On this day in history, Feb. 26, 1993, World Trade Center bombed in horrific attack

The World Trade Center, located successful nan bosom of Manhattan successful New York City, was built successful 1966 and instantly became an iconic landmark for nan city. 

The Twin Towers, arsenic they were known, stood complete 1,360 feet supra crushed — each holding 110 floors. 

On this time successful history, Feb. 26, 1993, nan World Trade Center was bombed — injuring much than 1,000 people. 

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The greeting of Monday, Feb. 26, 1993, was a wintertime time conscionable for illustration immoderate different successful New York, acold and windy, arsenic thousands of group went to work, according to galore reports. 

Approximately 50,000 group were wrong nan World Trade Center complex — much than 40,000 of them successful nan Twin Towers — according to nan 9/11 Memorial website.

A explosive exploded successful nan parking car shed of nan World Trade Center successful 1993.  (David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

At astir 12:00 p.m., a group of terrorists, including a man named Ramzi Yousef, drove a van into nan nationalist parking car shed beneath nan Towers. 

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The van exploded astir 17 minutes aft noon — creating a 100-foot crater wrong nan northbound tower, according to nan FBI's website.

Six group adjacent nan explosive tract were almost instantly killed: John DiGiovanni, Robert Kirkpatrick, Stephen A. Knapp, William Macko, Wilfredo Mercado and Monica Rodriguez Smith. 

Hundreds of group were treated for fume inhalation and surgery bones aft nan World Trade Center bombing successful Manhattan successful 1993. (Ken Murray/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Stock trader Timothy Lang was parking his car successful nan car shed erstwhile nan explosive exploded. 

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"I was physically lifted disconnected my feet and thrown done nan aerial … My full assemblage was compressed arsenic though being squeezed completely," he recalled to nan 9/11 Memorial Museum. 

Hundreds of group were injured from fume inhalation and surgery bones. 

The bombing occurred astir noon connected Feb. 26, 1993, successful nan bosom of New York City.  (David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

The mastermind down nan bombing was Ramzi Yousef, who arrived successful New York astir 5 and a half months anterior aft learning really to make a explosive successful Afghanistan, according to nan 9/11 Memorial. 

He was moving pinch six different terrorists.

He visited nan World Trade Center aggregate times starring up to nan attack, reports nan 9/11 Memorial.

Yousef was later captured successful Feb. 1995 and convicted 2 years later.

In July 1993, nan Department of State offered a $2 cardinal reward for accusation starring to nan apprehension of Yousef, according to nan U.S. Department of State's website.

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By this time, Yousef had vanished underground.

"U.S. rule enforcement officials believed that Yousef had escaped to Pakistan, but they had small reliable accusation astir his location," nan State Department website notes.

Yousef was later captured successful Feb. 1995 and convicted 2 years later, says nan FBI's website.

The World Trade Center was bombed connected Feb. 26, 1993, successful a shocking onslaught connected nan landmark tract successful Manhattan.  (Ken Murray/David Handschuh/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

This would not beryllium nan only onslaught connected nan Twin Towers, however.

Almost 3,000 group were killed connected Sept. 11, 2001, successful violent attacks that shocked nan world and triggered awesome U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism, notes History.com.

The 1993 onslaught connected nan World Trade Center was a deadly precursor to nan larger attacks of 2001.

"We later learned from Yousef that his Trade Center crippled was acold much sinister," notes nan FBI. 

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"He wanted nan explosive to topple 1 tower, pinch nan collapsing debris knocking down nan second."

The tract continues, "The onslaught turned retired to beryllium thing of a deadly dress rehearsal for 9/11; pinch nan thief of Yousef’s uncle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda would later return to recognize Yousef’s nightmarish vision."