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*Ted Olsen, whose wife died during the attack, was born on September 11, 1940. | *Ted Olsen, whose wife died during the attack, was born on September 11, 1940. | ||
*Pornograpic actor [[wikipedia:Lexington Steele|Lexington Steele]] (real name: Clifton Britt) worked as a stock broker before entering pornography and was employed by Oppenheimer Financial, which operated out of the Twin Towers. Steele first entered pornography in 2001, and says that, had he not decided to change careers and kept working as a stock broker, he would have been killed in the attack. | *Pornograpic actor [[wikipedia:Lexington Steele|Lexington Steele]] (real name: Clifton Britt) worked as a stock broker before entering pornography and was employed by Oppenheimer Financial, which operated out of the Twin Towers. Steele first entered pornography in 2001, and says that, had he not decided to change careers and kept working as a stock broker, he would have been killed in the attack. | ||
*Another celebrity who was almost killed in the attacks was [[wikipedia:Seth MacFarlane|Seth MacFarlane]], best known as the creator of the adult cartoon ''[[wikipedia:Family Guy|Family Guy]]''. MacFarlane was supposed to return to Los Angeles on American Airlines Flight 11 - one of the four planes hijacked - from Boston after giving a speech at the Rhode Island School of Design the previous day, but his travel agent got departure time for the flight mixed up, causing him to arrive ten minutes late; by that time, the gate had closed. | |||
*The attack occured on the 28th anniversary of [[Augusto Pinochet]]'s ''coup d'etat'' in Chile. | *The attack occured on the 28th anniversary of [[Augusto Pinochet]]'s ''coup d'etat'' in Chile. | ||
*The attacks surpassed [[the Oklahoma City Bombing]] as the deadliest terrorist attack to occur on American soil. | *The attacks surpassed [[the Oklahoma City Bombing]] as the deadliest terrorist attack to occur on American soil. | ||
== Videos== | == Videos== | ||
[[File:Inside The Twin Towers|A True Story of Happening on September 11th, 2001|left|321x321px]] | [[File:Inside The Twin Towers|A True Story of Happening on September 11th, 2001|left|321x321px]] | ||