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  1. Sep 11th 2001 - The September 11 attacks took place. Depicted in World Trade Center (2006), United 93 (2006) and 9/11 (2017)

    📽️📅 World Trade Center (2006)

    📽️📅 Depicted in World Trade Center (2006)

    2 Screenshots from the movie "World Trade Center" (2006): First, a group of uniformed police officers sit inside a city bus, some looking tense while others talk among themselves, sunlight filtering through the windows. Second, a police sergeant, played by Nicolas Cage, stands indoors holding a clipboard, addressing fellow officers with a serious expression.
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  2. Sep 11th - #TheDude writes this date on a check. Upon returning home, he was accosted by Treehorn's thugs. One of them peed on his rug.

    📽️📅 The Big Lebowski (1998)

    4 Screenshots from the movie "The Big Lebowski" (1998): First, a close-up of a hand writing a check for 69 cents at a grocery store counter, next to a Ralphs value club card and a messy checkbook full of scribbles. Second, a disheveled man in a bathrobe is forcefully grabbed by a thug with long blond hair, his head pushed toward a toilet. Third, a man stands with his back to the camera, urinating nonchalantly on a rug inside a dim apartment. Fourth, the main character sits on the toilet in his robe and t-shirt, looking distressed as an intruder looms over him, the bathroom cluttered with towels and worn wallpaper.
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  3. Sep 10th 2001 - The date on a phone found by Dr Lawrence Gordon and Photographer Adam Stanheight after waking up to find themselves trapped in a puzzle.

    📽️📅 Saw (2004)

    3 Screenshots from the movie "Saw" (2004): First, a man on a grimy tiled floor opens a red velvet-lined box containing a cell phone, with blood pooling nearby. Second, a close-up of his hand holding the silver flip phone reveals its scratched surface. Third, the man in a blue shirt looks up with a hopeful smile, clutching the phone tightly in the dim, deteriorated room.
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