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The 9/11 attacks killed 2,996 people, including 19 hijackers and 343 firefighters and police officers. Thousands more were injured and many developed health problems from exposure to dust and toxins at the attack sites.
Salvacion Lim-Higgins (January 28, 1920 – September 15, 1990), also known professionally as Slim, was a Filipino fashion designer known for her haute couture. She is considered by many Filipino culture critics to be the mother of the modern terno .
Florence Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo, was an American track and field athlete and the fastest woman ever recorded. She set world records in 1988 for the 100 m and 200 m and won three gold medals at the 1988 Olympics.
A list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2004, by location, genre, topic and month. Includes awards, festivals, albums, concerts, controversies and deaths of musicians.
A list of verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human death or serious injury, including the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. The article also covers fatalities above and below the Kármán line, and memorials for the fallen astronauts and cosmonauts.
This web page lists unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. It does not provide a list of deaths by year, but only by name, date, and details of the person and the cause of death.
November 12 – U2's Rattle and Hum hits the Number One spot on the U.S. charts, the first double album to do so since Bruce Springsteen's The River in 1980. [ 16 ] December 4 – Singer Roy Orbison gives his last concert in Akron, Ohio , USA, before his death from a heart attack.
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on California's Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The shock was centered in The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Santa Cruz County, approximately 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was named for the nearby Loma Prieta Peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains.