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It opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed during the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of their completion, the Twin Towers, including the original 1 World Trade Center (the North Tower) at 1,368 feet (417 m), and 2 World Trade Center (the South Tower) at 1,362 feet (415.1 m), were the tallest buildings in the world.
Tisha B'Av (Hebrew: תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב [a] Tīšʿā Bəʾāv; IPA: [tiʃʕa beˈʔav] ⓘ, lit. ' the ninth of Av ') is an annual fast day in Judaism.A commemoration of a number of disasters in Jewish history, primarily the destruction of both Solomon's Temple by the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Second Temple by the Roman Empire in Jerusalem.
A number of Albanian cultural sites in Kosovo were destroyed during the Kosovo conflict (1998–1999) which constituted a war crime violating the Hague and Geneva Conventions. [202] In all 225 out of 600 mosques in Kosovo were damaged, vandalised, or destroyed alongside other Islamic architecture and Islamic libraries and archives with records ...
The Chernobyl disaster[ a ] began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union. [ 1 ] It is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity ...
The original specimen was destroyed in a museum fire. Type specimen: Poekilopleuron. Middle Jurassic France. Destroyed in World War II Cast of the lost gastralia: BSP 1912 VIII 19 Spinosaurus. Lower and Upper Cretaceous. Bahariya Formation Egypt. Destroyed in Germany during World War II when the bombing of the museum it was held in took place.
4 Zhuk-class patrol boats – BG-118 Arabat and one unidentified boat were captured at Berdyansk. [31] BG-108 KaMO-517 and one unidentified boat were destroyed, and their wrecks subsequently captured, during the Siege of Mariupol. [130] 6 Kalkan-class patrol cutters – BG-308, BG-310 and BG-311 were captured at Berdyansk. [131]
The two prototype YC-130s, AF Serial Numbers 53-3396 and 53-3397, were built at the Burbank, California plant, and were given c/ns 1001 and 1002.Production Hercules have all been built at the Lockheed-Marietta, Georgia plant, and began their c/ns at 3001 (USAF 53-3129, still extant at the Air Force Armament Museum).
The library itself was destroyed and its contents burned or sold. Alamut Castle's library Alamut Castle: Iran: 1256 Mongols: Library destroyed after the capitulation of Alamut. [21] House of Wisdom: Baghdad: Iraq: 1258 Mongols: Destroyed during the Battle of Baghdad [22] Libraries of Constantinople Constantinople: Byzantine Empire: 1453 Ottoman ...