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Terrorist Attacks Top Event In 75 Years

September 12, 2003

(CPOD) Sept. 12, 2003 - Americans rank 9/11 as the most important event in the last 75 years, according to a poll by RoperASW. 65 per cent of respondents mention the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington as the most noteworthy occurrence.

Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked and crashed four airplanes on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people.

The 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ranked second, followed by the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, Martin Luther King's march on Washington and the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Polling Data

What would you say is the most important event in the last 75 years?
(All mentions)

9/11 Terrorist attacks

65%

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

61%

Atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima

46%

Martin Luther King march on Washington

26%

Apollo 11 moon landing

24%

1929 stock market crash

24%

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

23%

World War II D-Day

21%

Cuban missile crisis

7%

Watergate Scandal

5%


Source: RoperASW
Methodology: Interviews to 1,036 American adults, conducted from Sept. 5 to Sept. 9, 2003. No margin of error was provided.

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