includes an office building and a Wedge of Light which will honor the victims of the terrorist attacks by shutting down its lights between 8:46AM and 10:28AM EST every September 11. It will also use the WTC's foundations.[6]

2004

Thursday, July 22, 2004

Two beams of light represent the former Twin Towers of the World Trade Center during the 2004 memorial of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

2006

Monday, September 11, 2006

Between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and midnight on September 11, 2006, on CNN, viewers could watch CNN footage of the attacks, as it happened as it was broadcast on that day. At 8:49 a.m. ET, during American Morning, CNN rebroadcast the first minute of its coverage, as it was the moment it broke the news.[8]

MSNBC broadcasts national NBC News coverage from 8:52 to 12:00 ET, branding it as a "Living History Event". They would do it again annually since then.

2008

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Pope Benedict XVI made a visit to the World Trade Center Site during his visit to the United States. He is the first pope to visit the site since the attacks.[9][10]

Thursday, September 11, 2008

George W. Bush dedicates the Pentagon Memorial to the public on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks.[11]

2011

Monday, May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden, the founder of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda who was responsible for the September 11 attacks, was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The death of bin Laden was announced by the President of the United States Barack Obama in a nationwide address.[12][13]

Sunday, September 11, 2011

The tenth anniversary of the attacks was the anticipated final display of the Tribute in Light, though it continued past this date. Dedication of the World Trade Center Memorial (the new One World Trade Center building at the World Trade Center site in New York City was originally supposed to be dedicated and opened at this time, but this did not occur until 2014). The dedication of the permanent Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania took place on September 10, 2011.[14]

References

  1. "Planned Special Events: Cost Management and Cost Recovery Primer". Federal Highway Administration. October 2010. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  2. Roberts, Selena (February 9, 2002). "OLYMPICS: OPENING CEREMONY; Pomp and Patriotism as Games Begin". The New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  3. Stanley, Jane (5 June 2002). "Empire State dons Jubilee colours". BBC. Archived from the original on 2008-02-27. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
  4. Lezin Jones, Richard (August 28, 2002). "Long After 9/11, a Missing Man Turns Up in a Manhattan Hospital". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 1, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  5. "Two Men Missing Since 9/11 Found Alive". ABC News. January 7, 2006. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  6. Kugler, Sara (February 27, 2003). "Complex of Angular Buildings with Spire Chosen to Replace World Trade Center". Associated Press.
  7. McNamara, Melissa (September 11, 2006). "A Look Back At The 9/11 Commission". CBS News. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  8. "CNN.com - Transcripts". cnn.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-11. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
  9. Watkins, Bevin (September 11, 2018). "Remembering 9/11 with the Popes". Vatican News. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  10. "Pope Benedict to visit Ground Zero". France24. April 20, 2008. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  11. Gray, Andrew; Spetalnick, Matt (September 11, 2008). "Pentagon memorial unveiled as Sept 11 recalled". Reuters. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  12. "Osama bin Laden dead: more than 56 million Americans watch Barack Obama address". The Daily Telegraph. May 4, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  13. Walsh, Declan; Adams, Richard; MacAskill, Ewen (May 2, 2011). "Osama bin Laden is dead, Obama announces". The Guardian. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
  14. Q. Seelye, Katherine (September 10, 2011). "In Shanksville, Thousands Gather to Honor Flight 93 Victims". The New York Times. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
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