United Airlines Flight 93 departed Newark International Airport in New Jersey at 8:42 a.m. en route to San Francisco International Airport with a crew of seven and 37 passengers, not including four hijackers. The hijacking began at 09:28. A passenger revolt began at 09:57 after the passengers voted on whether to act. At 10:03 the plane crashed into a field near a reclaimed coal strip mine. The three other hijackers were 20-year-old Ahmed al-Haznawi, 24-year-old Ahmed al-Nami and 21-year-old Saeed al-Ghamdi. (11 September 2001)
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Tuesday 6th of September 1966 (-) — Prime Minister of South Africa Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed in the neck and chest four times by parliamentary messenger Dimitri Tsafendas Tsafendas claimed he had a worm in his stomach that urged him to kill Verwoerd.