Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, there has been an ongoing controversial debate as to whether November 9 should be declared a German national holiday. Although the date celebrates the declaration of the first German republic, it also is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, a heinous pogrom carried out against Jews throughout Nazi Germany.
9/11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
On September 11, 2001, four passenger airliners were hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists. Two crashed into the North and South towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. In less than two hours, both 110-story buildings collapsed, killing nearly 3,000 people.
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