Historical Events on September 11 (Part 2)

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• 2002 Through extreme and coordinated effort, The Pentagon is rededicated after repairs are completed, exactly one year after the attack on the building.
• 2003 Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh dies after being assaulted and fatally wounded on September 10.
• 2003 The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety enters into effect.
• 2004 All passengers are killed when a helicopter crashes in the Aegean Sea. Passengers include Patriarch Peter VII of Alexandria and 16 others (including journalists and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

• 2005 The State of Israel completes its unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
• 2007 Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
• 2008 Chris Sharma redpoints Jumbo Love at Clark Mountain, California, the world's first-ever consensus 9b (5.15b) route
• 2009 Sweden emerges from the recession after witnessing GDP growth of 0.2% in the second quarter
• 2009 The Brazilian economy technically leaves the recession when GDP grew 1.9% in the second quarter of 2009 after having fallen in the first quarter of 2009 and last quarter of 2008
• 2012 29 people are killed and 11 injured after a bus runs off a mountain highway in Nepal
• 2012 50 Al-Shabaab fighters are killed in conflict with the Somali National Army
• 2012 Japan nationalizes three of the disputed Senkaku Islands
• 2012 The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador
• 2012 The US is warned by Moody's that its AAA credit rating is at risk if lawmakers fail to produce a long-term debt reduction plan
• 2013 12 Alawite sect members are killed by rebel fighters in central Syria
• 2014 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp (and is later found guilty of culpable homicide)
• 2015 A large crane collapses killing more than 100 people in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
• 2015 Ex-Governor of Texas, Rick Perry becomes the first candidate to drop out of race for the Republican nomination

• 2017 Norwegian Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg, heading a right-wing coalition, claims victory in Norway's general election

• 2017 UN imposes new export sanctions on North Korea

• 2018 American-backed militia begins final push to oust militants from Hajin, Syria, last area under Islamic State control
• 2018 Bus crash in southern Indian state of Telangana kills 53

• 2018 James Anderson takes his 564th Test wicket to become the most prolific fast bowler in cricket history as England beats India by 118 runs in the 5th Test at The Oval for a 4-1 series victory; Alistair Cook's final Test
• 2018 Russia launches its largest military exercise since 1981 involving 300,000 personal with Chinese troops participating
• 2018 Suicide bombing in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, kills 68 and injures 165
• 2019 Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"
• 2021 74th Cannes Film Festival: Audrey Diwan's "Happening" (L'Événement) wins the Palme d'Or

• 2022 Swedish General Election narrowly won by right-wing coalition defeating sitting center-left government headed by Magdalena Andersson [1]
• 2022 Ukraine's military says it has retaken 3,000 sq km during a rapid counter-offensive in eastern Ukraine in the last few days [1]

• 2023 San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) retires the last of the original 1972 train cars; all cars are now BART's "Train Of The Future" series, first introduced in 2018

• 2023 US sets a record for number of 23 weather disasters in one year costing more than $1 billion, in less than nine months [1]

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