World Trade Center and Pentagon attacked by terrorists
On this day in 2001, 19 militants associated with the terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four planes in the United States, crashing three into buildings (the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania) and killing some 3,000 people. 2001.
A major fire erupted in the Channel Tunnel, which runs under the English Channel and connects England with France, and the Chunnel (as it was sometimes called) did not resume full service until early the following year. 2008.
General Augusto Pinochet led a coup d’état, overthrowing the government of President Salvador Allende of Chile. 1973.
Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Canada at the second Quebec Conference. 1944.
