Today in History: Terrorists crashed planes into New York’s twin World Trade Center towers in 2001

The following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 11: 

1922 – A British mandate was proclaimed in Palestine. It came into effect at the end of the month, despite Arab protests.

1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, died at 71, the year after his country achieved independence from Britain.

1973 – President Salvador Allende of Chile died in unclear circumstances during a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet.

1988 – Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson shatters world record in 100m gold-medal win at Olympics.

1994 – Actress Jessica Tandy, who appeared in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and won an Oscar for “Driving Miss Daisy”, died aged 85.

1997 – Scotland voted in favour of a British government plan to give it its own assembly for the first time in nearly 300 years.

2001 – Four hijacked planes crashed into New York’s twin World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon in Washington and a field in Pennsylvania, 2,973 people were killed in a coordinated attack unprecedented in modern history and blamed by the United States on the network of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden.

2004 – Specialist Armin Cruz, the first U.S. military intelligence soldier to be court-martialled over the abuse of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, was sentenced to eight months in jail, a reduction in rank and a bad-conduct discharge.

2007 – Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with Miles Davis and helped shape jazz fusion with his band Weather Report, died in his native city of Vienna, aged 75.

2012 – U.S. Consulate attacked in Benghazi, Libya with American staff member dying in the clashes.

2015 – Construction crane crashes in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killing more than a hundred people.