Related events:
Tuesday 2nd of November 1965 (-) — Quaker and anti-war protester Norman Morrison commits suicide by self-immolation
Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's office. In the Vietnamese city of Đà Nẵng a road is named after Morrison in memory of his act against the Vietnam-U.S conflict. Friday 19th of May 1972 (x) — Radical left organisation the Weather Underground places a bomb in the women's bathroom in the Air Force wing
The damage caused flooding that destroyed computer tapes holding classified information. Thursday 6th of August 1987 (-) — Psychotic Dwain Wallace is shot dead while attempting to slip past two officers of the Federal Protective Service at the Pentagon's River Entrance
Tuesday 11th of September 2001 (-) — 9/11 terrorist Hani Hanjour crashes with a hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 Boeing 757-223
American Airlines Flight 77 departed from Washington Dulles International Airport at 8:20 a.m. for Los Angeles International Airport with a crew of six and 58 passengers, not including five hijackers. The hijackers crashed into the western side of the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. and started a violent fire. All 64 people on board were killed as were 125 Pentagon personnel. The four other hijackers were 26-year-old Khalid al-Mihdhar, 24-year-old Majed Moqed, 25-year-old Nawaf al-Hazmi and 20-year-old Salem al-Hazmi. |
