9/11 timeline: how events unfolded

This weekend marks 20 years since the deadliest terror attack in history

George W. Bush speaks to Vice President Dick Cheney on board Air Force One
(Image credit: Eric Draper/The White House/Getty Images)

The United States will fall silent today to mark 16 years since the 9/11 attacks, the deadliest terror strike in the nation’s history.

A total of 2,978 victims and 19 perpetrators died in four separate suicide attacks using hijacked planes, “hurling America into a new consciousness of the threat of global terrorism,” says ABC News.

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