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The Port Authority announced the selection of Minoru Yamasaki as lead architect and Emery Roth & Sons as associate architects.
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Yamasaki's design for the World Trade Center, unveiled to the public
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Demolition work began to clear thirteen square blocks of low rise buildings in Radio Row for construction of the World Trade Center
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Construction work began on the North Tower
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Construction work began on the South Tower
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It was the ribbon cutting ceremony
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The first terrorist attack in the WTC occurred in the north tower with the detonation of explosives planted in the underground garage by Ramzi Yousef
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Islamist terrorists hijacked American Airlines Flight 11 and crashed it into the North Tower at 8:46:40 a.m.
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Islamist terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower at 9:03:11 a.m.
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At 9:59 a.m., the South Tower collapsed and at 10:28 a.m. the North Tower collapsed
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The reconstruction of the new World Trade Center begins
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The National September 11 Memorial & Museum opens
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The new WTC is inaugurated and is named as: "One World Trade Center"
