[Guenevere]

#2014...The significance?....No

Another poster stated that London, Madrid and New York started at 8:49.

I had not realized this.....but have no idea of the significance.

[kassie]

I had not realized the time.

[Sacajaweau]

That's probably the most "scheduled" part of a day and most favorable to getting into a crowd relatively unnoticed. For all we know, a typical suicide bomber has been making a friend on a bus route to pull this off when he gets the call.

[B Knotts]

Interesting. The only thing I can find is that the Saracens were defeated off Ostia by a papal fleet in A.D. 849.