Figure 1: Reference Timeline of 9/11-Related Events

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WTC/Pentagon plane-bombings
Airports reopen
Stock markets reopen
  1                      
First hate-killing in L.A.
First peace protests
First celebrity fund-raiser
    2                    
Pakistan allies with US
First unrelated story on front page
First report of Special Forces in Afghanistan
      3                  
Anthrax in Florida
First airstrikes
Russian jet struck by missle
        4                
Anthrax in New York
First errant bomb kills non-combatants
Anthrax in DC (Daschle)
          5              
Anthrax in New Jersey
First ground force military engagement
Shift of bombing from cities to battlefields
            6            
Anthrax spreading
Air strikes and ground involvement increase
FBI warns of new threats
              7          
Bin Laden videotape
Economic downturn
FBI: warning not credible after CA gov's measures
                8        
US diplomacy on several fronts
Plane crashes in Brooklyn
Taliban defeats
                  9      
Anthrax seems to be domestic terrorism
Hostage aid workers rescued
Problems distributing aid to 9/11 victims
                  10    
Taliban collapsing
International terrorism: Madrid, Indonesia
Taliban prison revolt
                    11  
Recession deepening
First American to die in combat
American Taliban
                      12

 

Maintained by Dr. Christine M. Rodrigue
First placed on the web: 07/15/02
Last revised: 07/15/02