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39th year  -  N° 328                 Saturday, 23 November 2024         Antwerpen		
I'm Beginning to See the Light
The Pentagon

Arlington County, Virginia, United States.

Related events:

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. 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.