World Trade Center, Once upon a time

World Trade Center was originally a complex of seven buildings in New York City, USA. It was famous for because of two of its main and the longest buildings known as Twin Towers. It was open on 4th April 1973 and was destroyed in 2001 during the famous 9/11 Attacks. Before 9/11 attacks, 11th September was just a date, but after that it became history.

The idea of World Trade Center was first proposed in 1943 and New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey was authorized to begin developing plans for the project, but these plans were put on hold in 1949 because of objections made by New Jersey Governor. In the end of 1961, all the problems and objections in the establishment of World Trade Center were finished, and that was a green signal to start work on the project.

On 20th September, 1962, Minoru Yamasaki selected as lead architect and Emery Roth & Sons as associate architects. Originally, 80 stories were planned for these towers but later the architect planned that both the buildings have to be 110 stories tall. The design were brought on the screen on January 18, 1964.

Among all of seven buildings, most popular buildings were North and South Towers (Twin Towers) were 1,350 feet (415 m) high and occupied about one acre of the total 16 acres of the site's land.

In 1972, after completion, the North Tower became the tallest building in the world surpassing the Empire State Building. The South Tower completed in 1973, and it became the 2nd tallest building of the world. Five other small buildings covered about 16 acres block.

Daily, 50,000 people worked in the towers and 200,000 used to come as visitors. The WTC Complex had its own Zip Code. It was as famous as Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and Chrysler Building.

On 26th February, 1993, a truck filled with 1,500 pounds of explosive was detonated in the underground garage of North Tower that claimed 6 Lives. On 11th September, 2001, two different hijacked flights crashed into both towers with the difference of 17 minutes, and later both the Towers Collapsed. Many Lives were claimed during these terrorist attacks, off which only 1.629 victims were identified.

Today 10 years passed, but still there are many questions, which are un-answered.