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Notes -
Two possibilities come to mind:
1/ The global coverage of media. We don't need to name things more descriptively because "we" all know what happened on those dates.
2/ Following the trend established by 9/11 - it was such an unprecedented event that it's not surprising it got named differently to other catastrophes.
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