ROSS SIMPSON
The last steel beam that was standing from one of the World
Trade Centre towers is driven up West Street between rows
of New York City Fire and Police Department officers.
In New York, a ceremony was held to officially mark the end
of the clean up from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks
on September 11, 2001.
MIKE GRACIA
ROSS SIMPSON
SINGER BOB DYLAN’S DEBUT ALBUM IN 1962.
Nancy Kerrigan cries in pain after the attack.
Former figure skater Nancy Kerrigan (above) was clubber on her right leg
by an assailant on this day in 1994. The attacker was hired by the ex-
husband of her rival Tonya Harding. Four men were later sentenced to
prison for the attack, including Harding’s ex-husband.
Nancy Kerrigan turned 50 last October.
Tonya Maxene Price (née Harding) became 49 in
November.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Roosevelt to a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress on December 8,
1941, one day after the Empire of Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval
base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the Japanese declaration of war
on the United States and the British Empire.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Declaration of
War against Japan on December 8, 1941.
John Winston Lennon (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980)
