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On This Day - September 11

1939Seahorse (S98)HMS Seahorse was undocked.
1941Thunderbolt (N25)HMS Thunderbolt torpedoes and sinks the German merchant Livorno about 35 nautical miles west-south-west of Benghazi, Libya.
1941O24 (Dutch)Encountered a Motor-Torpedo Boat. Five minutes later two torpedo tracks were seen coming from starboard which were evaded. O24 cleared the area at speed.
1943Rorqual (N74)HMS Rorqual lays her remaining 20 mines off Lemnos, Greece.
1944Venturer (P68)Torpedoed and sank the Norwegian merchant Vang off Lister, Norway
2001Terrorist AttacksTerrorist attacks on the United States result in the destruction of the two largest towers of the World Trade Center in New York by civilian airliners. A third plane crashes into the Pentagon in Arlington VA; a fourth plane crashes when the passengers overpower the hijackers

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