Historical timeline for September 11

Progress MS-32 is launched to resupply the International Space Station. It is the 300th spacecraft launched to the ISS.

Hurricane Francine impacts the Gulf of Mexico, as a Category 2 hurricane.

Soyuz MS-26 is launched to the International Space Station, setting a record of 19 people in orbit at the same time.

The Libyan city of Derna experiences catastrophic floods after Storm Daniel causes two dams to collapse, killing thousands of people.

A crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.

The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.

A total of 315 people are killed in two garment factory fires in Pakistan.

A dedication ceremony is held at the United States National September 11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City, and the memorial opens to family members.

A major Channel Tunnel fire breaks out on a freight train, resulting in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.

Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of All Bombs.

Nineteen members of al-Qaeda execute the September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks that killed 2,977 people using four hijacked aircraft. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

Kurkse tragedy: Fourteen Estonian soldiers of the Baltic Battalion are drowned or die of hypothermia during a training exercise in the Kurkse Strait.

NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.

The first game of the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, pitting incumbent champion Garry Kasparov against challenger Viswanathan Anand, takes place on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center's South Tower in New York City.

Hurricane Iniki strikes the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaii, killing seven and causing $3.1bn in economic damages.

Continental Express Flight 2574 crashes in Colorado County, Texas, near Eagle Lake, killing 11 passengers and three crew.

A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.

Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.

Moimenta-Alcafache train crash, the worst railway accident to occur in Portugal.