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Fall of the Twin Towers was 25 years ago

RTP Notícias11 September 2026 at 14:00

The fall of the Twin Towers occurred 25 years ago. The article states that the first plane hit one of the Twin Towers at 1:46 PM in Continental Portugal, which corresponds to 8:46 AM in New York. This was the moment of the first impact during the September 11, 2001 attacks. The article is brief and serves mainly as a temporal reference for the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of this event.

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