September 11, 2001: September 13th Timeline

Thursday, September 13, 2001
10:35 A.M. - Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta announces that airspace will reopen at 11:00 A.M.

11:00 A.M. - FAA reopens national airspace to commercial flights.

11:02 A.M. - President George W. Bush speaks with New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani.

11:15 A.M. - The NFL calls off its entire schedule for the upcoming weekend.

12:20 P.M. - President George W. Bush makes remarks while visiting Washington Hospital Center.

12:27 P.M. - Department of Defense Briefing

1:00 P.M. - Briefing by Secretary of State Colin Powell

1:46 P.M. - NASCAR postpones its Sunday race.

2:00 P.M. - Department of Defense Briefing

3:15 P.M. - Briefing by White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer

3:22 P.M. - President George W. Bush declares Friday, September 14, 2001, a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance.

3:23 P.M. - The NY Stock Exchange will resume trading on Monday.

3:30 P.M. - Major League Baseball postpones all its games through Sunday.

4:20 P.M. - Black Box found at Pennsylvania crash site.

5:00 P.M. - New York City-area airports (Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark) are closed.

5:50 P.M. - Vice-President Dick Chaney is moved to Camp David, Maryland to keep the President and Vice-President in separate locations.

@6:30 P.M. - Dartmouth at Colgate and Lehigh at Penn college football games cancelled; all NCAA Division I college football games now postponed; all major sporting events now postponed through Sunday.

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