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Here is the final draft of the ATL so far:
August 15th, 1977: Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University then located at Ohio Wesleyan University's Perkins Observatory, Delaware, Ohio. The signal bore all of the hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-Solar System origin. It lasted for the full 72-second duration that Big Ear observed it, but was never detected again. The message was detected in the Sagitarius Constellation, roughly 122 light-years from Earth, making any conversation or exchange of information impossible, but the effect was clear, humanity was no longer the sentient life form in the universe...
August 16th, 1977: President Jimmy Carter, after receiving a briefing by his scientific advisors announces the radio signal to the world as a "profound discovery, which serves notice that we are not the sole heirs of creation..."
August 16th, 1977: Singer Elvis Presley proclaims that the signal is "divine providence", running onto his lawn and going into prayer at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee...
August 18th, 1977: Senator William Proxmire (D-WI) voices his scepticism, stating about the president's speech,"It's the best argument yet for chopping NASA's funding to the bone .... I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy..."
August 20th, 1977: Although conceived and planned since the late 1960s, the Voyager 2 launch gains one of its highest television ratings for NASA, with the launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
August 21st, 1977: Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) and William Proxmire (D-WI) demand an investigation into the "WOW! signal".
August 25th, 1977: A Senate Committee is formed to investigate the "WOW! signal".
August 26th, 1977: Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell states during a rally in Virginia Beach, Virginia,"Without Divine interference we are alone in the universe and without Christ we are—and should be—terrified. The gospel is as relevant as ever..."
August 27th 1977: Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev says in a speech "It is clear that we are not alone in this universe, but there are fellow comrades elsewhere who like all sapient species must still abide by Karl Marx's great insights. I can but hope there the withering away of the State has already been accomplished".
August 30th, 1977: Mayor Abraham Beame is shot and killed by Aron Kay at the Cooper Union in New York City, New York, sending shockwaves nationwide....
September 3, 1977: All Canadian road signs are converted to metric units.
September 11th, 1977: Ruth Norman (a.k.a. "Spaceship Ruthy"), Unarian Academy of Sciences, appears on The Tonight Show (NBC-TV), telling Johnny Carson to expect alien landings "before the end of the year..." in Los Angeles, California. Also on this day, Following promising ratings the miniseries Washington Behind Closed Doors gets additional episodes to finish the shows fictionalized version of Watergate and Nixon's Downfall. The show stars Cliff Robertson, Jason Robbards, and Robert Vaughn as fictional versions of Nixon, Halderman, and the CIA Director.
September 27, 1977: Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau is coerced by Robert Stanfield and Ed Broadbent to purchase the decommissioned fleet carrier HMS Eagle (R05) from the British government. The Eagle is towed to Saint John, Newfoundland where it will begin its rebuild at the Saint John Shipbuilding facilities.
September 29th, 1977: Carl Sagan appears on The Tonight Show (NBC-TV) with host Johnny Carson, discussing the importance of "first contact" in Los Angeles, California....
October 1, 1977: The Canadian government purchases 64 A-7E Corsair II attack fighters, 8 E-2B Hawkeye carrier based AEW aircraft, and 80 S-2F Tracker carrier based maritime patrol planes for the Canadian Forces Maritime Command. The government also looks into getting a carrier based multirole fighter as part of the NFA.
October 14th, 1977: Anti-gay conservative activist Anita Bryant is shot and killed in Des Moines, Iowa, shocking many Americans , sparking civil unrest and violence nationwide....
October 18, 1977: The Nimitz-class super carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is commissioned into United States Navy as the second Nimitz class carrier.
October 27th, 1977: Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) under Yasser Arafat declares independence as the "Confederation of Palestine" in Ramallah...
November 24. 1977: Sterling Lyon becomes 17th premier of Manitoba, replacing Edward Schreyer.
November 25th, 1977: Israeli troops begin withdrawal from the West Bank in Ramallah, establishing the borders for the Palestinian state...
December 13th, 1977: United Nations General Assembly Resolution #32/91 is passed in New York City, New York calling upon the Israeli government to respect the borders of the Palestinian state....
December 19th, 1977: United Nations officials call for the distribution of humanitarian aid and relief in Palestine, sparking concerns by Israeli military over possible arms shipments...
December 22nd 1977: Ayatollah Khomeini dies in an automobile accident in Najaf.
December 25th, 1977: Professor Carl Sagan speaks on the importance of the radio signals, during a lecture at the Royal Institution in London, England...
January 21st, 1978: Anti-Communist leader Oleksa Hirnyk launches protests against the Soviet government in Lvov, Ukraine SSR...
January 26th, 1978: California State Assembly passes the Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEM) in Sacramento, California requiring that 2% of vehicles be Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs) by 1986 and 10% ZEVs by 1991. GM and Ford call the measure "socialist tripe"....
February 1st, 1978: Jerry Falwell warns of a possible assassination attempt against President Jimmy Carter, warning that UFOs are a "Satanic tool of deception to cnfuse and confound mankind", during an interview in Virginia Beach, Virginia...
March 6th, 1978: Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler is shot and killed outside the court house in Lawrenceville, Georgia by white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin....
March 17th, 1978: Ufologist Nigel Watson warns of a possible chemical or nuclear accident, during a press conference in London, England, claiming to have translated the 1977 radio signals...
April 3rd, 1978: Star Wars wins the Oscars for Best Film and Best Director for George Lucas at Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles, California. Many attribute the win to the fascination in space created by the "Wow!" signal....
April 24th, 1978: High Rollers (NBC-TV) hosted by Alek Trebek, makes its hit television series debut in Burbank, California....
May 1st 1978: Shah Reza Pahlvani announces extensive political reforms, hoping to stop protests against his regime...
May 19th, 1978: Victor Wouk releases 1974 documents from the EPA revealing the viability of "hybrid vehicles" to New York Times....
May 27th, 1978: Jerry Falwell proclaims that UFOs are the "transports of demons fom hell" during a televised sermon in Virginia Beach, Virginia...
June 15th 1978: Rev. Jim Jones of the People's Temple cult and Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles of the Heaven's Gate cult meet at Jonestown to form a new UFO-based cult Messenger of Heaven.
June 23rd, 1978: Musa Mamut leads protests for Crimean Tartars in Lvov, Ukraine SSR, sparking calls for greater autonomy...
July 25th, 1978: Jerry Falwell proclaims that the lack of evidence of life on other worlds across the solar system as "proof of divine providence.."
August 12th, 1978: The Last Temptation of Christ starring Christopher Walken as Jesus of Nazareth, sparks international controversy upon release...
September 29th, 1978: General Edmundo Meneses seizes control of the government in a military coup in Managua, Nicaragua...
November 5 1978: Dan White commits suicide and leaves a note saying "The arrival of the Greater Beings are imminent-I must come to them".
November 12th, 1978: Scientists question the "Wow!" signal during a press conference in Washington D.C., calling it a "political football"....
20th November 1978: A second signal is received by the Big ear telescope and numerous other similar facilities the world over including the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Bad Münstereifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. The signal clearly transmitting the first 24 Prime numbers removing much doubt from the scientific community that the original WoW signal could be explained by a natural phenomena.
November 24th, 1978: 5,000 people gather in Warrenville, Illinois, after Guido Franch proclaims a UFO landing. Most people leave in disappointment when nothing happens.....
December 5th, 1978: Wei Jingsheng leads pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square calling for the "Fifth Moderniztion" (democracy) in Beijing, China...
December 12th, 1978: Fortunato Zanfretta of Torriglia, Italy proclaims UFO the possibility of UFO landings, after an alleged UFO abduction, during an interview on Italian television....
December 18th-24th, 1978: United Nations General Assembly establishes "Special Political Committee" to deal with the issue of human-extraterrestrial contact in New York City, New York...
January 1st, 1979: Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping warns President Jimmy Carter, "Children who don't listen have to be spanked." regarding both pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square and the border with Vietnam...
January 7th, 1979: Chinese-backed Cambodian leader Pol Pot launches a crackdown on the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party in Phnom Penh, Cambodia...
January 17, 1979: Edward Richard Schreyer becomes the 65th Governor General of Canada succeeding Jules Léger who had been governor general since January 14, 1974.
January 26th, 1979: Tiananmen Square Massacre; 27th and 38th Armies of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) clear Tiananmen Square, killing 241 people, and placing 2,000 people under arrest....
February 7th, 1979: Josef Mengele (a.k.a. "Angel of Death") is captured by Elie Weisel in Sao Paulo, Brazil....
February 13th, 1979: In a televised address, President Jimmy Carter publicly condemns the actions of the People's Republic of China, stating that it is not "an internal matter"....
February 14, 1979: The Audacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) is decommissioned leaving the United States, Canada and France as the only members of NATO with fleet carriers. The Ark Royal is put into reserve in case it needs to be brought back into service instead of the original plan of having it sold for scrap.
February 17th, 1979: 200,000 Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops enter into Vietnam under General Xu Shiyou...
March 6th, 1979: Chinese PLA forces announce the capture of the government in Hanoi, Vietnam, sparking tensions with the Soviet Union....
March 23rd, 1979: President Jimmy Carter orders the deployment of the U.S. 7th Fleet into the South China Sea in an effort to monitor Chinese operations...
March 28, 1979: Three Mile Island suffers a complete nuclear meltdown.
April 3rd, 1979: Phoenix Solar and Electric 500 Rally is held in Phoenix, Arizona, promoting Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs) from across the globe....
April 14th, 1979: Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) states," I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have..."
May 22, 1979: The Progressive Conservative Party wins a majority in the 1979 Canadian Federal election with 150 seats. The Liberal Party has 90 seats, the NDP has 36, and the Social Credt Party has 6 seats. With a majority, PC party leader Joe Clark becomes the 16th Prime Minister of Canada. It is a position he will hold until June 1987.
May 25th, 1979: Prometheus directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Hom and Yaphet Koto, offers a pessimistic view of the "Wow! Signal" warning that it might actually be a warning than an invitation...
June 2nd 1979: In the UK, the government announces "the need for Britain to take into account the current issues facing the world and accordingly respond. Namely by expanding British interests in space". Research into the sea dragon rocket is made a priority and it seems that Britain is going to attempt an independent space programme.
June 7th, 1979: Bhaskara-I fired into space from Sriharikota, India, the first communications satellite for India, sparking concern over a possible arms race...
June 14th, 1979: Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón begin trafficking cocaine into the United States, in an effort to back the Meneses regime in Managua....
June 19th 1979: Lemoniz Nuclear Meltdown; ETA Basque terrorists trigger a nuclear meltdown in the Lemoniz Nuclear Power Station in Lemoniz, Spain...
June 21st, 1979: San Diego Riots; Riots erupt in San Diego, California after Mark Block claims a massive UFO landing outside the city limits....
July 3rd, 1979: Under secrecy, President Jimmy Carter signs the first presidential directive aiding Vietnamese forces against the People's Republic of China in Washington D.C.,...
July 16th, 1979: Iraqi President Ahmad Hasan Bakr signs the Iraq-Syria Agreement in Damascus, Syria, sparking tensions throughout the region...
August 5th, 1979: Cattle are found mutilated near Hayward, Wisconsin. Cows are missing various body parts.
August 10th, 1979: ISRO successfully launches the SLV-3 with Rohini Technology Payload on board into orbit, launching India into the role of space-faring nation...
August 15th, 1979: Apocalypse Now starring Harrison Ford, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, makes its hit debut, many attribute the success to the Chinese invasion of Vietnam...
August 16, 1979: 13th Prime Minister of Canada and former Progressive Conservative Party leader John G. Diefenbaker dies in his study.
September 28th, 1979: President Jimmy Carter releases his Space Policy Initiative (SNI) during a Rose Garden speech in Washington D.C.,...
October 26th, 1979: South Korean President Park Chung-hee survives an assassination attempt on his life in Seoul, South Korea, fueling tensions with the military....
November 9th, 1979: Robert Taylor claims to have been abducted by extraterrestrials after a UFO sighting in Livingston, Scotland, sparking national attention and concern...
November 11th, 1979: ETA Basque terrorists demand independence for Basque territories or they will trigger a meltdown at the Equipos Nucleares plant in Maliano, Spain...
November 17th, 1979: Unabomber bombs American Airlines Flight #444, Boeing 727 blows up over O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois....
November 26th, 1979: The Cergy-Pontoise Three; Jean-Pierre Prévot and three other men appear before the press claiming to have been abducted by aliens in Cergy-Pontoise, France, sparking international attention and concern...
12 December 1979: With increased interest in space the United Kingdom reforms its space agency expanding once neglected facilities at Woomera. For this expansion of the facility Australia is made a junior partner in the new Royal Space Agency.
December 24th, 1979: European Space Agency (ESA) announces the launch of the CAT-1 satellite from Kourou, French Guiana, launching a third power into the "Space Race"....
January 3rd 1980: The Royal Space Agency is founded. Initial testing of the Sea Dragon rocket pass expectations. What will potentially be the biggest rocket in existance is given extra funding in order to begin further research into the project. Many in the British public are supportive of this, and a number of private investors offer to help fund the Agency.
4 January 1980: Construction begins of Soviet Shuttles as part of the Buran program an attempt to match the US capabilities. The shuttle is however lighter with smaller engines on the shuttle itself it only has a slightly smaller payload as its US counterpart, relying much more on its booster rocket to reach orbit.
February 15th, 1980: Famous musicians Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb of the Bee-Gees meet with religious leader Eduard Albert Meier , after proclaiming psychic contact with alien beings in Bülach, Switzerland....
March 17th, 1980: Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on Saturday Night Live (NBC-TV) in New York City, New York. In an opening sketch, they demand the $10,000 from Lorne Micheals. The appearence fuels rumors of a possible reunion...
March 19, 1980: The Imperial Iranian Air Force begins getting the first of its order of 160 F-16A/B Fighting Falcon multirole fighters.
March 24th, 1980: Father Óscar Romero survives an assassination attempt by government troops in San Salvador, El Salvador, sparking tensions between the ruling elite and the Roman Catholic Church...
March 28th, 1980: The Changeling horror film starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere makes its hit debut, based on the fear that the alien signals are actually coming from a supernatural source....
April 1st, 1980: Iraqi Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is assassinated by members of the Pro-Iran al-Da‘wa Party in Najaf, sparking riots nationwide...
April 8th, 1980: Sectarian violence erupts after President Ahmad Hasan Bakr announces meeting with Shah Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran....
April 10, 1980: The Canadian goverments announces that the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet are the winners of the New Fighter Aircraft program. The Canadian government orders 96 F-14A Tomcats (equipped with the Pratt & Whitney F401-PW-400 turbofans instead of the TF-30s) and 144 F/A-18 Hornet multirole fighters to replace the obselete CF-101 Voodoos, CF-104 Starfighters, and CF-116 Freedom Fighters.
April 12, 1980: Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope run across Canada in support of cancer research starting in St. Johns, Newfoundland with the intent of running the length of Canada to Victoria, British Columbia. A major PR coup for the CF is done when the Forces' offer to provide a helicopter to support Terry Fox in his attempt to run across the country.
May 14, 1980: Work is started on a bridge spanning the Abegweit Passage of the Northumberland Strait connecting Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick.
May 21st, 1980: Black Angel directed by Roger Christian, makes its hit film debut, with a revival of the fantasy film genre....
June 6th 1980: An engine test for the HOTOL project ends in disaster, with a large detonation and the death of a research assistant. The public begin to wonder why the Royal Space Agency is backing this project.
June 9th, 1980: Comedian Richard Pryor dies in Los Angeles, California, after free-basing cocaine and accidentally setting himself on fire....
July 11, 1980: The British light carrier HMS Invincible (R05) is commissioned into the Royal Navy. The Invincible is 775 feet (236.22 meters) in length and carries 36 fixed wing aircraft and helicopters (in a mix of 24 Sea Harriers, 6 EH101 Merlin multirole helicopters, and 6 Sea King ASW helicopters).
July 18th, 1980: Indian government officials announce the launch of the Rohini D-1 satellite into orbit from Sriharinkota, India, sparking international attention and concern,....
July 31st, 1980: Musicians Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb of the Bee-Gees establish a chain of starting in Los Angeles, California, proclaiming the idea of psychic contact with extraterrestrials....
August 26, 1980: The Canadian government announces a plan to build 30 new destroyers and frigates to replace Canada's aging fleet of surface combatants.
September 1, 1980: Terry Fox's attempt to run the length of Canada is cut short due to spreading cancer at Thunder Bay, Ontario. The next day, Fox held a tearful press conference during which he announced that his cancer had returned and spread to his lungs. He was forced to end his run after 143 days and 5,373 kilometers (3,339 mi).
September 4th, 1980: Iranian Shah Reza Pahlavi launches major offensive in the south of Iraq, sparking a larger conflict in the region...
September 25th, 1980: John Bonham, lead drumer for Ledd Zeppelin is hospitalized in Windsor, England after nearly suffocating from his own vommit...
October 3rd, 1980: "Talk is Cheap" by Elvis Presley makes its hit musical debut, signalling a musical comeback in Memphis, Tennessee...
November 4 1980: James Earl Carter is narrowly re-elected President of the United States, defeating the Republican nominee George HW Bush. Also on this day, California voters approve the Proposition 8, backed by the Electric Auto Association (EAA), granting a $1,000 tax credit for electric vehicles...
November 10th, 1980: Iranian military forces seize control of Basra and Mandali, Iraq, with heavy resistance by guerilla forces...
November 11, 1980: The motion picture Star Trek II is a major hit. The plot deals with the crew of the Enterprise traveling back in time to went interstellar contact was first made with Earth. Source material for the film comes mainly from Ray Bradbury and the book Chariot of the Gods?.
December 3rd, 1980: Elvis Presley emerges from the Betty Ford Clinic in Los Angeles, California saying that he will remain substance free...
December 8th, 1980: Singer John Lennon is hospitalized after being shot by Mark David Chapman in New York City, New York....
December 11, 1980: A mistake in the Alabama delegation 'accidentally' cast their ballots for Jimmy Carter / George Wallace, throwing the election of the Vice President to the United States Senate. With the Democrats holding a majority in the Senate, the Carter Administration does not try to challenge these 'accidental' results.
December 21st, 1980: On an episode of Cosmos (PBS-TV), Carl Sagan, openly questions what huamnity's response should be regarding the alien radio signals...
December 26th, 1980: Lord Hill Norton briefs Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Bristol stating,"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists seems to me to be overwhelming... A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances... been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by... interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another..."
December 29th, 1980: Cash-Landrum Incident; Residents of New Caney, Texas report the crash of an extraterrestrial UFO, sparking a massive flood of tourists and curiosity seekers to the region....
January 8, 1981: Several Southern Democrats defect and narrowly elect Republican Vice Presidential nominee John Connally Vice President of the United States.
January 16, 1981: Several retired members of the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron and 603 Squadron get together and found the Supermarine Aerospace Corporation in Greenwich, Britain.
January 18th, 1981: United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution #35/34 condemning Chinese military actions in Vietnam....
March 6, 1981: Work is started on the Fort McMurray Nuclear Power Plant in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
March 30, 1981: John Hinckley, Jr. assassinates President James Earl Carter, Jr (Democratic). Vice President John Connally (Republican) succeeds to the Presidency, amid protests.
April 11th, 1981: President John Connelly gives the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) a green light to arm anti-Communist guerillas via the heroin trade through Burma. Also on this day, Attorney General Griffin Bell announces that at least 7 people associated with John Hinckley Jr., have mysteriously died since the assassination....
April 19th, 1981: Secret Service officials obtain the autopsy reports from the assassination of President Jimmy Carter, sparking national attention...
May 1st, 1981: FBI and Secret Service agents in Quantico, Virginia report that they are having extreme difficulty recreating the circumstances of the Carter assassination....
May 11th, 1981: The Beatles led by Paul McCartney and John Lennon announce a reunion tour in New York City, New York...
May 13th, 1981: Pope John Paul II is assassinated by Mehmet Ali Ağca in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City,sparking international outrage....
May 24th, 1981: Los Angeles Times begins posting the "Capricorn Assassination Theory", claiming an assassination based on space program policies....
May 27, 1981: Kouroush (D10) is commissioned into the Iranian Navy as the first of the Kidd-class guided missile destroyers.
May 30th, 1981: Major General Abul Monjur overthrows the government with a military coup in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sparking tensions throughout the region...
June 14, 1981: The Huaynaputina volcano erupts in full force, with a VEI 6.
June 28, 1981: Terry Fox dies at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia. In Canada, flags are at half staff that day.
July 1, 1981: Prime Minister Joe Clark announces the creation of the Royal Canadian Space Agency.
July 17th, 1981: Arthur starring Farrah Fawcett and Dudley Moore, makes its hit film debut. Also on this day, The government of British Columbia named a 2,639-metre (8,658 foot) peak in the Rocky Mountains after Terry Fox.
July 30, 1981: The 83-kilometre (52 mi) section of the Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario where Terry Fox was forced to end his run, was renamed in his honor.
August 11, 1981: The Mackenzie-class destroyer escort HMCS Qu’Appelle is renamed HMCS Terry Fox after recently deceased humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist Terry Fox.
August 29, 1981: Daryush (D11) is commissioned into the Iranian Navy as the second of the Kidd-class guided missile destroyers.
August 30th, 1981: Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar calls for massive political reforms from Shah Reza Pahlavi, during a rally in Tehran, Iran...
31 August 1981: The Royal Space Agency officially backs the HOTOL project, an ambitious attempt at a re-usable unmanned space plane using air-breathing rocket engines designed by Alan Bond.
October 6th, 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat narrowly survives an assassination atempt, during a military review parade in Cairo....
October 18th, 1981: Widow Rose Carter testifies before the U.S. Senate regarding the assassination of President Jimmy Carter, sparking international attention in Washington D.C.,...
October 20, 1981: The Australian government purchases 80 F/A-18A/B Hornets and 60 F-15A/B Eagles for the Royal Australian Air Force to replace the Royal Australian Air Force’s Dassault Mirage III fighters.
October 24, 1981: Nader (D12) is commissioned into the Iranian Navy as the third of the Kidd-clas guided missile destroyers.
October 27th, 1981: Billy Carter, brother to President Jimmy Carter, narrowly survives a plane crash in South Plains, Georgia, sparking conspiracy theories....
December 12th, 1981: Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón launch political campaign to support the regime of General Edmundo Meneses at major American universities, starting in San Francisco, California...
December 13th, 1981: Soviet troops enter into Warsaw, despite the actions of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, sparking international condemnation....
December 15th, 1981: "I Believe" album by Elvis Presley, makes its hit debut, including singles "Jesus In My Soul", "I Was There When It Happened"...
December 17th, 1981: Fighting erupts between Palestine and Israel, as Syria arms Hezbollah guerillas along the Golan Heights region....
December 20, 1981: The South African amphibious assault ships SAS Table Mountain and SAS Transvaal are launched from the Sandock Austal shipyards in Durban, South Africa.
January 5th, 1982: Representative Charlie Wilson (D-TX) calls for an expansion of covert aid to guerilla forces in Vietnam...
January 23rd, 1982: Carlos Cabezas begins trafficking cocaine from Nicaragua into San Francisco, Caifornia through SFO International Airport....
January 29th, 1982: United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution #36/37 condemning Chinese military invasion of Vietnam, sparking international attention,..
March 3rd, 1982: FBI agents announce the arrest of a possible "second gunman" in San Francisco, California, sparking national attention and controversy...
March 8th, 1982: New York Times reports the discovery of 2 bank accounts for John Hinckley Jr., in Chevy Chase, Maryland with funds totalling c. $7 million, fueling conspiracy theories...
March 13, 1982: The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is commissioned into the United States Navy. Also on this day, Anoshirvan (D13) is commissioned into the Iranian Navy as the last of the Kidd-class guided missile destroyers.
March 24th, 1982: Abdus Sattar is named acting president after protests overthrow the military regime in Chittagong, Bangladesh....
March 31st, 1982: The Academy (NBC-TV) sitcom makes its debut starring Jimmy Baio, Peter Frechette, and David Raynr...
April 6th, 1982: William O'Neil proclaims to have isolated the extraterrestrial radio signals with a device called the "Aliencom", during a press conference in Washington D.C., sparking national attention....
April 20th, 1982: Iranian forces destroy the oil refiners in Khonqin and Mandali creating one of the largest environmental disasters in the region's history...
April 29th, 1982: Iraqi military forces fail to capture Khoramshahr and Abadan, amidst heavy casualties...
May 4, 1982: The HMCS Eagle (CV-23) is launched from Saint John Shipbuilding. It is now 860 feet (262.128 meters) in length, has a 12 degree flight deck, a new bridge tower (based on the design of the CVA-01 superstructure), three. new steam catapults (taken from retired Essex-class carriers), new boilers, improved HVAC systems, and computerized engineering controls.
June 11th, 1982: Watch the Skies! film directed by Steven Spielberg, warns of a possible invasion of extra-terrestrials, becoming a major blockbuster....
June 19th, 1982: Washington Post reports that General Alexander Haig, a vocal opponent of many of Carter's policies, was photographed outside the hotel where Carter was shot, just minutes after the assassination...
June 20, 1982: HMS Illustrious (R06) is commissioned into the Royal Navy.
June 24th, 1982: UFO rallies are held in major cities across the globe after self-proclaimed psychic Barry Andrews proclaims, "The mass landing will take place in all the world's capitals,...."
June 25, 1982: Herbert Prohaska and Walter Schachner fail to be informed of the rigging attempt, so when Bruno Pezzey passes to Prohaska (believing this is safe), Prohaska passes the ball to Schachner who is not defended and Schachner scores in the 58th minute. Thus Algeria and Austria advance.
Thus Austria lands in the Anglo-Spanish group and England wins. England then goes on to win their second World cup, 3-2 in the Semifinal against France and 2-1 against Italy.
August 1st, 1982: Government of President David Arap Moi is overthrown in a military coup led by General Hezekiah Ochuka in Nairobi, Kenya...
August 11th, 1982: Pan Am Flight #830, Boeing 747 blows up after a terrorist bomb detonates outside of Honolulu, Hawaii killing 264 people...
October 2, 1982: The Falklands War kicks off when Argentina invades the Falklands Islands. During the 74-day war, the HMS Hermes is sunk by Argentine fighters while the British get revenge by capturing the General Belgrano and sinking the Veinticinco de Mayo. The war ends with surrender of Argentina and the Falklands in British hands. The ARA General Belgrano is stationed in the Thames River near Buckingham Palace as a war trophy.
October 16th, 1982: Elvis Presley meets with President John Connelly in Washington D.C.,...
October 22nd, 1982: Rambo: First Blood premiers. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, and Richard Crenna. It is about a Vietnam vet getting hassled by a local police department and fighting back. It is a block buster
Octobr 31st, 1982: Wayne Aho proclaims UFO landings, during the Halloween episode of Real People (NBC-TV)....
November 10th, 1982: Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev dies in Moscow, Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin is chosen as his successor...
November 14th, 1982: Gossip starring Simon Callow and Gary Oldman, makes its hit film debut,...
January 17th, 1983: Nicaraguan crime lord Carlos Cabezas is brutally executed at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, California after attempting to challenge Norwin Meneses for the cocaine trade....
March 9, 1983: The first British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3 is delivered to the Royal Air Force as part of its program to modernize its armed forces. A total of fourtysix aircraft will be delivered to the Royal Air Force.
March 28th, 1983: Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter, in an interview with Dan Rather (CBS-TV), states "Connelly was behind this, there needs to be a deeper investigation..."
April 17th, 1983: Soviet Union under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin becomes a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Geneva, Switzerland...
April 18th, 1983: Giles Bentley introduces "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil, OTL's "Viagra") at the American Urological Association meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada as a means to deal with male erectile dysfunction....
May 1st-2nd, 1983: V (NBC-TV) mini-series starring Marc Singer, Faye Grant, and Jane Badler provides the highest ratings for the network....
May 15th, 1983: Soviet Union under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin becomes a member of the World Bank, amidst criticism of "betrayal of Marxist principles" in Rome, Italy....
May 19th, 1983: United Nations Security Council Resolution #530 condemns Honduran forces in Nicaragua, sparking international attention in New York City, New York...
June 1, 1983: Amphibious assault vessels Table Mountain and Transvaal are commissioned into the South African Navy.
July 1st, 1983: Soviet Politburo under Premier Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin announces Law on Soviet-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures through TASS in Moscow, sparking economic investment. Also on this day, The HMCS Eagle is commissioned into the Canadian Forces Maritime Command. The 55,000 tons has a crew of 1,520 and an airing of 20 CF-187 Corsair II attack fighters, 18 CF-188 Hornet multirole fighters, 2 CE-2C Hawkeye airborne radar planes, 4 CP-121 Trackers, and 4 CH-124 Sea king helicopters.
3 July 1983: The first sub orbital test flight of a full scale mock up of the Soviet Buran shuttle is tested.
July 4, 1983: The first squadron of British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3 AWACS aircraft is delivered to No. 8 Squadron RAF despite several delays.
July 22nd, 1983: Soviet troops begin their withdrawal from Warsaw, amidst cries of international condemnation for its actions....
23 July 1983: The Royal Space Agency cuts funding for the HOTOL project in favour of its Sea dragon inspired two staged rocket. Alan Bond takes what of his design is not made classified with him hoping to find a private backer for this space plane.
August 13th, 1983: KAL flight 007 is shot at by a missile from a fighter but manages to make an emergency landing at a soviet air base. The Soviets try to cover it up by claiming it was a spy plane. Regardless the west views this as the Soviet military is out of control. Though no life was lost the Soviets still are condemned.
August 21st, 1983: Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. survives an assassination attempt, blamed on "communist guerillas" (actually, government troops) in Manila, Philippines....
August 26th, 1983: Soviet Politburo under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin announces the formation of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Moscow, Stalingrad, Vladivostok, and Minsk in an effort to attract foreign investment....
September 21st, 1983: Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. leads "National Day of Unity" rallies calling for unity amongst the various factions against the Marcos regime....
September 26th, 1983: LT. Col. Stanislav Petrov narrowly avoids sending the world into a nuclear war. His lack of reaction shows the flaws in Soviet early warning systems. Following this Abalkin demanded the systems be investigated for flaws. Though the Soviets cover this up at first Petrov will later be rewarded a medal.
September 30th, 1983: U.S. Defense Department releases a report detailing the threat of "domestic terrorism" reported by U.S. News & World Report...
October 23rd, 1983: The US Marine Barracks in Beirut is attacked by Suicide bombing. 322 are killed 75 are injured. Also on this day, News anchor Jessica Savitch is named chief anchor at NBC-TV in New York City, New York....
October 25th, 1983: The US invades Grenada to kick out the communists that had taken power and protect US citizens at the medical school there.
November 2nd 1983: NATO war game Able Archer 83 commences though theses are just military maneuvers, the Soviets are convinced that NATO forces will attack. The unnerving part is the use of nuclear weapons spies at NATO headquarters have uncovered. Though it is simulated the Soviet do not know that. The Russians go on there highest alert.
November 8th, 1983: Double agent Oleg Gordievsky tells his British handlers that the Russians fear that the war games are a preemptive strike. He is taken seriously as he predicted Abalkin becoming premier.
November 16th, 1983: Soviet Premier Abalkin summons the head of the KGB and the defense minister to his Kremlin office. Though no records of this meeting both men came from the meeting visibly shaken. The KGB head would commit suicide later that day.
November 18th, 1983: Premier Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin shocks the world when he reveals how close the world came to nuclear war. He points the the blame on US President Connally and British Prime Minister Thatcher. He mutters this to an aide afterward. "The wrong man was killed in Dallas."
December 9th, 1983: Scarface starring Nancy Allen and Al Pacino, directed by Brian de Palma, makes its hit debut....
December 15th, 1983: Israeli government officials in Tel Aviv disclose that they have obtained nuclear weapons, sparking international condemnation. Also on this day, Cattle are found mutilated Azerbaijan SSR.
December 19th, 1983: CIA Director William secretly meets with Vietnamese guerillas in Saigon, urging them to spread violence into the People's Republic of China...
January 27th, 1984: Singer Michael Jackson dies after accidentally being set on fire during a Pepsi commercial shoot at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California....
March 5th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses begins using San Francisco, California as the main center of the cocaine trade in North America....
March 10th, 1984: The Soviet Government quietly updates its entire nuclear warning systems. The flaws exposed after a 6 month inquiry are explained from the incident of September 1983. Also on this day, Washington Post reports that the autopsy photos and X-rats from the Jimmy Carter assassination have been donated to the National Archives in Washington D.C.,...
March 14th, 1984: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, is assassinated by members of the Ulster Freeom Fighters (UFF) in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
April 13th, 1984: New York Times reports that the FBI and Secret Service are attempting to recreate the assassination of President Carter, sparking national attention...
April 15, 1984: The HMS Nelson (D111) is launched as the first of the Type 43 multirole destroyers. The Type 43 is 566 feet 7 inches (172.7 meters) in length, 64 feet 4 inches (19.6 meters) wide, 29 feet 10 inches (9.1 meters) tall and 7,570 tons displacement. It is armed with 2 GWS.32 Sea Dart II medium-range twin-arm missile launchers, 3 GWS.25 Sea Wolf short-range missile launchers, 2 4.5"/55-caliber Mark 8 naval guns, 4 Mark 143 Harpoon launchers, 2 Vulcan Phalanx 20mm CIWS systems,
2 GAU-19 12.7mm Miniguns, and 2 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes. The Nelson's sister ships are named HMS Fraser (D112), HMS Anson (D113), HMS Hower (D114), HMS Jellicoe (D115), and HMS Rodney (D116).
April 19th 1984: The documentary the Blood of Vietnam is an expose of the terrible things are there with the guerrilla war against the Chinese. Access to the Vietnamese Guerrillas show the atrocities the Chinese are doing. In the US many people are still mad over Vietnam but this shows many people that some communist nations will attack other communist nations.
May 21st, 1984: President John Connelly calls the Vietnamese forces "Heroes of Freedom" and "Champions of the Free World" during a speech in San Jose, California....
June 4th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses leads a political rally for Adolfo Calero in the Mission District of San Francisco, California....
June 5th, 1984: Saudi Arabia begins arming Iraqi forces against Iran, sparking tensions throughout the Persian Gulf region. Also on this day, "State of Shock" single featuring Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and Michael Jackson is released, becoming one of the best-selling records of the 1980s....
June 19th, 1984: President John Connelly sharply increases covert aid to Vietnamese rebels...
July 14th, 1984: District Attorney Arlo Smith and Angela Alioto launches a case claiming a conspiracy to assassinate President Jimmy Carter, at the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco, California...
August 8, 1984: The HMS Ark Royal (R09) is put into Marconi Marine's Shipbuilding in Glasgow. The British government asks for a copy of the Eagle's rebuild plans from the Canadians who happily send over a copy. Due to a naming conflict, the Invincible-class light carrier Ark Royal (R07) is renamed HMS Implacable (R07).
August 15th, 1984: Fis Declaration; Kurdish PKK guerillas led by Abdullah Öcalan, proclaim national independence for Kurdistan in Fis, Turkey. Also on this day, War Crimes Tribunal at the International Court of Justice at the Hague, Netherlands condemns U.S. military actions into Nicaragua, sparking international attention...
September 5, 1984: The British Ministry of Defense announces a program to modernize the FAA with fixed wing AEW, ASW, and COD as well as carrier capable fighter aircraft.
October 5, 1984: Commander Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space as part of the crew on the space shuttle Challenger during STS-41-G.
October 11th, 1984 : President Connally and former Vice President Mondale hold a televised debate. This is considered the nastiest debate televised as Mondale lost the Vice Presidency to Connally. He does questions Connally's decisions in regards to the situation in Northern Ireland, the U.S./Soviet arms race, and rising gap between rich and poor...
October 12th, 1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is assassinated in Brighton, England by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). MP Michael Heseltine is sworn in as British Prime Minister in Brighton, England, calling out for calm during the crisis...
October 31st, 1984: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi survives an assassination by Sikh guards in New Delhi, India, sparking sectarian violence nationwide...
November 4th, 1984: News anchor Ted Koppel reports on Nightline (ABC-TV) reports that there are flaws in the investigation regarding the 1981 assassination of President Jimmy Carter...
November 6th, 1984: Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) defeats President John Connelly (R-TX) in one of the most divisive elections....
November 11, 1984: With the HMS Ark Royal undergoing an extensive rebuild, the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm begins looking for a fighter to launch off of it.
November 16th, 1984: Missing in Action starring Chuck Norris, written by James Cameron, details a former POW's entry into Vietnam to find his long-lost comrades, makes its hit debut...
November 17th, 1984: Brazilian President João Figueiredo loses re-election-bid to Tancredo Neves, in an election that is monitored by United Nations officials...
November 26th, 1984: Jairo Meneses is arrested for assault and battery during a rally at the University of California at Berkeley....
December 15th, 1984: The Return of Godzilla: brings the monster back onto the big screen. The pot is centered around the return of Godzilla and the the tensions regarding space based weapons (Japan in the film has Amaterasu as Japan's). Godzilla also fights the Super -X a low flying space attack plane.The climax has a Soviet nuclear missile accidentally launch and try to destroy Godzilla but an American anti-missiles system destroys the nuke but accidentally reviving the monster. Godzilla is then lured to a volcano and dropped in. The sub-plot deals with Japan's role in the cold war. Raymond Burr returns to play Steve Martin in the American version of the film. The cold war sub-plot is kept in.
January 20th, 1985: Walter Mondale (D-MN) is sworn in an inaugural ceremony in Washington, wherein he states, "It's morning again in America. Today more men and women will have hope than ever before in our country's history..."
February 7th,1985: President Mondale pressures several states including Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Nevada to pass the ERA. These states have Democratic governors.
March 2nd, 1985: Missing in Action 2: The Revenge starring Chuck Norris, written by James Cameron, details Colonel Braddock and his friends fighting against Chinese forces as they move into Vietnam....
March 12, 1985: The Canadian government recognizes the sovereignty of the Republic of China. The government of the People's Republic of China condemns Canada's recognition of the Republic of China and declares it as inflammatory and an attempt to destabilize the region.
March 17th, 1985: Iraqi forces launch a massive offensive against Iranian occupation forces along the Basra-Baghdad Road....
April 4th, 1985: Jairo Meneses, implicates his uncle Norwin Meneses as one of the heads of the cocaine trade in San Francisco, California, after an arrest in Berkeley, California....
April 12th, 1985: In a bold marketing move, Secret Wars #12 by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck, ends with the Beyonder "recreating the Marvel Universe..."
April 15th, 1985: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) accounts for 92% of all erectile-dysfunction drugs according to WHO/CDC officials in Atlanta, Georgia....
April 17th, 1985: Elvis Presley appears on Saturday Night Live (NBC-TV), performing several of his hits in New York City, New York....
April 21st, 1985: Brazilian President Tancredo Neves suffers a minor heart attack, and is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil....
May 10th, 1985: United Nations Security Council Resolution #562 condemns international military intervention in Nicaragua, sparking international attention in New York City, New York...
May 22nd, 1985 : Rambo: First Blood, Part II premiers. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and a young Micheele Yeoh in her international debut. It deals with Rambo having to help receive help from the same people he fought against in Vietnam to get the MIA's out of a Chinese camp. It is a blockbuster.
July 13th, 1985: Singers Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson perform "State of Shock" at Live Aid in London, England....
July 21st, 1985: New Universe mini-series by Jim Shooter and Al Milgram "re-imagines" the Marvel Universe with events starting in 1985...
August 17th, 1985: Shah Reza Pahlavi bans all elections nationwide, citing the military "state of emergency"...
September 1st, 1985: "Class of '55" featuring Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis makes its hit debut; Elvis Presley settles his feud with Jerry Lee Lewis in Memphis...
September 10, 1985: The Canadian government approves of the construction of seven Polar 8-class heavy icebreakers. The Canadian Coast Guard gets four of them while the Maritime Command receives three of them.
October 6th, 1985: Toyota Motor Company unveils the "Aqua" Zero Emissions Vehicle in Tokyo, Japan, sparking fears that Japan is beating the United States in technology....
October 30th, 1985: Sylvia Seegrist of Springfield, Pennsylvania goes on a killing spee, leaving 3 dead and 7 injured after taking the narcotic "Draugr"...
November 1, 1985: HMS Implacable (R07) is commissioned into the Royal Navy.
5th November 1985: After several years of research and investment, the very first launch of a Sea Dragon Rocket takes place. The "ER 1" is launched into lower orbit. A simple satellite which simply relays a repeating message of "God save the queen" orbits the earth for several months before falling back to earth and landing in the atlantic. British enthusiasm for the project skyrockets.
November 14, 1985: The Australian government makes a request to the United States regarding the cost of purchasing one of the decommissioned Essex-class aircraft carriers from them. The United States government surprises them by offering to give them one for free if the Australian paid its operation and refit costs.
November 19th 1985: Us President Mondale and Soviet Premier Abalkin have their first summit in Geneva Switzerland. Both men take an instant liking to each other. Though both want to reduce their nuclear stockpiles, they know they both have opposition at home. Mondale with in Congress and Abalkin with in the Communist party.
December 11th, 1985: Worried that Chinese PLA forces are winning the conflict, President Walter Mondale approves the sale of Stinger missiles to Vietnamese guerillas...
December 20th, 1985: San Francisco Chronicle reporters Brian Barger and Robert Parry, expose the fact that the regime of General Edmundo Meneses is trafficking cocaine and running guns through San Francisco...
December 26th, 1985: Whitley Streiber reports being abducted by aliens, while in Catskills, New York, sparking international attention and concern...
December 27th, 1985: Primatologist Dian Fossey holds a press conference in Cambridge, England accusing the government in Kigali, Rwanda of attempting to assassinate her....
January 24, 1986: The United States announces that the ex-USS Oriskany is to be given to Australia. Oriskany leaves Bremerton, Washington, under town on February 20, 1986, arriving in Melbourne, Australia, on May 10. Like the Canadian and British fleet carriers, a plan to rebuild it was drawn up. The carrier is dry-docked at Williamstown, Victoria, on June 18, 1986, for rebuild.
February 15, 1986: Supermarine Aerospace unveils the Supermarine Lancaster II bomber to the MInistry of Defense as a replacement for the retired Avro Vulcan bomber. Many people note that the Lancaster II looks similar to the B-1 Lancer and Tu-160 Blackjack bombers.
February 28th, 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme survives an asssassination attempt in Stockholm, Sweden....
March 15th, 1986: Author Whitley Streiber predicts,"the dangers of upcoming ozone holes that would create measurable crop damage in the 1990-93 period..." during an environmental rally in New York City, New York...
April 23, 1986: The Durance-class auxiliary vessel HMAS Success (OR-304) is commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy. It is the first of three Durance-class supply vessels to be built for the RAN. The Success' sister ships are named HMAS Victory (OR-305) and HMAS Challenge (OR-306).
April 26, 1986: Due to the unqualified staff having been fired in January, the Chernobyl disaster in Pripyat, Ukraine SSR is averted.
May 19th, 1986: Riots erupt in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after Brazilian Air Force officials report sighting UFOs, over major cities, sparking international attention and concern....
June 22, 1986: The Hand of God goal is disallowed by Ali Bin Nasser, after consulting with his assistant. The second Maradona Goal still falls, as does the English goal. This game goes into penalty shootout too. Because Maradona was already sent off for playing hand in the English box (113.) and Argentina was punished with a penalty, England wins 1-2 a.e.t. (Maradona, Lineker 80., Lineker 114.). England stands in the semi. This is easily won against Belgium (3-0, Lineker, Steven, Hodge). On June 29, England loses against Germany, 8-9 in penalty shootout.
July 5, 1986: The British government orders 160 Supermarine Lancaster II bombers to replace the recently retired 136 Avro Vulcan bombers. The first bomber will role off the production line in May 1988.
August 20th, 1986: Patrick Sherrill of Edmond, Oklahoma goes on a violent killing spree after ingesting "Draugr" killing 14 people, leaving 6 injured...
August 23rd, 1986: Adam's Apple (ABC-TV) starring John Cunningham, Kathleen Doyle, and Polly Draper, makes its hit series debut....
September 8th, 1986: 48 Hours (CBS-TV) led by reporter Charlie Rose, reports on the "Draugr Epidemic", warning of the danger of the violent behavior caused by the drug..
September 12th, 1986: Whitley Streiber holds his first press conference regading his alleged UFO abduction experiences in New York City, New York...
October 4th, 1986: CBS-TV news anchor Dan Rather is killed by William Tager, while constantly repeating "What's the frequency Kenneth?" in New York City, New York...
October 11th, 1986: President Mondale announces to keep to his promise to freeze the manufacture and testing of nuclear weapons. The Republicans and Southern Democrats accuse him of capitulating to the Soviets.
October 25, 1986: The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
November 4th, 1986: Amidst support from President Walter Mondale and Lyndon La Rouche (D-NH), California passes Proposition #64, requiring government testing of all persons suspected of AIDS/HIV infection to be tested and isolated...
November 25, 1986: The Canadian government announces that a modified version of the Spruance-class will be used as Canada's new destroyer design. The modified Spru-cans are named the River-class with the HMCS Yukon River (DDG-284). The class will have a run of twelve vessels and all of them will be built in Canadian shipyards.
December 6th, 1986: U.S. Consul-General Michael Springmann warns of "unqualified applicants" receiving c. 100 visas, approved by the U.S. State Department.....
December 14th, 1986: Followers of religious leader Eduard Albert Meier proclaim to have scientific evidence of psychic contact with extraterrestrials during a press conference in Los Angeles, California....
January 21st, 1987: San Francisco Chronicle reveals in an interview with Dennis Ainsworth that Nicaraguan government is supporting the trafficking of cocaine through northern California...
February 16th, 1987: Soviet Premier Leonid Abalkin states, "In spite of all the differences between us, we must all learn to preserve our one big family of humanity. At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion..."
February 25th, 1987: Communion by Whitley Streiber is published, proclaiming his alien abduction experiences, and his alleged conversations with his abductors, becoming a major bestseller....
February 28th, 1987: Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) states that his office was not allowed to see the photographs or the X-rays to the Carter assassination autopsy, fueling conspiracy theories....
March 14th, 1987: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise by Hiroyuki Yamaga makes its hit debut, detailing a hypothetical scenario behind the "Wow! Signal" with another world's race into space,...
March 24th, 1987: Wall Street Riots; AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power clashes with investors and police in New York City , New York over a perceived mishandling of hte AIDS/HIV crisis...
April 1st, 1987: "My Name is Luka" by Suzanne Vega is released. Rolling Stone magazine starts the rumor that the song is based on the relationship between Vega and Luka...
April 4th, 1987: A village is found slaughter in the Amazon of Brazil. The way villages are killed is very odd, organ missing, burned, heart attacks confuses the Brazilian Military police.
April 5th 1987: In many Brasilian cities there is panic after a TV report about the incident in the Amazon. NBC airs the report unedited at the Nightly News, causing unrest among the general public.... ABC and CBS decided not the show the report.
May 21, 1987: The first Polar 8-class icebreaker is launched. It is named the CCGS John G. Diefenbaker. The subsequent Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers are named the Percy W. Nelles, Billy Bishop, and Marc Garneau. The Maritime Command's icebreakers are named the Frobisher Bay, Rankin Inlet, and Northwest Passage.
June 1st, 1987: ACT UP! launches a sit-in protest outside the White House in Washington D.C., local police officials where masks and rubber gloves out of fear of possible contamination...
June 4th, 1987: Northwest, Pan Am, and TWA announce that they will not accept passengers with AIDS/HIV during a press conference in New York City, New York...
July 6th, 1987: Singer Madonna Ciccone is hospitalized after an a domestic violence dispute with husband Sean Penn at their home in New York City, New York...
July 31st, 1987: Mecca Incident; Islamic fundamentalist Mehdi Hashemi detonates a bomb at the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, killing 14 people...
August 9, 1987: The Stendal NPP is completed and operational.
August 17th, 1987: Hess Scandal; Rudolf Hess reveals to Der Spiegel that he flew into Great Britain in an effort to meet with conservative leaders to arrange a peace agreement in 1941....
August 19th, 1987: Michael Robert Ryan kills 16 people, and injures 15 people in Hungerford, England after ingesting the drug "Draugr"....
August 22nd, 1987: Filipino chain restaurant "Inay" is established in Berkeley, California, speading in popularity due to the student population...
August 27th, 1987: Larry Kramer launches the first major protests against Proposition 64 in San Francisco, California...
September 3rd, 1987: Act II (NBC-TV) starring Sandy Duncan, Charles Frank, and Hayley Carr, makes its hit series debut....
September 8th, 1987: Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping announces the withdrawal of Chinese PLA troops from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure...
September 9th, 1987: President Walter Mondale establishes the AIDS/HIV Commission in Washington D.C., amidst great controversy....
3rd October 1987: In the Atlantic Ocean, a highly telivised and publicised launch is about to take place. After several successful unmanned test launches and satellites are achieved, the first independent British astronaught launches into orbit. From a launch platform far out to sea, with a Royal naval aircraft carrier providing protection, an astronaught by the name of Terry Deary is launched into low earth orbit by a Sea Dragon launcher, along with several Satellites. After a few hours orbiting the earth, he lands in the pacific and is picked up by a Royal Navy frigate. Britain has finally launched a man into space independently.
October 19, 1987: HMS Indomitable (R08) is commissioned into the Royal Navy.
October 21st 1987: The British Isles and The Netherlands are hit by a hurricane-force storm. Altough no-one thinks of alien interference, proof of such interference is found by the Soviets. The airing of a Soviet TV report ,about Alien Interference on our climate, in the Netherlands chauses a public outcry. The BBC and ITN decide not to show the Report.
October 31st 1987: NASA claims that there was no Alien intervention on our climate. But there are still doubts
November 6th, 1987: "Luka", the first album by Luke Luka, makes its hit debut, with hit singles "The Girl Next Door", "It Worries Me" and "I Can Read Between the Lines"...
November 11th, 1987- November 11th, 1990: Gulf Breeze Panic; Residents of Gulf Breeze to Pensacola, Florida, report seeing UFOs, sparking international attention and concern...
15 November 1987: Lifted into orbit by the Energia booster rocket, soviet shuttle Buran completes its first mission two unmanned orbits of the earth before successfuly landing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
November 28th, 1987: Nuclear Liberation Front detonates a pipe bomb outside the entrance of Sandia National Nuclear Laboratories in Livermore,California killing 8 people...
December 1st, 1987: Ilkley Moor Panic; panic erupts in Ilkley Moor, Yorkshire, England, amidst reports of an alien landing, sparking international attention...
December 31st, 1987: United Nations Security Council passes Resoution#622 authorizing the deployment of United Nations peace-keeping forces into Vietnam in an effort to monitor the Chinese withdrawal....
January 13th, 1988: General Hospital Riots; Riots erupt at San Francisco General Hospital after health officials report drug shortages for AIDS/HIV treatment and call for "home treatment"...
January 22nd, 1988: Braddock: Missing in Action 3 starring Chuck Norris features Colonel Braddock and his team of soldiers returning to free Amerasian children in Vietnam from execution by Chinese PLA forces...
February 12, 1988: During a transit through Soviet territorial waters, the USS Yorktown (CG-48) is rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy.
February 15th- May 16th, 1988: Chinese troops begin their withdrawal from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure,....
February 16th, 1988: CIA officials continue to aid Vietnamese guerillas despite the withdrawal of Chinese troops from the region....
March 29th, 1988: Dulcie September, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), exposes the arms trade between France and South Africa, during a press conference in Paris, France...
April 12th, 1988: Yū Kikumura bombs the Veteran's Administration office during a military recruitment drive in New York city, New York, killing 8 people...
April 16th, 1988: "Apex Predator" the first album of the Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Now I've Got A Witness", "Honest I Do" and "If You Try"...
April 29th, 1988: National Out Cry!; LGBT communities launch protests in major cities across the United States against the Mondale administration...
April 30, 1988: The HMCS Halifax (FFH-330), the first of eighteen Halifax-class frigates is launched from Saint John Shipbuilding. It is 144 meters in length, 16.5 meters wide, and 5 meters tall. The Halifax is armed with a 5"/62-caliber naval gun (designed by Space Research Corporation), a 32-cell Mark 41 VLS, 4 8-cell Mark 48 VLS, and a pair of 20mm Phalanx Block 1B CIWS.
May 7th, 1988: Vito Russo sparks riots in San Francisco, California in response to federal efforts at registration of suspected "AIDS/HIV carriers"...
May 25th, 1988: Rambo III Premiers. It stars Stallone, Crenna, and Yeah once again. It is about the Vietnamese resitance to the Chinese and Rambo helping the Vietnamese attack the Chinese. It is a blockbuster but not as popular as the second film.
May 30th, 1988: "Apex Predator: Ireland's Most Wanted" the U.S. released album of the Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut...
August 15, 1988: The Canadian Forces goes with a modified design based on the Trafalgar-class nuclear attack submarine. Named the Columbia-class, the sub is 300 feet long, has a displacement of 5,820 tons, is armed with 6 533mm torpedo tubes, and an 8-cell Mark 36 VLS. It is also equipped with a Thales Type 2040 Sonar, and powered by a modified CANDU reactor. The Canadian government announces that six subs will be built.
August 15th- November 15th, 1988: Second phase of withdrawal of Chinese PLA forces from Vietnam is initiated, amidst heavy international pressure...
August 22nd, 1988: "Inay's" proudly announces that it will be offering health benefits as a "employee-owned company" in Berkeley, California..
August 24th, 1988: ACT-UP! detonates a pipe bomb outside FDA offices in San Francisco, condemning the drug approval process...
September 11th, 1988: Silver Tower novel by Tom Clancy, a sequel to Cardinal in the Kremlin proposes a space-station defense network which would be used as a "last line of defense" in orbit against a possible Soviet attack...
September 19th, 1988: Israeli officials announce the successful launch of the Ofeq-1 satellite, fueling sectarian and political unrest within the Middle East, at Palmachim, Israel,....
1 October 1988: Soviet Shuttle Ptichka completes an unmanned first flight remaining in orbit for 36 hours.
October 11th, 1988: ACT UP! shuts down the offices of the Food & Drug Administration with a sit-in in Washington D.C., demanding greater action regarding the AIDS crisis...
November 8th, 1988: Governor George H.W. Bush (R-TX) defeats President Walter Mondale (D-MN) in a close election battle...
December 21st, 1988: Man in Manley, Iowa is attacked by rabbits, he is taken to a hospital in Mason City Iowa.
January 15th, 1989: "Apex Predator 2.0" album by Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut with hit singles "What a Shame", "Grown Up Wrong" and "Off the Hook"...
January 20th, 1989: George H.W. Bush is sworn in an inaugural ceremony in Washington D.C., proclaiming," A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken..."
February 8th, 1989: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses is arrested by a joint task force of DEA and FBI agents in San Francisco....
March 2nd, 1989: Liviu Cornel Babeş leads pro-democracy rallies in Bucharest, Romania, in defiance of Communist authorities. Also on this day, Vytautas Vičiulis leads pro-democracy rallies in Vilnius, Lithuania SSR calling for independence...
March 11th, 1989: United Nations Security Council passes Resolution #647 extending the presence of United Nations peace-keeping forces in Vietnam an additional 6 months...
March 13, 1989: A solar coronal mass ejection causes a blackout across all of Quebec, as it hits the Hydro-Québec power grid, affecting over 6 million people for more than 9 hours.
March 28th, 1989: New York Riots; 380 LGBT people are arrested in Greenwhich Village, New York City, New York in protest to the lack of funding for AIDS/HIV research....
March 29, 1989: The HMS Ark Royal (R09) is recommissioned into the Royal Navy with the same advanced features as its sister ship, the Eagle. Also on this day, The British fleet carrier HMS Ark Royal is reccommisioned into the Royal Navy after spending five years undergoing a major rebuild. The Ark Royal has an airwing composed of 20 F/A-18 Hornets, 16 Supermarine Rapiers (Based on the Vickers Type 583), 2 Hawker Siddeley Sentinel AEW aircraft, 4 Lockheed S-3RN Viking ASW aircraft, 2 Grumman C-1 Trader COD aircraft, 4 AW101 Merlin utility helicopters.
April 1st, 1989: Billionaire Richard Branson calls upon the British House of Commons to "lead the way", during a rally in Hyde Park in London, England...
April 9th, 1989: Author Whitley Streiber predicts, "giant boulders sailing off the edge of the moon along with a realization that the moon's exploding means, "Oh, this is the end of the world."..." during a television interview in New York City, New York....
April 12th, 1989: Soviet Politburo under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin establishes the General Principles of Civil Law, establishing the legal groundwork for a market economy in Moscow....
April 14th, 1989: "Giant Steps" album by Luke Luka is released, featuring the hit singles "I See Your Face Before Me", "Deep In a Dream" and "I'll Never Be The Same"....
May 26th, 1989: Indian Remote Sensing Satellite, IRS-P4 (OCEANSAT), launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C2) along with Korean KITSAT-3 and German DLR-TUBSAT from Sriharikota, India...
June 1st, 1989: Day of the Eagle novel by Tom Clancy, proposes trans-orbital SST bombers, becoming a major bestseller....
June 23, 1989: The HMS Ark Royal (R09) sets sail to Halifax, Nova Scotia to participate in naval war games exercises with Americans and Canadians.
July 12th, 1989: Christian Dornier kills 14 people in Luxiol, France after ingesting "Draugr", sparking concern about European laws regarding narcotics...
July 18th, 1989: Actress Rebecca Schaeffer narrowly survives being shot by a celebrity stalker in Hollywood, California while on the set of My Sister Sam (CBS-TV),...
July 25, 1989: Canadian Defense Minister Bill McKnight announces the return of pre-unification insignia, names, ranks, traditions, and uniforms to the Canadian Forces.
July 27th, 1989: United Nations Security Council Resolution #637 establishes peace talks regarding Nicaragua, with the Soviet Union participating on behalf of the Communist government in Nicaragua...
August 23rd, 1989: Soviet troops are deployed in the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, amidst international condemnation...
August 30th, 1989: Israel begins deporting refugees back to Palestine, citing them as a "threat to national security..."
September 3rd, 1989: "Kathy Konners Sings" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut, introducing Christian music to a mainstream audience with hit singles "I Know It", "Spiritual Attraction" and "Think of Me"....
September 24th, 1989: "I'm Alright" album by the Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut with hit singles "I'm Alright" and "One More Try"...
25 September 1989: A full scale mock up of the Soviet Buran shuttle is put on display at the Paris air show.
October 3rd, 1989: The Space Moose comic strip makes its infamous debut. The strip follows the adventures of Space Moose, an anthropomorphic, nihilistic moose with asymmetrical eyes and a Star Trek uniform, as he violates every behavioral norm and societal taboo he can find. His roommates Marlo Smefner, Billy the Bionic Badger, and Bald Dwarf are often the accomplices or victims of his actions...
October 18th 1989: the film Battleship Yamato priemers to huge Japanese popularity. It gets a small release in the US and Europe the following year.
October 28th, 1989: Battle of the Bay; San Francisco Giants led by Matt Williams win the World Series in Game 6 against the Oakland A's, 4-0; Williams dedicates the win to the victims of the Loma Prieta earthquake...
November 10th, 1989: Communion based on the book by Whitley Streiber, starring Christopher Walken, with music by Eric Clapton, makes its hit film debut,...
November 11, 1989: The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
November 12th, 1989: Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu dismisses American and Soviet efforts at SETI research stating, during an interview in Tokyo saying, "Japan does not have such organizations at a government level... If young people display a serious interest in similar phenomena, we should perhaps think of forming a extraterrestrial data collecting group under the auspices of the Ministry of Education..."
November 20th, 1989: Conserative MP Sir Anthony Meyer calls for a "no confidence" vote against Prime Minister Michael Heseltine in London, England...
December 5th, 1989: MP Sir Anthony Meyer becomes British Prime Minister after a "no confidence" vote against Prime Minister Michael Heseltine in London, England..
December 8th, 1989: NASA Galileo mission under the command of Kenneth D. Cameron and James D. Halsell does a lunar flyby, assuring the American people that they will be returning to the lunar surface....
December 16th, 1989: Godzilla Vs. Biolante: A Scientist Driven mad by the the death of his daughter in a terrorist attack in the middle east tries to create a plant which can hold her soul. He creates a monster called Duetalios. But Godzilla shows up defeats and eats it. The scientist uses Godzilla DNA in the monster. The monster Biolante shows up but Godzilla defeats it in the end. The film has a twist ending, the DNA that scienst had is gathered by the government and will be used in a later film as a weapon. This film is shown in a small amount of US theaters but does have a PG-13 rating due to the eating scene.
December 25th, 1989: ACT UP! detonates a pipe bomb outside the New York Times in New York City, New York killing 3 people, sparking national attention...
January 8th, 1990: "Love Locked Out" album by Luke Luka makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Love Locked Out", "With Every Breath I Take", and "If It's The Last Thing I Do". Also on this day, Religious leader Eduard Albert Meier proclaims extraterrestrial messages of world peace, with followers spreading across the world from Los Angeles, California....
February 20th, 1990: By now, Britain is launching several Sea Dragon rockets per year. The cheap cost of the rocket and huge size of it has allowed Britain to be the favourite launcher of satellites, and a profit is actually being made. The Government announces plans to construct a British Space station from which Britain can seriously expand it's programme. Work on modules for the King George V space station begin, with plans to send them up by the middle of 1991.
March 15, 1990: The RCSA and Bombardier unveil the new Odyssey rocket.
March 19th, 1990: Japanese NASDA Hagoromo Project does a lunar flyby, sparking international tensions between the United States and Japan, as both nations proclaim efforts to return mankind to the lunar surface....
March 20th, 1990: Singer Gloria Estefan is killed in bus accident outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania while on her "Cuts Both Ways" tour...
March 21st, 1990: South Africa sends troops into Windhoek, Namibia, in an effort to prevent a declaration of independence...
March 27th, 1990: United Nations Security Council #650 establishes a ceasefire regarding the situation in Nicaragua, El Salvador, et al.,...
April 15th, 1990: "Doncha Bother Me" album by Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut with hit singles "It's Not Easy", "Flight 505" and "Lady Jane"...
April 21, 1990: A routine check of the telescope reveals that the primary mirror had been ground the wrong shape. The Hubble Space Telescope spends the next two months receiving a new primary mirror as well as some minor software upgrades.
April 23rd, 1990: ACT UP! extremists detonates a pipe bomb at Cook County AIDS/HIV Clinic in Chicago, Illinois killing 3 people in the procss...
April 26th, 1990: When asked about his thoughts on UFOs, Soviet Premier Leonid Abalkin states,"I know that we have organizations which study this problem..." during a press conference in Sverdlodsk, USSR; Also on this day, The USS Coral Sea (CV-43) is decommissioned due to age having been launched in April 1946.
May 4th, 1990: Soviet Premier Leonid Abalkin warns Politburo members, "The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously..." in Moscow, USSR...; Also on this same day, Soviet troops launch a brutal crackdown on Latvian nationalists in Riga, Latvia SSR, amidst international condemnation...
May 9th, 1990: Rimantas Daugintis leads rallies in Vilnius, Lithuania SSR demanding independence from the Soviet Union...
May 12th 1990: In light of the growing dente with the West and the painfully high cost of maintaining its military at the current size the Soviet Union announces that it will be cutting back its armed forces 'in the spirit of international good will'. The cutbacks are scheduled to begin in 1991 with announcements to be released regarding what the cutbacks entail released at a 'suitable date'.
May 16th, 1990: At several locations around the world; Alberta, New Mexico, France, Kazakhstan, China, Australia and other locations, UFOs are sighted. Following this livestock are found in nearby areas to UFO sightings mutilated. Some are still alive when found.
June 22, 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched after a two month delay.
June 28th, 1990: "No One Ever Tells You" album by Luke Luka flops, despite heavy promotion....
July 1, 1990: Cameroon wins against England. The goal by Ekeke is scored, but Edgardo Cosendal Mendez overlooks the English foul in the 83rd minute and awards no penalty, but a free kick. But Cameroon then loses in the Semifinal against Germany. Nevertheless, all of Sub-Saharan africa celebrates and Fifa decides to implement the 32-team format for the World cup 1994 already.
July 20th, 1990: The Bakery (ABC-TV) starring David Dukes, Kate McNeil and Cleavant Derricks, makes its hit series debut...
July 27th, 1990: Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr overthrows the governments of Trinidad and Tobago in a military coup, sparking fears of an Islamic fundamentalist state within the Western Hemisphere...
August 17th, 1990: Croatian Uprising; Croatian nationalists launch an armed insurrection led by Franjo Tudman in Belgrade, Yugoslavia....
August 20 1990: the Prime Minister of Canada Preston Manning orders the Army to assault Kanesatake during a protest over a golf course close to 120 Mohawk warriors and 80 Canadian soldiers are killed...
September 1st, 1990: "Mistletoe & Holly" the Christmas album by Luke Luka receives moderate sales, but sparks concerns over whether or not Luka will be able to make another hit record...
September 12, 1990: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for the reunification of Germany.
September 15th 1990 The TV series Voltron is bought for syndication On American TV for FOX Saturday morning Cartoons. The series will bring the interest of mecha to a young audience.
September 18th 1990: The Soviet military cutbacks are finally announced along with the plans for helping those affected by the reductions. The reductions make sense, mostly older equipment is to be scrapped or sold. The entire MiG-21 fleet will be grounded and deleted apart from trainer aircraft, along with the MiG-23, MiG-27 and all current SU-17s and 22s.
The soviet surface fleet will be retiring all of its old destroyers and Frigates leaving the Udaloy and Sovremenny class Destroyers as the main combattants. The older cruisers will also be deleted, leaving the Kara and Slava classes as the soviets main cruisers. The total cutbacks will include 119 destroyers, 20 cruisers 94 corvettes, 2 helicopter carriers, 37 Nuclear attack subs, 20 Nuclear missile attack subs, 38 diesel attack subs and perhaps most significantly 22 SSBN ballistic missile subs. This total does not include amphibious assault ships and many smaller support vessels.
With the current fleet the only active Diesel boats will be the successful 'Kilo' Class whilst the oldest SSN will be the 'Victor III' whilst the new Akula will remain in production for both the Northern fleet and Pacific Fleet.
The army will loose several catagory B and C divisions with some A Divisions being relegated to catagory B as well as the older and more obsolete equipment being scrapped or sold. The massed T-55's and T-62s of the Soviet army are all to be decomissioned or sold and replaced with the current T-72, the unsuccessful T-64 is to be scrapped having never been a satisfactory machine whilst the T-80 will remain in production with improvements to both T-72 and 80 being developed.
For those affected by the cutbacks the Soviets have promised aid, re-training and assistance in finding new jobs, whilst the Soviet Military will become a more professional one, relying less on conscripts and on full time recruits. It is belived that this plan will take at least 10 years but will save billions of rubles and form a stronger, if smaller military.
September 20th 1990: The Western reaction to the Soviet's proposed military cutbacks is cautious but welcome, prompting some opposition party members to voice ideas about cutbacks for their armed forces to save money as well.
September 27, 1990: In response to the reduction in military forces, the United States government announces that it will be making similar cutbacks to its armed forces. For the navy, 21 cruisers, 51 destroyers, 62 frigates 94 submarines will be decommissioned by 2005. The carrier fleet will also be reduced from seventeen carriers to twelve carriers. The Iowa class battleships will also be decommissioned and placed in reserve.
October 24th, 1990: Israel threatens to walk out of the United Nations General Assembly, despite U.S. efforts, during a session in New York City, New York...
November 1st, 1990: Soviet Politburo under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin passes a resolution stating that it recognizes "the private sector as a necessary supplement to the state sector..." in Moscow....
November 11, 1990: The HMAS Australia (R22), the former USS Oriskany (CV-34), is launched from Williamstown, Victoria. It will be commissioned late next year.
November 12th, 1990: "Touched By God" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut with hit singles "Over and Over", "Stay" and "Pretender"....
November 18th 1990: The serial House of Cards premieres. It is about a fictional Chief whip Francis Urquhart in the Conservative party who blackmails and even murders his way into Number 10.
November 20th, 1990: Vatican officials release a statement, more than 13 years after the intiial signal, saying,"Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela..."
November 21st, 1990: Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger breaks up with model Jerry Hall, sparking tabloid headlines across the globe in London, England...
November 28th, 1990: MP Neil Kinnock, Labor Party, is elected British Prime Minister in a tight and divisive race....
2 December 1990: Shuttle Ptichka begins a second unmanned second flight, the mission lasts 8 days including orbital manoeuvre's and docking with the Mir space station. at the station the crew transfer to the shuttle conducting tests of its systems, a problems with one of these system cancel a planed docking with a Soyuz crew transport, the shuttle cancelling its mission early unmanned safely returns to Earth.
December 3rd, 1990: "Carapintada" members of the army led by Mohamed Alí Seineldín overthrow the government in Buenos Aires, Argentina in a military coup....
December 7, 1990: The HMS Upholder (S40) is commissioned into the Royal Navy as the first of six Upholder class diesel-electric patrol submarines. It's sister ships will be named Unseen, Ursula, Unicorn, Ulysses, and Ultimatum.
January 8th, 1991: "Around the World" album by Luke Luka, makes its hit debut with hit singles "London by Night" and "Travellin' With You"...
January 21, 1991: The Soviet aircraft aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov (113) is commissioned into the Soviet Navy.
January 27th, 1991: "My Obsession" album by Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut with hit singles "My Obsession", "All Sold Out", and "Complicated"
February 13th, 1991: GM and Chrysler sue the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in San Francisco, California; President George H.W. Bush joins in the suit against the agency....
March 5th, 1991: Iraqi Civil War; Nouri al-Maliki leads a Shi'a rebellion against the Iraqi government, sparking a sectarian civil war in Karbala....
March 29th, 1991: Into the Groove starring Alyssa Milano and Kathy Konners, makes its hit debut, debuting several songs from Konners album....
April 23, 1991: The USAF announces that the Northrop-McDonnell Douglas YF-23 with the General Electric F120 turbofans as the winner of the Advanced Tactical Fighter program.
May 6th 1991: The Kashin class Destroyer Sderzhanny is decomissioned and work immediately begins on stripping and scrapping the ship.
May 18th, 1991: Republic of Somaliland led by Ahmed Mohamed Gulaid, announce their secession from Somalia in Sergeisa, Somalia...
Late 1991 Bill Clinton, Mario Cuomo, Ann Richards, Douglas Wilder, Tom Harkin Jerry Brown, and Paul Tsongas announce their candidacy for the presidency for the democratic party.
3 June 1991: Shuttle Buran conducts its second unmanned flight lasting 16 days were it successfully docked with a a Soyuz crew transport. Also on this day, Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flows.
June 11, 1991: The Progressive Conservative, Liberal, and New Democrat Parties bring a motion of no confidence in regards to Preston Manning's disastrous handling of the protests at Kanesatake. During the 1991 Canadian federal election, the New Democrat Party wins 139 seats, the PCs win 102 seats, the Liberals win 38 seats, Bloq Quebecois wins 9 seats, and Reform loses all but 7 seats. Ed Broadbent becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
June 15, 1991: In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll tops 800.
June 19th, 1991: Bhaskara-II is sucessfully launched fom Sriharikota, India, as the second geo-stationary communications satellite...
June 28th, 1991: National radio personality Stanton Friedman, "For the People", proclaims "an international announcement. They will show pictures. I think they will clearly establish that we are dealing with Alien visitors and I think they will convene an international conference of religious, economic, and political leaders..."
July 9th 1991: Gundam Z Priemieres on Cartoon Network thought the show is 5 years old the network wants to buy more Gundam for broadcast due to popularity.
August 17th, 1991: Acting Sheriff (CBS-TV) starring Robert Goulet, John Putch, and Hillary B. Smith, makes its hit debut....
September 9th, 1991: FOX News (FOX-TV) hosted by Maury Povich makes its hit television debut in New York City, New York, amidst controversy over its conservative slant...
September 11th, 1991: "Only The Lonely" album by Luke Luka is released, with hit singles "It's A Lonesome Old Town" and "Slep Warm Tonight"...
September 25, 1991: In the Salvadoran Civil War, representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front reach an agreement with President of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani setting the stage for ending over 11 years of civil war.
September 27, 1991: President Bush announces unilateral reductions in short-range nuclear weapons and calls off 24-hour alerts for long-range bombers. The Soviet Union responds with similar unilateral reductions on October 5.
October 5th, 1991: A man in Oregon is found severely injured on a county road. The man later claims he was attacked by a Sasquatch. The police believe it was a bear but the claw marks are inconsistent with a bear's...
October 16th, 1991: George Pierre Hennard kills 23 people in Killeen, Texas after ingesting "Draugr", sparking national debate as to gun laws in the "Lone Star State"...
October 22nd, 1991: PSLV-C3 successfully launches three satellites -- Technology Experiment Satellite (TES) of ISRO, BIRD of Germany and PROBA of Belgium, establishing India as a commercial space launch center...
November 16th, 1991: Soviet troops launch a brutal crackdown on Estonian nationalists in Tallinn, Estonia SSR...
November 28th, 1991: National Geographic mission to the lunar surface crashes onto the lunbar surface, killing 8 people near the Amundsen Crater....
December 1st, 1991: The Colby Christ Meets Space Moose comic book makes its infamous debut, proving to be even more of a cult hit...
December 8, 1991: Defense Minister Bill McKnight announces the reactivation of the Airborne Regiment, Canadian SAS, Devil's Brigade, Joint Task Force Two, the Royal Rifles of Canada, and Winnipeg Grenadiers on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong. Also on this day, "Sing This All Together" album by Irish band Apex Predator flops, despite heavy promotion and advertising...
December 12th, 1991: Outbreak of AIDS/HIV is blamed on widespread use of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) in Los Angeles, California...
December 14th, 1991: Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah: Using time travel and inforamation from and future space signals, time travelers from the future go back in time and prevent Godzilla's creation to "help" Japan. In fact they create thier own monster to prevent Japan from becoming a super power.The film has Godzilla being created anyway. Godzilla defeats King Ghidorah and rampages toward Tokyo. Mecha-King Ghidorah fights godzilla but is destroyed over the ocean. A massive controversy arises though when it shows Godzilla as a dinosaur killing American soldiers in WII. This makes the film interesting enough to be released in theaters in the US.
December 22nd, 1991-January 6th, 1992: Tblisi Uprising; Zviad Gamsakhurdia leads an armed insurrection against the Soviet Union in Tblisi, Georgia SSR....
December 25th 1991: After rather lengthy delays, a Sea Dragon rocket finally launches the King George V station into orbit. Not yet habitable, it will require several missions to get up and running, but the currently unused astronaught corp of the space agency look forward to the challenge.
January 23rd, 1992: "The Last Dance" album by Luke Luka, fuelling speculation that this will be his final album, with hit singles "The Last Dance", "Nothing in Common", and "Same Old Song & Dance"...
January 24th, 1992: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) is blamed for a rise in AIDS/HIV infections worldwide, according to the WHO/CDC in Atlanta, Georgia...
Febuary 7th 1992: With Cuomo the front runner he loses the Iowa Democratic Caucus to Tom Harkin of Iowa but is second place, Clinton is third, and Richards is fourth.
February 11th, 1992: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) is approved for over the counter sales by the Ministry of Health in London, England...
February 18th 1992: Paul Tsongas wins New Hampshire Democratic Primary. Seconded by Cuomo again and Clinton in solid third.
February 29th 1992: Bill Clinton is implicated in a sex Scandal with Gennifer Flowers, she claims the Arkansas governor is the father of her unborn baby. Clinton denies this.
March 9th, 1992: the day before Super-Tuesday Hustler Breaks the scandal that Bill Clinton was filmed having sex with Flowers and it cannot be denied.
March 10th 1992: Super Tuesday Mario Cuomo wins and is considered the likely nominee for president from the Democratic Party.
March 11th 1992 Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas, Doug Wilder, and Ann Richards Drop out of the race. Only Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown are still going. But Clinton is in a scandal that will cost him the primaries.
March 17th, 1992: Suharto government calls upon President George H.W. Bush to back Indonesian government against alleged "Communist guerillas"...
March 22, 1992: The second Admiral Kuznetsov-class carrier, the Varyag, is commissioned into the Soviet Navy.
April 11, 1992: The USS Midway (CV-41) is decommissioned due to a combination of age and its status as an extremely poor seaboat.
April 18th 1992: Bill Clinton drops out of the primaries. He is now, at least through his wife, implicated in a federal investigation regarding a company called Whitewater. The only one opposing for nomination Cuomo now is Jerry Brown, but he does not have a chance.
May 25th, 1992: The Tonight Show (NBC-TV) is hosted by David Letterman in Los Angeles, California, after a decision by Johnny Carson.....
July 4, 1992: The USS George Washington (CVN-73) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
July 9th 1992: Mario Cuomo announces his choice for vice president, Governor Ann Richards of Texas.
July 13th, 1992: The Democratic National Convention starts at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.
July 16th, 1992: The Democratic party votes for Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards for their nominees for President and Vice President of the United States.
September 4th-7th, 1992: Chicago Riots; Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with local residents and police, proclaiming the "Devival"....
October 2nd-8th, 1992: United Nations General Assembly ratifies Resolution #426, granting the United Nations authority to "undertaking, coordinating, and disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects and related phenomena..."
October 20th, 1992: "Manekeny" the first album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, criticizing the Soviet Union with its hit singles "Twilight", "Stories for Boys", and "Another Time, Another Place"...
November 3rd 1992: The Democratic ticket of Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards defeats the Republican ticket of George H. W. Bush and Harold Stassen. It is the closet election since Kennedy and Nixon in 1960. Many Republicans blame the President's loss due to independent candidate H. Ross Perot. Also Southern Democrat Richards helps get Cuomo southern states.
November 10th, 1992: Xanana Gusmao, East Timorese rebel leader, launches a rebellion against the Indonesian government in Dili; Also on this day, Socially conscious rapper Engine Jammer makes his debut with the "Engine Jammer" album, featuring singles "Darkness", "Clear the Lane" and "Bullet in the Head"....
December 6th, 1992: "Prodigal Son" album by the Irish Band is a moderate success, with singles "Street Fighting Man" and "Parachute Woman"...
December 12th, 1992: Godzilla vs. Gigamoth. Godzilla and Mothra Team up to fight the earth protecting monster Giga-moth. The films climax battle destroys the entire city of Nagoya. The movie has strong environmental messages as the monsters Giga-moth and Mothera destroy a refinery in an eariler battle. The film ends with the Japanese PM and the American President (James Cromwell in his first appearance in the series) talking about creating an international Anti-monster unit. The film is a huge hit in Japan and gets enough interest to be brought over and distributed in the US. It does rather well in the US and European markets.
December 15th-28th, 1992: General Dzhokhar Dudayev launches an Islamic fundamentalist uprising in Tblisi, Georgia SSR...
December 31st, 1992: Members of the Church of the SubGenius clash with local residents at Club No in Dallas, Texas, leading to the arrest of 23 people...
February 16th, 1993: First Electric Vehicle Convention is held in Burbank, California, highlighting the growth of the electric vehicle market....
February 22, 1993: Babylon 5 premieres on television. It will last five seasons and have season TV movies.
March 18, 1993: The Mexican government announces a plan to modernize and improve its military. Looking to the United States, the Mexican government asks for help in dealing with the drug cartels and offers to allow American troops to enter Mexico to deal with the cartels.
May 7, 1993: The first squadrons of IAI Lavi multirole fighters roll off the production line in Israel.
May 8, 1993: South Africa orders 56 Lavi fighters from Israel.
6 July 1993: Shuttle Baikal completes the first manned mission in a Russian shuttle the two man crew spend 24 hours in orbit before landing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
July 10, 1993: The USS Ranger (CV-61) is decommissioned as part of the post-Cold War military cutbacks.
July 13th, 1993: "Nice & Easy" album is released, featuring the hit singles "Nice & Easy" and "She's Funny That Way"..
July 28th, 1993: Soviet troops led by Colonel Viktor Prusakov crush Ukranian nationalists in Sevastopol, Ukraine SSR...
August 7th, 1993: True Blue starring Kathy Konners and Alec Baldwin makes its hit film debut, debuting the hit song "True Blue" by Kathy Konners...
August 9th, 1993: Brenda Harvey, estranged ex-wife of Lionel Richie, shoots and kills Diane Alexander at a parking garage in Los Angeles, California....
August 21, 1993: In the Soviet Union, production of the Yakovlev Yak-141 Freestyle begins. The Freestyle is the world's first supersonic VTOL fighter. In response, the US increases funding for its own fifth generation supersonic STOVL fighter.
September 1st 1993: Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter start with their daily comedy show Conan and Andy on Fox
September 11, 1993: The USS Forrestal (CV-59) is decommissioned as part of the post-Cold War military cutbacks.
September 29th, 1993: With the opening of an "Inay's" Filipino restaurant in Washington D.C., "Inay's" reports 272 restaurants worldwide...
October 12th, 1993: "Oktober" album by "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") is banned by Soviet authorities. Copies of the albums go on the black market...
October 19, 1993: The Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk is launched from the Black Sea Shipyard in Ukraine. It is the Soviet Union's first nuclear powered supercarrier with a length of 1065 feet, a displacement of 80,000 tons, and an airwing of 70 aircraft composed of MiG-29Ks, Su-33s, Yak-44s, and Ka-27s. The Ulyanovsk is commissioned on March 16, 1994.
November 21st 1993: The sequel to House of Cards begins. To Play the King is about Prime Minister Urquhart and his clashes with the new unnamed King (Based on Prince Charles)
November 24th, 1993: Wall Street Journal reports illegal usage of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) in professional sports nationwide...
November 26th, 1993: People's Stock Market (PSM) is opened in Moscow, launching a massive economic upswing for the Soviet Union....
December 5th, 1993: "Let It Bleed" album by Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut with the singles "Love in Vain" and "Let It Bleed"...
December 6th, 1993: Gangotri Mission launches India's first manned exploration of the lunar surface, led by Dr. Sayed Zahoor Qasim, sparking international attention to South Asia as a rising power on the global stage...
December 11th, 1993: Godzilla Vs. Mecha-Godzilla. The anti-Godzilla taskforce G-force is made and uses the remaining parts from Mecha-King Ghidorah. Godzilla is attacked by the massive flying battleship based off of the Super-X and the future technology. Godzilla also gets a son in this film as well as Rodan returns for the film but dies at the end. This film is another smash in Japan as well as internationally.
January 1st, 1994: EZLN "Zapatista" guerillas led by "Commandante Marcos" launch a Soviet-backed armed insurrection in Chiapas, Mexico in opposition to "American military occupation"...
January 12, 1994: The HMCS Columbia (SSN-876), Canada's first nuclear submarine, is delivered to the Canadian Forces. The Columbia's sister ships Niobe, Aurora, Patriot, Labrador, and Acadia are all launched between 1995 and 2002. Also on this day, President Salinas declares a "national state of emergency" amidst growing violence regarding EZLN guerilla fighting...
January 22nd, 1994: Health officials blame "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) for a spike in AIDS/HIV cases amongst persons over 55+ years old in Toronto, Canada....
February 21st, 1994: Gangotri Mission members led by Dr. Sayed Zahoor Qasim are proclaimed "national heroes" in New Delhi, India, with the world's largest ticker-tape parade....
February 21st, 1994: Feminist leader Homa Darabi leads rallies condemning the Shah of Iran in Tehran, encouraging women to vote, despite pressure by religious clerics...
February 27, 1994: The aircraft carrier Soyuz, the Ulyanovsk's sister ship, is launched from the Black Sea Shipyard in Ukraine. The Soyuz is commissioned on May 8, 1994. The Soyuz is soon assigned as the flagship of the Soviet Navy Pacific fleet.
March 7, 1994: Armenian forces shoot down an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force C-130E Hercules carrying Iranian embassy personnel from Tehran to Moscow near Ballica in the Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, killing all 32 people on board.
March 23rd, 1994: Presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio survives an assassination attempt in Mexico City, Mexico. Also on this day, March 23, 1994: Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310-304, is flying with unauthorized people – the pilot's 16-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter – in the cockpit when the 16-year-old unintentionally disengages the autopilot without the pilots' knowledge, causing the plane to bank steeply, go into an unexpected nearly vertical dive, and crash into a hillside in the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range 20 km (12 miles) east of Mezhdurechensk, Russia. All 75 people on board die.
April 10th, 1994: Student activist Zhu Ling dies of poisoning in Beijing, China, sparking outrage nationwide...
April 17, 1994: The Canadian Army is deployed to Rwanda to stop the Genocide. The PPCLI and Airborne Regiment are deployed via Air Canada passenger jets and Antonov An-124s to immediately secure the area for further reinforcements arrive. Soon after, more units from the Canadian Army arrive as well as the units from the US army, British army, Soviet army, South African army, and German army.
May 4, 1994: The MN Charles de Gaulle (R91) is launched from the Brest Naval Shipyard.
May 5th, 1994: Anti-war protests le by Chicano/Latino leaders take place in San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Santa Fe, NM; Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX; and Houston, TX protesting American military support to Mexico...
June 21st, 1994: Megawati Sukarnoputri calls for democratic reforms, during an anti-government rally in Jakarta, Indonesia....
June 25, 1994: UNAMIR-II reestablishes peace in Rwanda, though the Genocide had still taken 225,000 lives.
July 4th, 1994: Storming Heaven novel by Tom Clancy, details a possible war between the People's Republic of China and India with U.S. orbital weapons as the "last line of defense"....
July 6th, 1994: Worlds Collide (DC Comics) by Marv Wolfman and Dwayne McDuffie reintroduces the "multiverse" with the creation of the ethnically diverse "Earth-D"
July 24, 1994: The Mexican government purchases 60 F-15C/D Eagles and 96 F-16C/D (Block 25) Fighting Falcons to replace the F-5 Tiger II in its arsenal. They also buy the 20 P-3 Orion, 16 C-130 Hercules, 6 KC-10 Extender, 8 Nimrod AEW3, and 10 Airbus A310 for the Fuerza Aérea Mexicana.
August 20, 1994: The USS Saratoga (CV-60) is decommissioned as part of the post-Cold War military cutbacks.
September 18th, 1994: Toho and Paramount announce that a joint Godzilla project will occur in the near future. Though they do not have a script they intend it to be set in the US. The film will be produced by Tomuyiki Tanaka, Shogo Tomiyama, Francis Ford Coppala, and Jerry Wientraub.
September 20th, 1994: NASA scientists at Mare Nubium report the discovery of geological evidence detailing the origins of the lunar surface, sparking international attention....
November 1st, 1994: Masquerade of Angels by Karla Turner published, alleging that most encounters with aliens actually involve malevolent entities known as "Reptoids" that routinely rape and deceive humans...
November 23rd-26th, 1994: Pittsburgh Riots; Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with local police and residents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania proclaiming the "Circus Apocalypse"....
December 10th 1994: Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla is released. The film is about the giant monster combating an evil doppelganger. The city of Fukuoka is destroyed in the film. There is a sub-plot showing Soviet intelligence acting under the orders of the Premier G-force dealing with the politics of the space effects of the cold war.
December 11th, 1994: Philippine Airlines Flight #434, is bombed by Ramzi Yousef over Cebu, Philippines killing 273 people....
December 19th, 1994: EZLN guerillas announce control of 76 different municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico....
January 17, 1995: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake batters Japan. 6,500 people lose their lives and cost Japan 102.5 billion in damage.
January 20th, 1995: Police officials report smuggling of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
February 9th, 1995: Mexican government forces launch a massive offensive against EZLN Zapatista guerillas in Chiapas, Mexico...
February 28th, 1995: "Mir" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins"), makes its hit debut, released in the West, with hit singles "Drowning Man", "Surrender" and "Seconds"...
March 13th, 1995: Azerbaijani Uprising; General Rovshan Javadov launches an uprising against the Soviet government in Baku, calling for national independence...
March 17th, 1995: Ronald Kray seizes control of the criminal underworld through prison connections in London, England...
March 18th -19th, 1995: Michael Eisner, CEO of Walt Disney Corp., claims,"the release of government documents about ongoing alien encounters. Most Americans will likely explore outer space aboard crafts of alien origin..."
March 21st, 1995: "Dear Jesus" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut with hit singles "Act of Contrition", "Promise to Try" and "Love Song" ; Singer Kathy Konners sparks controversy after stating LGBT persons "will never experience true love", citing AIDS/HIV as "divine providence" during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine....
April 2nd, 1995: Federick Donovisco makes his professional debut in professional soccer in New York City, New York...
April 11th, 1995: Dokstok Concert; c.50,000 people attend concert by the Church of the Subgenius in Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas featuring Rape Gorilla, Pink Boys, Feltch the Bloody Stump, et al.
April 23rd, 1995: "Bitch" album by Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut, despite being banned by British and American radio stations...
May 5th, 1995: PSLV-C6 carries CARTOSAT-1 and HAMSAT satellites are launched from Sriharikota, India, signalling the nation's intent to become a commercial launch center....
May 17th, 1995: Police crackdown on the Church of the Subgenius during a "Devival" in Austin, Texas, sparking national attention...
May 24th, 1995: Toyota Motor Company celebrates the 10th anniversary of its popular "Aqua" line in Tokyo, Japan....
June 19, 1995: The Mexican government purchases two Belknap-class cruisers, ten Farragut-class guided missile destroyers, six Brooke-class guided missile frigates, thirteen Knox-class frigates, seven Uzushio-class submarines, and seven Wichita-class replenishment oilers for the Armada de México as part of their plan to modernize their military.
July 5th, 1995: Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with local police in Portland, Oregon, leading to the arrest of 18 members...
July 22nd, 1995: Long Hot Summer (DC Comics) by D.G. Chichester details the sudden onset of violence within the "Earth-D", mirroring concerns about race relations....
August 6th-9th, 1995: Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with police and local residents in Cleveland, Ohio as part of their "Devival"....
September 15th, 1995: Mario Cuomo Announces his re-election campaign...
October 7, 1995: The Japanese government unveils the Mitsubishi F-2 Viper Zero. The F-2 is based on the F-16 Agile Falcon and has significant electronic improvements over the F-16C/D Block 50/52. The Japanese government orders 168 F-2s for the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force.
October 18th, 1995: Soviet officials announce that a "socialist market economy" is the goal of reforms in Moscow....
October 30, 1995: Quebec votes 50% to 49% in favour of sovereignty amid wide spread evidence of fraud on both sides...
November 5th, 1995: The final part of House of Cards begins. The Final Cut is about the end of Prime Minister Urquhart's career. It ends with his own death.
November 6, 1995: An independent UN monitored referendum on the issue of Quebec separatism shows that a whopping 94 percent of Quebec residents wish to stay as Canadians.
November 18th, 1995: Gangotri Mission members led by Dr. Harsh K. Gupta begin India's second manned mission to the lunar surface, sparking international tensions between India and Pakistan....
November 23rd, 1995: Dirty nuclear bomb explosion in Izmailovsky Park in Moscow planted by Chechen guerilla Shamil Basayev, sparks international concern about the safety of Soviet nuclear weapons....
December 9th 1995: Godzilla: G-Killer The American Japanese co-production is released. The film has many large Japanese names as well as American actors like, Tom Cruise, Micheal Douglas, and introducing a young actor named Clark Gregg. The films plot deals with Godzilla attacking Los Angles and the military response the film use of Suitmation and CGI. It Also is the first film to show (insert new air force weapon in here ). It is a smash hit. Also on this day, The USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
December 14, 1995: The Dayton peace Agreements are signed ending the Croatian offensive into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
December 30, 1995: The last of the Israeli Air Force's 92 Lavi fighters is completed. Work starts on South Africa's order of 56 Lavi fighters.
January 9th, 1996: Battle of Kizlyar; Soviet troops are sent into Kizlyar, in an effort to contain Chechen guerillas after 2,000 civilians are taken hostage; 145 people are killed in the rescue attempt...
February 2nd-18th, 1996: "Slack Crusade Tour"; Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with local residents in Chicago, IL; Madison, WI; Minneapolis, MN; Saint Louis, MO; Cleveland, OH; Pittsburgh, PA; Baltimore, MD; New York City, NY; and Boston, MA; sparking small riots in their wake...
March 16, 1996: Saint Pierre and Miquelon are ceded to Canada from France. The islands are designated as part of the province of Quebec.
March 23, 1996: The Canadian government purchases 232 Leopard 2 MBTs, 140 M2 Bradley IFVs, 765 LAV III IFVs, 56 AAV-7A1 amphibious assault vehicles, and 560 upgrade M113 APCs. The total costs of everything is ~4 billion dollars.
April 16th, 1996: "Evil Empire" album by rap artist Engine Jammer makes its hit debut with singles "Revolver", "Snakecharmer", and "Without a Face"...
May 18, 1996: The first Northrop F-23 Phantasm stealth air superiority fighter roles off the production line. The United States Air Force will eventually receive some 750 which will replace the oldest F-15 Eagles and F-16 Fighting Falcons.
May 31st, 1996: The Arrival starring Charlie Sheen and Ron Silver details a covert invasion of Earth, by the "originators of the 1977 Wow! Signal", making its hit film debut....
July 5th, 1996: X-Day Rehearsal is held in Portland, Oregon, with minimal violence, but with a heavy police presence....
July 26, 1996: The HMAS Collins (SSG-73) is commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy. It is the first of eight Collins-class hunter killer submarines. Its sister ships are named HMAS Farncomb (SSG-74), HMAS Waller (SSG-75), HMAS Dechaineux (SSG-76), HMAS Sheean (SSG-77), HMAS Rankin (SSG-78), HMAS Sinclair (SSG-79), and HMAS Harrington (SSG-80). The Collins-class submarines are 254 feet (77.42 meters) in length, have a crew of 58, are equipped with the Thales Type 2040 sonar, and are armed with six 533mm torpedo tubes.
July 31, 1998: The first ship of the Gwanggaeto the Great-class, the ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great (DDH-971) is commissioned into the Republic of Korea Navy. The Gwanggaeto the Great is 445 feet (135.5 meters) in length, has a displacement of 3900 tons full load, a pair of Westland Lynx helicopters, and a crew of 286.. It is armed with an Oto Melara 127mm/54-caliber naval gun, 2 Signaal 30mm Goalkeeper CIWS, 2 Mark 141 Harpoon missile launchers, 1 Mark 48 Mod 2 VLS, and 2 324mm triple fire torpedo tubes.
August 22nd 1996: The last of the MiG-23 series is cut up for scrap marking the end of the planned reduction in aircraft althought the 'Badger' series is also now being looked at for decomissioning.
August 24th, 1996: ACT UP! bombs Stadtlander's Department Store in New York City, New York killing 4 people....
September 7, 1996: The USS United States (CVN-75) is launched from Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. It replaces the recently decommissioned USS America (CV-66).
September 11th, 1996: Penthouse magazine publishes alleged photographs of aliens fom Roswell, New Mexico, sparking international attention....
September 18th 1998: The Kirov Class Battlecruiser Leonid Brezhnev is comissioned into service with the Northern Fleet, her sister and sixth of the class to be laid down the Nikita Khruschev is due to enter service in 1999. The other Kirov class vessels will be refitted once the two new ships are in service to upgrade their electronics and weapon systems. The battlecruisers will form the central part of the escort groups for the new Carriers Ulyanovsk and Riga whilst the keels for their sisters the Tbilisi and Murmansk are to be laid down within the next few months.Production of the Sovremenny and Udaloy classes continues.
October 1st, 1996: "Forgotten Ice" by the Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Wire" and "Promenade"...
October 10, 1996: The Canadian government purchases 78 ASW helicopters (based on the Sikorsky S-92 Superhawk design), 32 AugustaWestland AW101 Merlins for SAR duties, 136 Bell 412s (with more powerful engines), 46 OH-58D Kiowa Warriors, and 40 Boeing CH-47D Chinooks for 1.18 billion dollars.
November 11, 1996: The Royal Highland Regiment of Canada and Voltigeurs de Quebec are reactivated as active units of the Canadian Army.
December 7th, 1996: Godzilla VS. Destroyah is released, it is another US-Japan co-production. The film deals with Godzilla fighting the monster Destroyah Created from the Oxygen-destroyer of the first film. The ending shocks many, Godzilla Dies! But Godzilla's son becomes another Godzilla.
December 15th, 1996: UFO activist Debbie Jordan tells reporters on 20/20 (ABC-TV) that,"I feel as if they're pretty much done with what they've been doing for a while, and the time is drawing very near, very quickly, that we're going to be ready for what they have planned next, and I think it's going to be open contact. I think that there's going to be a lot of admissions made by a lot of people, way up in the "high-ups," and the "should-knows," that are going to finally talk. I think that big, big things are right on the horizon..."
December 25th, 1996: Evita starring Madonna and Jeremy Irons, based on the msical by Andrew Lloyd webber, makes its hit debut....
January 20th, 1997: Socially conscious rap artist Engine Jammer performs on Radio Free Los Angeles, with video segments by Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, and Leonard Peltier....
January 31, 1997: The INS Vikrant (R11) is decommissioned. The Indian government decides to keep the Vikrant as a maritime museum docked at Mumbai.
February 6, 1997: The British government in conjunction with the British Archaeological Association announces a new 40 million pound project to catalogue and link all historical languages on Earth. A spokesman for the BAA said the project will be used to track the evolution migration of human culture through the use of language.
March 13th, 1997: National Organization for Women (NOW) proposes a ban on "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) to counter Republican efforts to ban federal funding for Planned Parenthood...
March 15th, 1997: Former Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski states he has "no regrets giving arms and advice to future terrorists..." during a lecture in New York City, New York...
March 24, 1997: The United Kingdom surprised the world by officially recognizing the Canadian claim to the North West passage. While Australia and Taiwan had already made the announcement several months ago the statement from the United Kingdom lends incredible weight to the Canadian argument that the passage constitutes part of its ‘internal waters’. With the United Kingdoms history and dependency on ocean travel, many countries will take this proclamation as the correct verdict. A spokesman for the United Kingdom released the following statement.
“The waters through the Canadian Arctic differ only from the waters of other nations in scale. These waters are surrounded only by Canadian soil. Current maritime laws deal best with Open Ocean not the complex and intertwined waters of the North West Passage.”
If the North West passage is officially recognized by the world and the United nations to being Canadian Internal waters, Canada would have jurisdiction to police, enforce and even deny entry to ships based on Canadian law.
March 26th, 1997: Tesla Motors unveils the "Tesla Model S" family sedan in San Carlos, California, sparking interest in the market for electric vehicles nationwide....
April 13, 1997: The University of Taipei has announced the most successful and most efficient test of controlling plasma to date. Using two differently charged plasma sources and setting the two in rotation around each other researchers at the University created a stable bubble of plasma for over 5 seconds without the use of containing magnetic fields. It is hoped this line of research will move forward toward more efficient fusion power plants and better ion engine for space exploration probes.
April 22nd, 1997: The Magic 7 (NBC-TV) animated film starring John Candy,Michael J. Fox, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, and Ice-T, makes its hit debut....
April 24th, 1997: Richard Boylan leads a rally outside White Sands Missile Base in New Mexico, proclaiming to 436 people that UFOs are about to land...
May 20th, 1997: Criminal syndicates begin the sale and trade of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) throughout Sweden...
June 16th, 1997: "Remember the Men In Black" single by Will Smith (featuring Michael Jackson) makes its hit debut....
June 27th, 1997: NASA scientists led by Roberta Score uncover meteorites from the planet Mars on the lunar surface at Mare Tranquilitas, sparking international attention and concern....
July 5th, 1997: X-Day Rehearsal is held in Portland, Oregon, with minimal violence, but with a heavy police presence....
July 8th, 1997: Pat Robertson posits that UFOs are actually demonic in origin and suggests enthusiasts be stoned...
July 11th, 1997: Contact based on a screenplay by Carl Sagan, details the first months of the "1977 Wow Signal", starring Matthew McConaughey and Jodie Foster, sparking international attention....
July 17th, 1997: MSNBC-TV credits Tesla Motors as one of the "new giants" in the automotive field during a broadast from New York City, New York....
July 27, 1997: The Canadian science fiction show Stargate SG-1 premieres on television. The series will span 242 episodes across eleven seasons and have two spinoff series (Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe) and several movies.
August 7, 1997: The British Army conducts a simulated quarantine mad cow outbreak and containment in the county of Wiltshire. An estimated 70 bought cows, both dairy and beef varieties, were rounded up and destroyed to give experience in the large scale disposal of contaminated beef and effective quarantine procedures. A spokesman for the Armed forces said such ‘preventive measures simulation’ would help to limit future outbreak should any arise.
August 8, 1997: Federico Donovisco is transferred to Juventus Turin for $34.9 million, making him the most expensive US player ever. Also on this day, Mexico City Riots; Riots erupt in Mexico City, amidst reports of UFOs being seen over the city, sparking international attention and concern...
August 15th, 1997: Event Horizon starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill, directed by first time director Frederick Schoen, makes its hit debut...
September 21st, 1997: Cooking Up Love book by "Inay's" Chairman Martin Algarra becomes a major bestseller....
October 24th, 1997: Ivo A. Benda establishes the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" movement in Prague, Czechoslovakia, calling for resistance to Communist authorities...
November 3, 1997: Researchers for the University of Taipei made a breakthrough in solid-state memory storage. A 1 cm cube of pure are officially grown crystal was successfully encoded with 5MB of data and read using three-dimensional mapping techniques. With the successful first step in three-dimensional solid state memory storage the researchers will continue to reduce the necessary material required to store data. The research is confident that within 10 years there will be research grade memory storage at the quantum level and within 15 commercially viable versions.
November 12th, 1997: The American series The House of Cards premieres. It is about Republican Senator Frances Urquhart's rise. She goes from Whip to Majority leader to and eventually President. This role will get Susan Sarandon and her co-stars numerous Emmey wins.
November 17, 1997: Federico Donovisco shoots the decisive goal for the USA in a playoff against AFC member South Korea, the US winning 2-0. The US qualifies for the World Cup.
November 19th, 1997: Elvis Presley guest-stars on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (CBS-TV), singing several of his gospel songs...
December 15th, 1997: Space Moose (TV-MA) is approved for broadcast on The Comedy Channel...
January 13th, 1998: Alfredo Ormando leads a rally calling for the Vatican to accept LGBT members into the Roman Catholic Church; Also on this day, Federico Donovisco wins a $75 million advertising contract with NIKE, and a $25 million contract with Pepsi-Cola, making Donovisco the highest paid soccer player worldwide...
January 29th, 1998: Tesla Motors is initially offered as publicly optioned stock in New York City, New York, as one of the fastest growing industries on the NYSE and NASDAQ....
February 4th, 1998: Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is wounded while in Brussels, Belgium by Noel Godin, sparking concerns about anti-American sentiment in Europe....
March 23rd, 1998: Contact wins the Oscar for Best Picture; William H. Macy wins Best Supporting Actor for his perormance as President Jimmy Carter; at the Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California....
March 28, 1998: Scottish researchers at University of Edinburgh create the highest density battery cell to date with an experimental energy storage density of 25 MJ/kg. While the battery created requirements for production preclude large scale manufacturing, the information learned from the constructions is considered useful for potentially doubling or tripling current energy storage density for commercial batteries.
April 5th, 1998: Actor Tom Hanks is launched into space as a "space tourist" at Cape Canaveral, Florida...
April 10, 1998: The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Belfast aboard the Mexican destroyer escort ARM Manuel Azueta (D111).
May 21st, 1998: Tesla Motors announces a "strategic alliance" with Toyota Motor Company in a press conference in San Francisco, California....
June 28, 1998: Donovisco scores a penalty in the 90+3'rd minute of the 1/8-final match of the world cup: USA vs. Italy. Due to Italy playing Catenaccio (=defense-only), the match had been 0-0. Italy has to go home.
June 29, 1998: Italian Congress starts an investigation into the match, sparking tensions between the United States and Italy....
June 30th, 1998: Pamela Stonebrooke claims to have had sexual contact with "Reptoids" in her book Experiencer: A Jazz Singer’s True Account of Extraterrestrial Contact. Also on this day, Federico Donovisco sparks national controversy after insulting President Mario Cuomo during a match in Washington D.C.,...
July 5th, 1998: X-Day Riots; Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with police and local residents, proclaiming the "landing of the alien fleet" in several major cities in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain...
July 6th, 1998: National polls show c.670,000 people nationwide believe they have been the subject of alien abduction in Prague, Czechoslovakia;Also on this day, The US loses the semifinal of the World Cup against a really offensive-playing Dutch team, 1-0. Even Donovisco could not save the US.
July 11th, 1998: Socially-conscious rap music artist Engine Jammer sparks controversy after meeting with members of EZLN in Chiapas, Mexico...
July 20th, 1998: Actress Jodie Foster comes out of the closet during a press conference in Los Angeles, California, with life-partner Cydney Bernard...
July 25, 1998: The USS United States (CVN-75) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
August 8th, 1998: Bonbrovnik Riots; Riots erupt in Bobrovnik, Czechoslovakia after members of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" proclaim a UFO landing...
August 22nd, 1998: A jar of androstenedione is found in the locker of Stefan Effenberg in the Bayern Munich club house. Although not a steroid, it is a precursor, sparking international controversy...
September 2, 1998: A Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 suffers major mechanical problems and crashes off of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. Rescue teams from the USS Arleigh Burke and HMCS Huron manage to rescue 32 people from the crash.
September 28th, 1998: Albanian Uprising; Fatos Nano leads pro-democracy uprising in Tirana, Albania, sparking fears of a Soviet crackdown...
September 30, 1998: The USS Independence (CV-62) is decommissioned as part of the post-Cold War military cutbacks.
October 7th, 1998: Ivo A. Benda, leader of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" movement warns of the threat of "Saurian beings" during a rally in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
October 16th, 1998: "You Can't Rock Me" album by the Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Dance Little Sister", "Luxury", and "Short and Curlies"....
October 20th, 1998: "Where Life Begins" album by Kathy Konners sparks controversy with its pro-life/anti-abortion message, with hit singles "Why It's So Hard", "In This Life", "Where Life Begins" and "Waiting"
November 11th, 1998: Mayor Willie Brown is assassinated during a rally at City Hall in San Francisco, California by members of the Biotic Defense Brigade (BDB), sending shockwaves nationwide...
November 13, 1998: Michael Trudeau, the youngest son of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau is killed in an avalanche while skiing at British Columbia’s Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park.
November 14th, 1998: Chandrayaan-1 is launched from Sriharikota, India as Moon Impact Probe (MIP), sparking international attention....
January 1st, 1999: David Icke posits that the world is being secretly controlled by demonic/alien "Reptoids" (aka "Draconians") in his work The Biggest Secret...
January 25th, 1999: Former baseball player Joe DiMaggio dies of congestive heart failure in San Francisco, California, sparking international attention....
February 17, 1999: It is revealed that the A and B tests of Donovisco after a match played by Juventus Turin against AC Siena on September 9, 1997 were positive.
February 18, 1999: Donovisco denies ever having used steroids and attributes the positive results to a "medicine" of an unspecified type...
February 19, 1999: Gennaro Marchisio, prominent defender at AC Milan, accuses forward Donovisco of having deliberately used steroids...
March 2nd, 1999: 90th Anniversary of the first "Hybrid Vehicle" by Henri Pieper is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan....
March 9th, 1999: "The Disappeared" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") is banned by Soviet officials, but becomes a major hit worldwide with hit singles "Trip Through Your Wires", "Exit" and "The Disapeared. It is considered one of the best, and also one of the most politically loaded albus of the band...
March 19th, 1999: With the opening of "Inay's" in Moscow, Russia, "Inay's" reports 2,498 restaurants worldwide in a press conference in San Francisco, California.....
April 11th, 1999: "2000 Tesla Roadster", the first ZEV roadster is unveiled in Palo Alto, California, sparking national attention amongst car enthusiasts....
May 26, 1999: Bayern Munich wins the Champions League with 6-5 after penalty shootout, after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hits the post after Beckham's corner and the penalty shot by Jaap Stam is saved by Oliver Kahn.
July 4th, 1999: Soccer player Federico Donovisco sparks national attention after marrying singer/actress Jennifer Lopez in a private ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada...
July 9th-14th, 1999: Iranian Revolution; Democratic rebellion led by Mohammad Khatami, overthrows the government in Tehran, Iran...
August 19th, 1999: Andris Blakis is arrested in Los Angeles, California after a co-worker suffers radiation poisoning due to phosphorous-32,...
August 27th, 1999: The Astronaut's Wife starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron, directed by Frederick Schoen....
November 2nd, 1999: "Guerilla Radio" album by rap artist Engine Jammer makes its hit debut with singles "Born of a Broken Man", "Voice of the Voiceless", "Ashes in the Fall", and "War Within a Breath"...
November 11, 1999: The 8th Canadian Hussars and the Ontario Regiment of the Royal Canadian Armored Corps were to be returned to the Regular Force.
December 30th, 1999: Former Beatles member George Harrison is killed by celebrity stalker Michael Abram in Friar Park, England...
January 14th, 2000: Supernova starring James Spader, Angela Bassett, and Robert Forster, directed by Frederick Schoen, makes its hit debut, many critics state it "reinvents the genre"....
January 26th, 2000: Socially conscious rap artist Engine Jammer sparks a small brawl after throwing $1,000 in $20 bills on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, New York proclaiming,"This is your god!"
February 5th, 2000: Prague Riots; Riots erupt in Prague, Czechoslovakia after government forces prevent followers attempt to gather in Prague, to "witness the landing of the "Ptaah Squadron"..."
February 7th, 2000: Forbes magazine publishes its endorsement of commercial space travel, sparking international attention for investors...
March 31st, 2000: Singer Kathy Konners sparks controversy while appearing on The Tonight Show (NBC-TV) hosted by Conan O'Brian, by calling upon youth to take "chastity pledges" in Los Angeles, California....
April 23rd, 2000: "Crazy Mama" album by Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut, despite condemnation by women's groups with the song "Pop That Cherry"...
September 9th, 2000: Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the First Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
September 12, 2000: The Brazilian aircraft carriers NAeL Sao Paulo (ex-Foch) and NAeL Rio de Janiero (ex-Clemenceau) are commissioned into the Brazilian Navy replacing the aging Minas Gerais.
September 17th, 2000: Soviet journalist Georgiy Gongadze defects to the United States in Berlin, Germany.....
October 10th, 2000: "Freedom for My People" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") is released nationwide, despite government attempts of censorship with hit singles "Freedom for My People", "Love Rescue Me", and "Heartland"...
October 25th, 2000: "Love Tried to Welcome Me" album by Kathy Konners, makes its hit debut with singles "Sanctuary", "Don't Stop" and "Inside of Me", amidst rumors of sexually explicit themes within the songs...
November 7th, 2000: George W. Bush looses the elections after it was proven by CBS News that he was a draftdodger where John Kerry did his Military Service.
George.W Bush (Rep) 43%
John Kerry (Dem) 47%
January 10, 2001: Britain proposes that the Turks and Caicos Islands become part of Canada.
January 14th, 2001: Canadian officials legalize medical marijuana dispenseries nationwide, sparking international attention in Ottawa, Ontario....
January 21st, 2001: 250,000 people gather in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China demanding political and civil reforms nationwide...
February 20th, 2001: Chinese leaders announce martial law due to pro-democracy rallies in Beijing, China sparking international condemnation....
March 6th, 2001: Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) launch a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, Chinese officials report c. 1,400 deaths in Beijing, China...
March 17th, 2001: British officials unveil the "New Eden" self-sustaining domed arcology, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw in Cornwall, Great Britain. It will serve as a model for other arcologies across the globe....
March 20, 2001: The Canadian government agrees to allow the Turks and Caicos Islands to join Canada on the condition that they vote on it in a referendum.
April 1st, 2001: FIFA implements its first random drug-testing program in the minor leagues. All players not on a team’s 40-man roster are subject to random testing for performance-enhancing drugs. The penalty for a first positive test is 15 games. Players testing positive five times will receive a lifetime ban.
April 27th, 2001: With the opening of "Inay's" Filipino food restaurant in Switzerland and Austria, "Inay's" reports 4,709 restaurants worldwide in San Francisco, California...
May 3, 2001: The referendum is hold and the results show that 82 percent of Turks and Caicos Islands residents wish to join Canada.
May 18, 2001: The MN Charles de Gaulle (R91) is commissioned into the Marine Nationale (French Navy).
May 25th, 2001: Singer Kathy Konners headlines "Festival Con Dios" in Murray, Kentucky, amidst controversy over her Christian fundamentalist beliefs...
June 1, 2001: The Turks and Caicos Islands become the fourth territory of Canada.
June 7th, 2001: Adventure Network International (ANI) announces that it will be launching civilian and corporate tourists to the lunar surface, during a press conference in Los Angeles, California....
July 4th, 2001: Space Moose: Millennium Moose is released in theaters, proving to be a sleeper hit...
September 8th, 2001: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the Second Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
October 19th, 2001: Royal Space Force: Blue Uru by Hiroyuki Yamaga details the efforts of an alien race to develop a FTL drive, highlighting the latest in anime techniques.....
November 27th, 2001: Tensions mount across the globe as North Korean troops exchange gunfire with American troops, killing 6 American soldiers and 8 North Korean soldiers...
December 12th, 2001: Irv Rubin, Jewish Defense League kills Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) in Culver City, California...
January 10th, 2002: Ivo A. Benda, leader of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" warns on state television of "Projekt: Porucha", an alleged Soviet plot to implant "control chips" into the minds of people in Prague, Czechoslovakia..
February 5, 2002: A Norwegian-negotiated ceasefire brought peace to Sri Lanka for the first time in 15 years.
March 15th, 2002: Seoul Riots; 250,000 protesters led by Lee Dong-an clash with police officials in Seoul, South Korea...
April 11th, 2002: American-backed pro-democracy revolution led by Pedro Carmona, overthrows the government in Caracas, Venezuela....
May 22nd, 2002: The Apocalypse starring Rhett Giles and Jill Stapley makes its hit film debut....
June 9th, 2002: "Shattered" album by Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut with the hit singles "Far Away Eyes", "Beast of Burden" amd "Shattered"...
June 11th, 2002: American Idol (UPN-TV) hosted by Simon Cowell and Cindy Lauper makes its hit television debut in Hollywood, California...
June 22, 2002: Senegal wins after El-Hadji Diouf scores a Golden Goal in the 91st minute of extra time.
June 29th, 2002: U.S. and South Korean naval forces clash with North Korean naval vessels as they cross the Northern Limit Line...
August 7th, 2002: FIFA players and owners agree to their first joint drug program since 1985, calling for anonymous testing to begin in 2003. If more than five percent of the steroid tests are positive in 2003 or 2004, players would be randomly tested for a two-year period. Players won’t be punished for testing positive.
September 3rd, 2002: Musician Lance Bass, N'Sync, is launched into space at Cape Canaveral, Florida
September 7th, 2002: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the Third Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
September 20th, 2002: Firefly (UPN-TV) starring Nathan Fillion, written and directed by Joss Whedon, makes its hit television debut..,
October 22nd, 2002: Ivo A. Benda, leader of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" warns on state television of "Projekt: Porucha", an alleged Soviet plot to implant "control chips" into the minds of people in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
October 25th, 2002: Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) narrowly survives a plane crash outside the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill...
November 1st, 2002: Victoria Beckham, wife of soccer player David Beckham, is kidnapped and held for ransom in London, England...
November 2nd, 2002: Five people are arrested in Los Angeles, California, suspected of plotting a kidnapping attempt on the two children of Federico Donovisco and Jennifer Lopez...
November 14th, 2002: U.S. F-18s launch air strikes at enriched uranium facilities in Pyongyang, North Korea....
November 16th, 2002: U.S. naval forces fire warning shots at North Korean naval vessels as they cross the Northern Limit Line...
November 20th, 2002: South Korean naval forces fire warning shots at North Korean naval vessels as they cross the Northern Limit Line...
November 23rd-24th, 2002: Battle of Kwangju; U.S. military forces successfully resist North Korean offensive against Kwangju, South Korea....
November 25th, 2002: Ivo A. Benda, leader of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" warns of "Projekt: Porucha", an alleged Soviet plot to implant "control chips" into the minds of people in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Also on this day, Siege of Seoul; North Korean forces launch a failed massive siege of Seoul, South Korea...
December 16, 2002: Canada signs the Kyoto Accord, limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
December 17, 2002: The Quebec City police arrest many people in a child prostitution bust that includes many well-known people of the city.
December 20th, 2002: Firefly (UPN-TV) is proclaimed by Variety magazine, "UPN-TV, the network that Joss Whedon built...."
December 27th, 2002: Chicago starring Christina Applegate flops at the box office, despite positive film reviews...
January 12, 2003: White supremacists/Neo-Nazis hijack several planes and destroy the Reichstag (Bonn) , the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the Deutsche Bank Tower and the Phollipsburg NPP. 5067 people are killed.
January 16, 2003: After achieving orbit, the crew of the space shuttle Columbia is informed that a piece of foam broke off and damaged the thermal protection system. The Columbia crew is ordered to head to and dock with the ISS until the Atlantis is prepped for launch..
January 17, 2003: Jürgen Möllemann, Minister of Foreign Affairs, says that "a religious motive for the 1/12 attacks can be ruled out".
January 19, 2003: The "Kommando Adolf Hitler" declare themselves responsible for the attacks. Friedrich Merz, State Secretary/Minister of Domestic Affairs, says that "we have to fight the BAF" (Braune Armee Fraktion). 2003-2005: A full-blown purge against all right-leaning officials takes place. Several upper officials of the Verfassungsschutz and the police are fired and some even arrested. Also on this day, U.S. air strikes destroy Sanseong-dong, repelling North Korean positions, but killing c. 82 people as "collateral damage"....
January 26th, 2003: The Daily Show (ABC-TV) hosted by Jon Stewart makes its hit television debut....
February 13th, 2003: U.S. Defense Department apologizes for the actions taken at Sanseong-dong, during a press conference in Washington D.C.,...
February 19, 2003: The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched from Cape Canaveral to the ISS with supplies to repair the Columbia's thermal protection system.
February 22, 2003: The Columbia and Atlantis return home after successfully repairing the Columbia. The entire incident increases support for NASA...
February 24th, 2003: North Korean military forces unveil SCUD missile launchers in Pyongyang, North Korea...
March 2nd, 2003: Sea of Japan Incident; North Korean MiG-17s shoot down an American reconnaisance plane over the Sea of Japan, sparking tensions across the Pacific Rim...
March 10th, 2003: Tensions mount as U.S. reconnaisance sattellites report that North Korea has positioned SCUD misile launchers around the city of Pyongyang....
March 21st, 2003: Anti-war demonstrations are held in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Chicago, Atlanta, Georgia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, sparking national attention...
March 24th, 2003: U.S. State Department officials unveil satellite evidence of nuclear weapons development by the Changgwang Sinyong Corporation in Pyongyang, sparking fears of a regional nuclear conflict...
April 7th, 2003: Anti-war demonstrations shutdown the Port of Oakland, amidst concern over a possible draft in Oakland, California..
April 9, 2003: Australia commissions its first Spruance-class multirole destroyer, the HMAS New South Wales (DDGH-41), into the Royal Australian Navy. Its sister ships are the HMAS Queensland (DDGH-42), HMAS South Australia (DDGH-43), HMAS Tasmania (DDGH-44), HMAS Victoria (DDGH-45), and HMAS Western Australia (DDGH-46).
April 12th, 2003: ANSWER Coalition launches anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles, sparking international attention...
April 16th, 2003: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro dies of a heart attack in Havana, Cuba, sparking a succession crisis within the Communist state...
April 23rd-25th, 2003: Trilateral peace talks held in Beijing, between the United States, North Korea and the People's Republic of China collapse amidst accusations of "gunboat diplomacy"....
May 1st, 2003: Filipino food chain restaurant "Inay's" announces that it has 6,400 restaurants across the globe,during a press conference in San Francisco, California...
May 12th, 2003: North Korean leaders threaten to escalate the conflict with the possible launch of nuclear weapons at Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, South Korea during a state televised speech from Pyongyang, North Korea....
June 1st, 2003: Marijuana is legalized in parliamentary elections in Brussels, Belgium, sparking international attention and concern,...
June 30, 2003: The MOST Space Telescope is launched into orbit. It is the first space telescope dedicated to astroseismology. Most is both Canada’s first space telescope as well as the Worlds’ smallest one.
July 12, 2003: The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
July 15th, 2003: U.S. military announces successful airstrikes against North Korean nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, North Korea....
July 27th, 2003: Singer Enrique Iglesias and Soccer player Federico Donovisco begin a friendship after meeting during a soccer match in Miami, Florida...
August 7, 2003: The USS Constellation (CV-64) is decommissioned. It is replaced by the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76).
August 25th-27th, 2003: Six-party peace talks between North Korea, United States, People's Republic of China, South Korea, Russia, and Japan collapse in Beijing amidst accusations of "human rights violations"....
September 6th, 2003: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the Third Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Also on this day, The United States and Iran officially normalize diplomatic relations with each other.
September 12th, 2003: Political activist Ralph Nader is assassinated at a rally for gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo in San Francisco, California, sparking civil unrest and panic.....
October 6th, 2003: U.S. Department of Transportation reports that there are c. 3 million Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) on the roads across the United States....
October 7th, 2003: Canadian Parliament announce that same-sex marriages will be recognized by the government, sparking international attention and concern,....
October 25th, 2003: Anti-war demonstrations erupt in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Reno, Nevada and other cities across the globe...
November 6th, 2003: North Korean ambassador Ri Yong Ho defects in London, England warning that the North Korean military has a working nuclear weapon....
November 12th, 2003: Yokohoma Disaster; North Korean forces, in a last-ditch effort of a negotiated settlement launch a SCUD missile at Yokohoma, killing c. 8,420 people, the single largest civilian loss of life by Japan and the United States since World War II...
November 13th, 2003: FIFA announces that of 1,438 anonymous tests in the 2003 season, between five and seven percent were positive, triggering the start of random testing with penalties in 2004. A first offense will lead to counseling and a second offense to a 15-day suspension.
November 15th, 2003: Toyota, Nissan, and Honda resume auto production for the first time since the Yokohoma Disaster...
November 16th, 2003: Nikkei Stock Market falls 32% amidst foreign fears of radiation in Tokyo Japan...
November 19th, 2003: "Operation Barabossa" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Until the End of the World", "So Cruel" and "Mysterious Ways"....
November 20th, 2003: 128 nations begin transporting humanitarian aid to Yokohoma, sparking outrage from North Korea....
November 23rd, 2003: Tblisi Uprising; Soviet officials declare martial law after Eduard Shevardnadze is assassinated by Georgian nationalists...
November 24th, 2003: "Music for Relief" album is organized by Apex Predator, Kathy Konners, in an effort to provide humanitarian relief to the victims of the Yokohoma Disaster...
November 26th, 2003: Timeline starring Paul Walker and Gerard Butler, directed by Frederick Schoen, flops at the box office. It is considered the only box office loss of the director...
November 30, 2003: The ROKS Chungmugong Yi Sun-shin (DDH-975) is commissioned into the Republic of Korea Navy. It is 492 feet (150 meters) in length, has a displacement of 4500 tons standard (and 5520 tons full load), and a crew of 300. It is the first of six Chungmugong Yu Sun-shin-class destroyers to be built.
December 1st, 2003: A large and heavily escorted convoy of ships carrying relief supplies as well as medics arrives in Yokohama. The crews are all volunteers and for the most part are military. Supplies, shelters, donated clothing and goods and more are flown to the safe zones and refugee camps whilst specialist NBC teams from the US, UK, France, Germany and the Soviet Union go into Yokohama itself.
December 13th, 2003: Japanese Diet reports that the national economy has contracted c. 7.4% due to the Yokohoma Disaster...
December 15th, 2003: More convoys arrive with food and supplies, many donated to charities that have sprung up in the wake of the attack. The biggest contributer is the Music for Relief event which became the biggest public charity donation since Band Aid.
January 8, 2004: Daimler-Chrysler CEO Jürgen Schrempp is assassinated by the IACA (International Anti-Car Army). They claim that they "wanted to force Daimler to only build ecological cars".
March 3rd, 2004: "Sky Fits Heaven" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut with hit singles "Little Star", "To Have and Not to Hold", and "Has to Be"....
May 17th, 2004: First "Inay's" Union is established worldwide in San Francisco, California....
May 18, 2004: Stargate: The Lost City appears on the big screen. It is considered by many to a resounding success.
May 19th, 2004: Comedian Andy Kaufman announces a comedy concert tour in New York City, New York, after living away from the public eye....
May 26th, 2004: Singer Jennifer Hudson wins American Idol (UPN-TV) sparking national attention...
June 4th, 2004: c. 100,000 people protest the visit of U.S. President to the Vatican City in Rome, Italy....
June 5th, 2004: ANSWER Coalition launches anti-war protests in Washington D.C. and San Francisco, California calling for the withdrawal of troops from the Korean peninsula....
June 20th, 2004: "Down in the Hole" album by the Irish band Apex Predator. makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Where the Boys Go", "Dance" and "Let Me Go"....
July 8th, 2004: Pattern Recognition film based on the novel by William Gibson, starring Lorelei King, makes its hit film debut, based on the fear that aliens are behind "electronic voice phenomena"....
July 16, 2004: Stargate Atlantis premieres on international television. The series will last for seven seasons and have 154 episodes.
August 8, 2004: The AIDC F-ZS-2 Zhan Sun, a Taiwanese designed twin engine air superiority fighter takes off on its first flight. It will enter active service in the Republic of China Air Force in May 2010 and have a production run of 144 fighters.
August 27th, 2004: Japanese officials report c. 341,411 refugees created by the 2003 Yokohoma Disaster, sparking concern over humanitarian aid...
September 4th, 2004: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the Fourth Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
September 11th, 2004: Ukranian nationalist Viktor Yushchenko is assassinated in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, after demanding independence in a pro-democracy rally...
September 24th, 2004: Civil rights activist Anna Politkovskaya is assassinated in Rostov-on-Don, while investigating government corruption within the Soviet Union...
October 4th, 2004: "Inay's" launches it's XM radio site "Hear Music" to promote Asian music and artists, sparking international attention...
October 11th, 2004: Rock musician David Bowie becomes the latest celebrity space tourist after being launched from Rendlesham, England....
October 17th, 2004: Million Worker March; AFL-CIO and SEIU organize a massive demonstration against U.S. troops in the Korean Peninsual in Washington D.C.,....
November 2nd, 2004: President John McCain (R-AZ) is elected President of the United States, amidst harsh partisan rhetoric over service in the Vietnam War, sparking national attention...
John McCain (Rep) 48%
John Kerry (Dem) 50%
November 7, 2004: Brazilian player Ribeirinho (striker of Dynamo Kiev) tests positive for performance-enhancing steroids.
November 11th, 2004: Soviet Union becomes a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after trade talks in Paris, France....
November 17, 2004: The B-test is also positive for Brazilian player Ribeirinho.
November 20, 2004: Ribeirinho is banned for two years by FIFA from all national and international play.
January 7th, 2005: White Noise starring Michael Keaton and Deborah K. Unger, based on the idea of alien radio signals, makes its hit film debut....
January 13th, 2005: FIFA players and owners reach new drug-testing agreement calling for more banned substances and for a 10-day penalty for first-time offenders. Under the agreement made in Paris, France, players failing drug tests will have their names released to the public....
January 28th, 2005: Alone in the Dark starring Christian Slater and Tara Reid, directed by Frederick Schoen, makes its hit debut displaying the director's ability to adapt video games to film....
February 2nd, 2005: Soccer player Federico Donovisco and Singer Jennifer Lopez (a.k.a. "J-Fed") give birth to their third child named Enrique in Los Angeles, California...
March 14, 2005: The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence. This has the effect of angering the Taiwanese government.
March 26, 2005: The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Between 200,000 and 300,000 attend the walk.
April 15th, 2005: Religious fundamentalists launch a rebellion against the government of President Mohammad Khatami in Tehran, Iran...
May 7, 2005: The BASF main production plant in Ludwigshafen is attacked.
May 9, 2005: The NNSB (Neue Naturschutz-Bewegung) declares itself responsible.
June 23rd, 2005: House of M (Marvel Comics) by Brian Michael Bendis warns storyline warns of the "Last Days", during the X-Men based storyline...
July 3rd, 2005: Spanish officials announce the complete national decriminalization of marijuana in Madrid, Spain...
July 5th, 2005: "Numb" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Babyface", "Some Days Are Beter Than Others" and "Numb"....
July 18th, 2005: Communist authorities ban the "Symposium of Love" in Prague, Czechoslovakia, sparking anger from the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda...
July 29th, 2005: Soviet officials announce the creation of an independent global positionining system (GPS) in Baikonur, aiding the modernization of the Soviet Red Army....
August 18th-24th. 2005: Soviet and Chinese military forces launch joint military manuevers to "strengthen friendship" in Vladivostok, Soviet Union...
September 2nd, 2005: A Sound of Thunder starring Ed Burns and Ben Kingsley, directed by Frederick Schoen, solidifies Schoen as the "go-to person" regarding science fiction....
October 17th, 2005: Religious leader Eduard Albert Meier travels to Moscow, proclaiming extraterrestrial messages of world peace, sparking international attention.....
October 21st, 2005: 20/20 (ABC-TV) does an investigative report on the conditions at "Inay's" chains across the United States, sampling lumpia and pansit at different locations....
November 6th, 2005: Japanese officials announce the creation of a self-sustaining domed arcology in Tokyo, Japan, sparking international attention and concern,....
December 13th, 2005: U.S. Dpartment of Transportation reports that ZEVs account for 5.1% of U.S. vehicle sales and 3.1% of glbal vehicle sales worldwide....
December 16th, 2005: United Nations General Assembly debates the issue of response to extraterrestrial radio signals in New York City, New York, sparking religious and political debate worldwide...
February 9th, 2006: Church of the Greys led by Whitley Streiber sues The Boston Globe after it reports on apparent racist statements made by key leaders of the movement, in federal court in New York City, New York...
February 12th, 2006: Technologies of the Frontier (TDF) successfully wins passage of a petition that Europeans have a "constitutional right to space" before the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium..
February 16th, 2006: U.S./Chinese Business Council is established is established for the explicit purpose of opening trade with the People's Republic of China in Washington D.C.,...
March 1st, 2006: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda seize control of Brevnov, Czechoslovakia, sparking concern within the Warsaw Pact...
March 13th, 2006: President Idriss Déby is overthrown in a military coup by brothers Tom and Timane Erdimi in N'Djamena, Chad...
March 30th, 2006: U.S. trade officials call for the repeal of "local content" requirements for auto parts in the Soviet Union, during a conference in Zurich, Switzerland....
April 4th, 2006: Soviet officials announce the completion of the "BIOS-3" self-sustaining domed arcology in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, sparking international attention and concern...
April 11th, 2006: U.S./Chinese Business Council calls upon the World Trade Organization to accept membership for the People's Republic of China into the organization, amidst great political controversy...
April 26th, 2006: "Signal to Space" concerts are held in Berlin, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; New York City, New York; and Tokyo, Japan are launched in an effort to support SETI in sending a message to extraterrestrials...
May 18th, 2006: Andrew Martinez (a.k.a. "The Naked Guy") leads a pro-nudism movement rally in Berkeley, California....
May 30th, 2006: Shah Rez Pahlavi calls for American military intervention, citing political unrest and violence in his country during a press conference in Tehran, Iran....
June 8th, 2006: Non-violent student demonstrations take place in Tehran, Iran, calling for greater political and economic reforms....
June 15th, 2006: Same-sex marriages are legalized in New Zealand, despite pressure from the Anglican and Roman Catholic Church....
July 31st, 2006: Muslim fundamentalist terrorists led by Youssef Mohamad El Hajdib, bomb trains at Hamm and Koblenz, killing 18 people, sparking racial and religious tensions throughout Germany...
August 18, 2006: The first BAe Systems Nimrod MRA.4 Maritime Patrol aircraft is delivered to the Royal Navy to replace the Nimrod MR.2. A total of 58 production model Nimrods will be built over six years.
September 11th, 2006: Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland estate, due to a heart failure in Memphis, Tennessee...
September 16, 2006: The HMAS Sirius (O-266) is commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy.
September 19th, 2006: "Amazing" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut, with singles "Nobody's Perfect", and "Paradise (Not For Me)" and "Gone" expressing guilt over her alleged sexual affairs...
September 27, 2006: The Greens get the Majority in the Bundestag and, in October, agree on a coalition with the SPD. Joschka Fischer becomes Chancellor of Germany. They vow to "fight the fascist, Neo-Nazi and eco-terrorist threat". The NPD, for the first time in the history of Germany, get over the 5 percent threshold and send 6 delegates.
October 6th, 2006: Local officials announce the creation of the "Co-op City" self-sustaining domed arcology, outside the Bronx in New York City, New York, sparking international attention....
October 7th, 2006: Whitley Streiber calls for religious and tax-empt status for himself and his followers in Catskills, New York, sparking national attention...
October 9, 2006: The USS William F. Halsey (CVN-77) is launched from the Newport News Shipyard. The Halsey will be commissioned on January 10, 2009.
October 18th, 2006: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Soviet Union sparks cries of "racism" by Soviet-American Friendship Alliance in New York City, New York...
November 2, 2006: Bantharbunga Volcano on Iceland erupts in earnest (similar to the eruption of 1477, , making the year 2007 a "Year without a summer" and spurring fears of an apocalyptic event on December 21, 2012....
November 2nd- 24th, 2006: Air travel is restricted over much of Europe from North America, fueling economic concerns asthe price of fuel and food rises across Europe...
November 3rd, 2006: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Soviet Union by Sacha Baron Cohen, is released, sparking instant condemnation from Soviet officials...
November 3rd, 2006: 2 Finnish F-18s crash outside of Kauhava, Finland, sparking calls for limitations on air travel throughout the European Union...
November 4th, 2006: International airspace over Germany is shutdown by order of the government, amidst concerns of air safety.....
November 5th, 2006: International airspace over the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine, is shutdown, sparking civil unrest and violence the Soviet Union....
November 15th, 2006: Soviet officials call for a ban on Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Soviet Union in Moscow...
November 19th, 2006: Singer Enrique Iglesias and tennis player Anna Kournikova are secretly married in Santa Barbara, California; Celebrity guests include Kathy Konners, Jennifer Lopez and Federico Donovisco....
December 13th, 2006: Church of the Greys led by Whitley Streiber launches a lawsuit against the New York Post for "defamation of character", after accusations of prostitution, drug-trafficking, and arms dealing, sparking international attention in New York City, New York...
December 20th, 2006: Merill Lynch illegally seizes $800 million in hedge funds from Bear Stearn's as the funds begin to implode...
January 5th, 2007: White Noise: The Light starring Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhof, makes its hit debut, detailing fears that "electronic voice phenomena" is a pretext for an alien invasion....
January 9th, 2007: Professor Stephen Hawking is launched into space as a "space tourist" courtesy of Virgin Galactic in Rendlesham, England....
January 10th, 2007: Government under President Mamadou Sylla collapses in Conarky, Guinea, sparking tensions within the region...
February 2nd, 2007: Russian scientists led by Vladimir Popovkin announce the discovery of ice at the lunar Southern Pole, holding the promise of a viable water and fuel source for space travel....
February 6th, 2007: General Ibrahim Fofana comes to power in Conarky, Guinea in a military coup, amidst food shortages in the region....
February 16th, 2007: Countrywide Financial Corporation, the largest U.S. mortgage lender collapses, sparking an immediate financial selloff of assets...
February 25th, 2007: Eddie Murphy wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Dreamgirls in Hollywood, California...
March 3rd, 2007: White House officials report that they will only accept a "limited bailout" as Ameriquest, one of the nation's alrgest home loan lenders collapses in Washington D.C.,...
March 21st, 2007: Indonesian singer Anggun signs with "Inay's" Hear Music program, to promote Asian artists and music worldwide...
April 9, 2007: The highly controversial airport building site in Hamburg (Helmut-Schmidt-Flughafen), colloquially known as "Hamburg 21", is attacked with a car bomb. Tens of thousands of DM in damage are done. It is not clear, whether eco-terrorists or the radical right is responsible. Suspicion, though, immediately falls on the radical right wing.
April 10th, 2007: U.S. trade officials claim that the Soviet government has violated Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection laws and lax enforcement, during a trip to Moscow, amidst rising anti-American sentiment...
April 12, 2007: Eco-Terrorists calling themselves the GF (Green Front) claim responsibility for the Hamburg 21 attacks.
April 19, 2007: Joschka Fischer, Claudia Roth and Jürgen Trittin issue a joint declaration, distancing themselves from "militant behavior": "This is not our policy, and it does not help the environment to attack buildings and other objects percieved as a threat. It only discredits the Green Movement and thus is harmful to it's cause." They are nevertheless criticised for distancing so late.
April 23rd, 2007: Aurigny Air Services Flight #544 crashes off the Aldreney, Great Britain, killing 25 people, amidst rumors of a "UFO sighting"...
April 27th, 2007: Martial law is declared in Ankara, Turkey after military officials block election results showing Abdullah Gül as the winner of presidential elections...
May 15th, 2007: Professional golf player Tiger Woods announces his retirement from the game, after he is declared legally blind in Palo Alto, California....
May 18 2007: The HMS Queen Elizabeth (R10) is commissioned into the Royal Navy. The three Queen Elizabeth-class supercarriers are 1075 feet in length, 250 feet wide, 36 feet tall, and has a displacement of 83,500 tons. The Queen Elizabeth-class carriers have three catapults, two elevators, and can carry 86 fixed wing aircraft and helicopters made up of the Eurofighter Typhoon, F/A-18 Hornet, E-2 Hawkeye, S-3 Viking, C-2 Greyhound, Westland Apache, AW101 Merlin, and AW159 Wildcat. The Prince of Wales is expected by be commissioned sometime in late 2010 to early 2011. The Duke of York is expected to be commissioned in mid 2012. Also on this day, U.S. and Chinese trade representatives meet in Washington D.C., to discuss intellectual property rights and protections, amidst growing trade concerns....
June 2, 2007: After an attack on the Stendal NPP, which caused major damage and in which radioactivity was leaked to the environment, and after responsibility was claimed by the ANGA (Anti-Nuclear Green Army), Chancellor Joschka Fischer and Environmental minister Cem Özdemir had to resign.
June 4th, 2007: Communist government in Vientiane, Laos is overthrown in an American-backed military coup by General Vang Pao. Also on this day, U.S. Department of Agriculture warns that crops throughout the Atlantic Seaboard and especially the New England states have been devastated by the onset of frost event in summer months....
June 6th, 2007: State officials across New England report snow from Boston, MA; to Bangor, ME, sparking fears of the onset of an Ice Age.....
June 14th-16th, 2007: Johannesburg Riots; Riots erupt in Johannesburg, South Africa amidst protests over planned cuts to public servant pay by c. 12% in an effort to meet with austerity measures....
June 18th, 2007: Zeitgesit: The Movie written and directed by Peter Joseph makes its hit debut, popularizing the "Christ myth theory" and a number of conspiracy theory-based ideas, including banker control of the government....
June 21st, 2007: Soviet Union announces that it will be joining the European Economic Community (EEC) during trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland....
July 2nd, 2007: Members of the U.S. House of Representatives travel to Beijing, in an effort to evaluate whether to open the People's Republic of China to further trade...
July 16th-20th, 2007: Demonstrations are held in Hartford, CT; Cincinnati, OH; Detroit, MI; Minneapolis, MN; and San Francisco, CA, amidst fears of lost jobs to U.S./Chinese trade...
July 28th, 2007: Rap artist Engine Jammer sparks controversy after claiming that "the FOX Network is working against the African-American community" during an interview in Los Angeles, California...
August 15th, 2007: Anti-government riots erupt in Rangoon, calling for the overthrow of the military regime....
August 21st, 2007: Local officials in Minneapolis, Minnesota announce the transformation of the city into a self-sustaining domed arcology, sparking national attention....
August 27th, 2007: Canadian officials proudly proclaim "La Ville Souterraine" (RESO) self-sustaining domed arcology in Montreal, Quebec, sparking international attention....
September 1st, 2007: Arrests are made in the "Co-Op City Scandal" as Iris Herskowitz Baez and Nickhoulas Vitale are charged in a kickback scheme regarding the arcology program....
September 10th, 2007: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) falls c.20% in one day's trading as investors express their concerns over the faltering economy, citing the environmental crisis....
September 29th, 2007: Amidst growing concerns of food riots and civil unrest, the military regime collapses in Rangoon, Burma, sparking international attention and concern,...
October 5th, 2007: Travelex, along with the British Ministry of Finance announce the creation of "QUID" space currency in London, England....
October 6th, 2007: International Red Cross officials report the need to prevent a "humanitarian disaster" during a conference in Lucerne, Switzerland....
October 18, 2007: In Karachi, Pakistan, at least 139 people are killed and 450 injured as two bombs explode near a truck carrying Benazir Bhutto during her homecoming.
October 24th, 2007: Ivo A. Benda proclaims that 95% of the world's population is under the control of "Dark Saurians" during a rally in Prague, Czechoslovakia....
November 7th, 2007: "Tie You Up (Pain of Love)" album by Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut with singles "Tie You Up", "Feel On Baby" and "Pretty Beat Up", despite condemnation from LGBT organizations and the Roman Catholic Church....
November 13th, 2007: French General Strike led by Bernard Thibault threaten to overthrow the government amidst food shortages and crops failures in Paris, France, sparking international attention. Also on this day, In a shocking move, Shah Reza Pahlavi calls for a roundup of suspected LGBT persons as "foreign spies" and criminals in a televised address in Tehran, Iran....
November 14th-17th, 2007: German General Strike is led by Wolfgang Tiefensee shutdown the railways and public transportation throughout Germany, starting in Berlin....
November 17th 2007: President Sarkozy declares martial law in European France.
November 19th 2007: Generation Identitaire, a group of dissatisfied youths is founded (IOTL founded in 2011) They declare war against multi-culturalism and youth unemployment
November 20th 2007: President Köhler declares martial law in Germany. The Bundestag is dissolved until February 1st 2008.
November 22nd, 2007: Temperatures drop across the New York Tri-State area to c.-26 Fahrenheit, allowing people to drive on the ice from Brooklyn to Governor's Island....
November 27th, 2007: U.S. trade officials accuse the Soviet Union of violating copyright media laws, amidst worsening economic conditions in both countries during trade talks in Paris, France...
November 28th, 2007: The Amazing Spiderman (Marvel Comics) #544 is released, launching the "One More Day" storyline by J. Michael Straczynski, after Aunt May Parker dies...
December 1st 2007: Start of the Paris Riots. A police officer shoots a Algerian immigrant after he threatened the officer with a knife.
December 1st 2007: The main edition of "Tagesschau" is interrupted by angry protesters who claim that the "Tagesschau" is biased.Tagesschau is the most watched newscast in Germany.
December 4th 2007: Members of Generation Identitaire start to occupy several mosques in Paris and Lille. Causing an escalation of the Paris riots.
December 5th 2007: President Sarkozy bans Generation Identitaire. In Hamburg, Germany, are the buildings of "Der Spiegel" raided by the police. "Der Spiegel" reported that the dissolvement of the Bundestag was a distraction to ensure that her austerity measures could be passed.
December 6th: The general strike in France is prolonged untill December 31st, Generation Identitaire calls for the resignation of Nicholas Sarkozy. The French Newschannel BFM airs an interview of Bernard Thibault instead of an presidential speech of Sarkozy.
December 7th 2007: Mass demonstrations in Hamburg and in Berlin against Angela Merkel. The people demand of the lift of martial law, Bavaria calls the implentation of martial law without a war against the constitution.
December 8th 2007: The Soviet-Union and the USA demand an end of martial law in Germany and France.
December 10th 2007: A blizzard hits parts of the Netherlands and Germany. Many cities and villages are cut off from electricity.
December 13th 2007: Radical Muslims attack a meeting of Generation identitaire in Strasbourg. One attacker is killed. This incident causes riots in the Banlieus of Strasbourg, Paris, Lille, Bordeaux, Nice and Marseille. Leftist riots by communists break out in Toulouse and Nantes after it appears that the Prefect of these cities is supportive of Generation Identitaire.
Banlieu = suburban area where mostly poor immigrants live. IOTL there are lots of riots there too. Albeit not so extreme. Also on this day, Bart de Wever, leader of the Flemish Nationalist NVA, calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Verhofstad. He follows the example of Thibault and calls for an General Strike in Flanders.
December 14th 2007: 10:00 am: President Sarkozy threatens to use force against strikers who block the French transportsystem. As response Bernard Thibauld calls for a strike in the power plants and a shutdown of petrolstations. At 12:00 pm: The Socialist Party led by Segoléne Royal, announced they would openly support Bernard Thibauld. The Front National and the Greens follow suit. Only the small Parti Liberal supports Sarkozy. At 2:30 pm: The police raid the Flemish public broadcaster
VRT after their refusal to broadcast any newscast. The VRT did not want to break the strike. At the same time, a student demonstration in Louvain turns violent after frenchspeaking police officers (Sent from Liège) confiscated Flemish Flags....At 8:00pm: French protesters storm the buildings of France Télévisions and Radio France. All public broadcasting is suspended. At 11:45pm: The Flemish Parliament call for elections on the 15th of January 2008. The Belgian Federal Government calls this election illegal.
December 15th 2007: The Liberal Party of Guy Verhofstad forces him to step down as PM. New PM will be Elio di Rupo (PS)
December 16th, 2007: Soviet officials announce the creation of the "Crystal Island" self-sustaining domed arcology, designed by Norman Foster, in Moscow, sparking international attention...
December 17, 2007: The TOTAL headquaters in La Défense were nearly destroyed.
December 18, 2007: The IGA (International Green Army, but basically the same group) claimed responsibility
December 19, 2007: After demonstrations against the "Ökos" (Ecos) in major cities turned into riots, newly-elected Chancellor Claudia Roth lost a vote-of-no-confidence. New elections are to be held on February 3.
December 22nd, 2007: Connelly directed by Oliver Stone, starring Anthony Hopkins, makes its hit debut, fueling conspiracy theories about the assassinations of JFK and Jimmy Carter, amidst great controversy...
December 27th, 2007: The Amazing Spiderman (Marvel Comics) #545 by J. Michael Straczynski is released, causing the entire Marvel Universe to be "reimagined". Also on this day, At an election rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Bhutto experiences a third attempt on her life since her return to Pakistan.
December 31st, 2007: "Inay's" Filipino food restaurant announces that it has 15,756 restaurants worldwide, during a press conference in San Francisco, California....
February 3, 2008. The CDU/CSU wins the elections in a landslide. It even manages to clinch 50,3 percent of the vote and, thus, an absolute majority. The continued ecoterrorism discredited the Green Movement, the Green Party only gets 0,9 percent. The left also suffers heavily, getting 2,1 percent only. As a new force, the KAP (Konventionell-Atomare Partei), centered around exactly the opposite to what the Greens wanted, enter the Bundestag with 5,9 %. All parties vow to simultaneously fight the "brown and green threats".
February 12th-18th, 2008: United Nations General Assembly meets in New York City, New York regarding the work of the "Special Political Committee" and the issue of human-extraterrestrial contact....
March 7, 2008: The "Atomausstiegsgesetz", ratified in early 2007, gets fully repealed with the votes of CDU, FDP, CSU and KAP.
March 8th, 2008: Wan Azizah Wan Ismail becomes the first female Prime Minister for Malaysia, sparking international attention.....
March 11, 2008: The Calder Hal NPP in Great Britain is destroyed (and suffers a total meltdown) by a hijacked plane. The ANF (Anti-Nuclear Forces, but still the same group) claims responsibility the next day.
March 20th, 2008: World Trade Organization (WTO) rules that Soviet trade regulations regarding auto parts violate the provisions of the WTO obligations, sparking protests in Moscow....
April 1st, 2008: Financial crisis begins to spread to Asia, as the instability caused by European financial crisis triggers massive selloffs...
April 11th, 2008: Wall Street investors report the worst economic volatility in 112 years, sparking concerns of a worldwide economic meltdown.....
April 21, 2008: Benazir Bhutto becomes the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.
May 15th, 2008: National Council of the Union of Burma launches an armed insurrection against the military regime in Napydiyaw, Mynanmar...
June 21st-25th, 2008: Moscow Lights; TASS reports 11 orange glowing lights, recorded by people on cellphones, cameras, et al. over Moscow, sparking concern across the globe...
July 9th, 2008: South African government announces that it will legalize same-sex marriages, sparking international attention and concern in Johannesburg, South Africa....
July 11th, 2008: Outlander starring Jim Caviezel, directed by Frederick Schoen, is a major hit, detailing a science fiction spin on the legend of Beowulf...
July 20th, 2008: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (UPN-TV) starring Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day, brings some of the highest ratings for the UPN-TV network....
July 29th, 2008: Rocket Racing League (RRL), in association with Monster Energy Drinks, launches the Monster AirVenture Race in Oshkosh, Washington...
August 9, 2008: The Japanese government removes Article 9 from its constitution.
September 3rd, 2008: Rap artist Engine Jammer launches a protest outside the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Saint Paul, Minnesota....
September 5th, 2008: Singer Miley Cyrus dies in a car accident in Santa Barbara, California, amidst rumors of drug and alcohol abuse, sparking national attention....
September 15th, 2008: Soviet officials demand an appeal of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, citing labor and environmental regulations in Moscow, sparking international attention....
November 4th, 2008: Mitt Romney wins the U.S. presidential elections, amidst concerns over the economy and foreign affairs.
Mitt Romney (Rep) 45%
Howard Dean (Dem) 40%
Sarah Palin (Tea) 12%
November 5th, 2008: Proposition 8 rejected; California approves same-sex marriage, sparking international attention and concern...
December 4th, 2008: "Masdar City" self-sustaining domed arcology is completed outside of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, sparking international attention and concern...
December 22, 2008: The ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991) is commissioned into the Republic of Korea Navy. It is the first of six ships of its class and the third stage of the RoK’s KDX program to build modern destroyers.
January 2nd, 2009: Justice League of America features the Justice League of America (JLA) clashing with the forces of "Earth-D"...
January 4, 2009: The Indian Ministry of Defense signs an agreement to purchase eight Lockheed Martin P-8I Neptune maritime patrol aircraft to replace their aging Tupolev Tu-142s.
January 10, 2009: The USS William F. Halsey (CVN-77) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
January 12th 2009: After 16 years Fox cancels Conan and Andy to replace it with local news and Fox NewsDay
January 31, 2009: The USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is decommissioned after the commissioning of the USS William F. Halsey (CVN-77).
February 6th, 2009: Scientists led by Imre Friedmann uncover evidence of fossil remains of life on the Martian surface, based on meteorite fragments from the lunar surface at Mare Tranquilitas....
February 28, 2009: The INS Vikrant (R24) is laid down in Kochi, India. The Vikrant will be the first of a pair of indigenous aircraft carriers developed by India.
March 4th, 2009: "Do You Feel Loved?" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, with hit singles, "Wake Up Dead Man", "Do You Feel Loved" and "Mofo"....
March 12th, 2009: The Daily Show (ABC-TV) hosted by Jon Stewart sparks controversy, after Stewart launches an on-air criticism of the policies of the corporate sponsors of the ABC-TV network....
March 16th, 2009: "Zeitgeist" movement members with c. 75,000 people led by Peter Joseph hold a massive rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York...
April 2nd 2009: The Sukhoi SU-34 enters squadron wide service and begins to replace the SU-24 as the main Soviet ground attack and interdiction aircraft.
April 28th, 2009: Hezbollah guerillas led by Hassan Nasrallah kill the Egyptian Presidet and 5 members of the Cabinet, sparking martial law in Cairo, Egypt...
May 6th, 2009: Shah Reza Pahlavi meets with U.S. President Mitt Romney, caling for greater U.S./Iranian ties, sparking protests in Washington D.C.,....
May 16th, 2009: Actress Jodie Foster and Cydney Bernard are married in a marriage ceremony in Los Angeles, California, sparking international attention...
May 19th, 2009: Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus starring Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson, makes its hit film debut....
June 12th, 2009: Mir-Hossein Mousavi wins presidential elections, under tight internatonal inspection in Tehran, Iran....
July 7th, 2009: Pro-democracy leader Lech Walesa praises the music of Kathy Konners, during her European tour, meeting secretly with the leader in Berlin, Germany....
August 18th, 2009: Sex Pot starring Rollin Perry and Seth Cassell, makes its hit film debut....
August 25th, 2009: Actor Alec Baldwin (D-CT) announces his bid for the U.S. Senate in Bridgeport, Connecticut, sparking national attention....
September 18th, 2009: The Girl Who Played With Fire starring Dolph Lundgren, makes its hit debut, reviving the actor's career...
September 30th, 2009: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) under the leadership of Juan Goytisolo of Spain, announces the creation of "Heritage Sites" whereby international monuments and historical sites are to be preserved, in the face of a possible Ice Age....
October 2, 2009: Stargate Universe premieres on television. It will last five seasons and have 110 episodes.
October 24th, 2009: German political officials call for a ban on the activities , after members of the Church of the Greys protest before the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany..
November 13, 2009: The USS America (CVN-78) is laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia. The America will be 1100 feet long (335.28 meters in length), be powered by 3 PMBR 120 MW pebble bed nuclear reactors (license built by General Electric), four electromagnetic catapults, three elevators, and a total crew of 3,360. The planned air wing of the America-class will be 22 F-14E Super Tomcats, 24 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, 24 F-35C Lightning IIs, 2 C-2B Greyhounds, 4 E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes, 4 S-3B Vikings, 4 MH-60R Seahawks, and 4 MH-60S Knighthawks. The USS America is expected to replace the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) after it is launched in late 2014-eary 2015.
November 17th, 2009: The Daily Show (ABC-TV) sparks national controversy after it interviews the Vice-President sparking national attention...
December 13th, 2009: Followers of Whiteley Streiber spark controversy, with their religious ministry and its UFO beliefs, during a visit to Jerusalem, sparking civil unrest and violence....
December 20th, 2009: Carter directed by Oliver Stone, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Connelly, popularizes the conspiracy theories surronding the 1981 death of President Jimmy Carter....
December 21st, 2009: Mexico's federal government legalizes marijuana, despite heavy pressure from American leaders, sparking international attention,...
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Here is the final draft of the ATL so far:
August 15th, 1977: Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University then located at Ohio Wesleyan University's Perkins Observatory, Delaware, Ohio. The signal bore all of the hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-Solar System origin. It lasted for the full 72-second duration that Big Ear observed it, but was never detected again. The message was detected in the Sagitarius Constellation, roughly 122 light-years from Earth, making any conversation or exchange of information impossible, but the effect was clear, humanity was no longer the sentient life form in the universe...
August 16th, 1977: President Jimmy Carter, after receiving a briefing by his scientific advisors announces the radio signal to the world as a "profound discovery, which serves notice that we are not the sole heirs of creation..."
August 16th, 1977: Singer Elvis Presley proclaims that the signal is "divine providence", running onto his lawn and going into prayer at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee...
August 18th, 1977: Senator William Proxmire (D-WI) voices his scepticism, stating about the president's speech,"It's the best argument yet for chopping NASA's funding to the bone .... I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy..."
August 20th, 1977: Although conceived and planned since the late 1960s, the Voyager 2 launch gains one of its highest television ratings for NASA, with the launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
August 21st, 1977: Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) and William Proxmire (D-WI) demand an investigation into the "WOW! signal".
August 25th, 1977: A Senate Committee is formed to investigate the "WOW! signal".
August 26th, 1977: Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell states during a rally in Virginia Beach, Virginia,"Without Divine interference we are alone in the universe and without Christ we are—and should be—terrified. The gospel is as relevant as ever..."
August 27th 1977: Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev says in a speech "It is clear that we are not alone in this universe, but there are fellow comrades elsewhere who like all sapient species must still abide by Karl Marx's great insights. I can but hope there the withering away of the State has already been accomplished".
August 30th, 1977: Mayor Abraham Beame is shot and killed by Aron Kay at the Cooper Union in New York City, New York, sending shockwaves nationwide....
September 3, 1977: All Canadian road signs are converted to metric units.
September 11th, 1977: Ruth Norman (a.k.a. "Spaceship Ruthy"), Unarian Academy of Sciences, appears on The Tonight Show (NBC-TV), telling Johnny Carson to expect alien landings "before the end of the year..." in Los Angeles, California. Also on this day, Following promising ratings the miniseries Washington Behind Closed Doors gets additional episodes to finish the shows fictionalized version of Watergate and Nixon's Downfall. The show stars Cliff Robertson, Jason Robbards, and Robert Vaughn as fictional versions of Nixon, Halderman, and the CIA Director.
September 27, 1977: Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau is coerced by Robert Stanfield and Ed Broadbent to purchase the decommissioned fleet carrier HMS Eagle (R05) from the British government. The Eagle is towed to Saint John, Newfoundland where it will begin its rebuild at the Saint John Shipbuilding facilities.
September 29th, 1977: Carl Sagan appears on The Tonight Show (NBC-TV) with host Johnny Carson, discussing the importance of "first contact" in Los Angeles, California....
October 1, 1977: The Canadian government purchases 64 A-7E Corsair II attack fighters, 8 E-2B Hawkeye carrier based AEW aircraft, and 80 S-2F Tracker carrier based maritime patrol planes for the Canadian Forces Maritime Command. The government also looks into getting a carrier based multirole fighter as part of the NFA.
October 14th, 1977: Anti-gay conservative activist Anita Bryant is shot and killed in Des Moines, Iowa, shocking many Americans , sparking civil unrest and violence nationwide....
October 18, 1977: The Nimitz-class super carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is commissioned into United States Navy as the second Nimitz class carrier.
October 27th, 1977: Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) under Yasser Arafat declares independence as the "Confederation of Palestine" in Ramallah...
November 24. 1977: Sterling Lyon becomes 17th premier of Manitoba, replacing Edward Schreyer.
November 25th, 1977: Israeli troops begin withdrawal from the West Bank in Ramallah, establishing the borders for the Palestinian state...
December 13th, 1977: United Nations General Assembly Resolution #32/91 is passed in New York City, New York calling upon the Israeli government to respect the borders of the Palestinian state....
December 19th, 1977: United Nations officials call for the distribution of humanitarian aid and relief in Palestine, sparking concerns by Israeli military over possible arms shipments...
December 22nd 1977: Ayatollah Khomeini dies in an automobile accident in Najaf.
December 25th, 1977: Professor Carl Sagan speaks on the importance of the radio signals, during a lecture at the Royal Institution in London, England...
January 21st, 1978: Anti-Communist leader Oleksa Hirnyk launches protests against the Soviet government in Lvov, Ukraine SSR...
January 26th, 1978: California State Assembly passes the Zero Emissions Mandate (ZEM) in Sacramento, California requiring that 2% of vehicles be Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs) by 1986 and 10% ZEVs by 1991. GM and Ford call the measure "socialist tripe"....
February 1st, 1978: Jerry Falwell warns of a possible assassination attempt against President Jimmy Carter, warning that UFOs are a "Satanic tool of deception to cnfuse and confound mankind", during an interview in Virginia Beach, Virginia...
March 6th, 1978: Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler is shot and killed outside the court house in Lawrenceville, Georgia by white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin....
March 17th, 1978: Ufologist Nigel Watson warns of a possible chemical or nuclear accident, during a press conference in London, England, claiming to have translated the 1977 radio signals...
April 3rd, 1978: Star Wars wins the Oscars for Best Film and Best Director for George Lucas at Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles, California. Many attribute the win to the fascination in space created by the "Wow!" signal....
April 24th, 1978: High Rollers (NBC-TV) hosted by Alek Trebek, makes its hit television series debut in Burbank, California....
May 1st 1978: Shah Reza Pahlvani announces extensive political reforms, hoping to stop protests against his regime...
May 19th, 1978: Victor Wouk releases 1974 documents from the EPA revealing the viability of "hybrid vehicles" to New York Times....
May 27th, 1978: Jerry Falwell proclaims that UFOs are the "transports of demons fom hell" during a televised sermon in Virginia Beach, Virginia...
June 15th 1978: Rev. Jim Jones of the People's Temple cult and Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles of the Heaven's Gate cult meet at Jonestown to form a new UFO-based cult Messenger of Heaven.
June 23rd, 1978: Musa Mamut leads protests for Crimean Tartars in Lvov, Ukraine SSR, sparking calls for greater autonomy...
July 25th, 1978: Jerry Falwell proclaims that the lack of evidence of life on other worlds across the solar system as "proof of divine providence.."
August 12th, 1978: The Last Temptation of Christ starring Christopher Walken as Jesus of Nazareth, sparks international controversy upon release...
September 29th, 1978: General Edmundo Meneses seizes control of the government in a military coup in Managua, Nicaragua...
November 5 1978: Dan White commits suicide and leaves a note saying "The arrival of the Greater Beings are imminent-I must come to them".
November 12th, 1978: Scientists question the "Wow!" signal during a press conference in Washington D.C., calling it a "political football"....
20th November 1978: A second signal is received by the Big ear telescope and numerous other similar facilities the world over including the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Bad Münstereifel, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. The signal clearly transmitting the first 24 Prime numbers removing much doubt from the scientific community that the original WoW signal could be explained by a natural phenomena.
November 24th, 1978: 5,000 people gather in Warrenville, Illinois, after Guido Franch proclaims a UFO landing. Most people leave in disappointment when nothing happens.....
December 5th, 1978: Wei Jingsheng leads pro-democracy rallies in Tiananmen Square calling for the "Fifth Moderniztion" (democracy) in Beijing, China...
December 12th, 1978: Fortunato Zanfretta of Torriglia, Italy proclaims UFO the possibility of UFO landings, after an alleged UFO abduction, during an interview on Italian television....
December 18th-24th, 1978: United Nations General Assembly establishes "Special Political Committee" to deal with the issue of human-extraterrestrial contact in New York City, New York...
January 1st, 1979: Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping warns President Jimmy Carter, "Children who don't listen have to be spanked." regarding both pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square and the border with Vietnam...
January 7th, 1979: Chinese-backed Cambodian leader Pol Pot launches a crackdown on the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party in Phnom Penh, Cambodia...
January 17, 1979: Edward Richard Schreyer becomes the 65th Governor General of Canada succeeding Jules Léger who had been governor general since January 14, 1974.
January 26th, 1979: Tiananmen Square Massacre; 27th and 38th Armies of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) clear Tiananmen Square, killing 241 people, and placing 2,000 people under arrest....
February 7th, 1979: Josef Mengele (a.k.a. "Angel of Death") is captured by Elie Weisel in Sao Paulo, Brazil....
February 13th, 1979: In a televised address, President Jimmy Carter publicly condemns the actions of the People's Republic of China, stating that it is not "an internal matter"....
February 14, 1979: The Audacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) is decommissioned leaving the United States, Canada and France as the only members of NATO with fleet carriers. The Ark Royal is put into reserve in case it needs to be brought back into service instead of the original plan of having it sold for scrap.
February 17th, 1979: 200,000 Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops enter into Vietnam under General Xu Shiyou...
March 6th, 1979: Chinese PLA forces announce the capture of the government in Hanoi, Vietnam, sparking tensions with the Soviet Union....
March 23rd, 1979: President Jimmy Carter orders the deployment of the U.S. 7th Fleet into the South China Sea in an effort to monitor Chinese operations...
March 28, 1979: Three Mile Island suffers a complete nuclear meltdown.
April 3rd, 1979: Phoenix Solar and Electric 500 Rally is held in Phoenix, Arizona, promoting Zero Emissions Vehicles (ZEVs) from across the globe....
April 14th, 1979: Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) states," I have never seen what I would call a UFO, but I have intelligent friends who have..."
May 22, 1979: The Progressive Conservative Party wins a majority in the 1979 Canadian Federal election with 150 seats. The Liberal Party has 90 seats, the NDP has 36, and the Social Credt Party has 6 seats. With a majority, PC party leader Joe Clark becomes the 16th Prime Minister of Canada. It is a position he will hold until June 1987.
May 25th, 1979: Prometheus directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skeritt, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Hom and Yaphet Koto, offers a pessimistic view of the "Wow! Signal" warning that it might actually be a warning than an invitation...
June 2nd 1979: In the UK, the government announces "the need for Britain to take into account the current issues facing the world and accordingly respond. Namely by expanding British interests in space". Research into the sea dragon rocket is made a priority and it seems that Britain is going to attempt an independent space programme.
June 7th, 1979: Bhaskara-I fired into space from Sriharikota, India, the first communications satellite for India, sparking concern over a possible arms race...
June 14th, 1979: Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón begin trafficking cocaine into the United States, in an effort to back the Meneses regime in Managua....
June 19th 1979: Lemoniz Nuclear Meltdown; ETA Basque terrorists trigger a nuclear meltdown in the Lemoniz Nuclear Power Station in Lemoniz, Spain...
June 21st, 1979: San Diego Riots; Riots erupt in San Diego, California after Mark Block claims a massive UFO landing outside the city limits....
July 3rd, 1979: Under secrecy, President Jimmy Carter signs the first presidential directive aiding Vietnamese forces against the People's Republic of China in Washington D.C.,...
July 16th, 1979: Iraqi President Ahmad Hasan Bakr signs the Iraq-Syria Agreement in Damascus, Syria, sparking tensions throughout the region...
August 5th, 1979: Cattle are found mutilated near Hayward, Wisconsin. Cows are missing various body parts.
August 10th, 1979: ISRO successfully launches the SLV-3 with Rohini Technology Payload on board into orbit, launching India into the role of space-faring nation...
August 15th, 1979: Apocalypse Now starring Harrison Ford, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, makes its hit debut, many attribute the success to the Chinese invasion of Vietnam...
August 16, 1979: 13th Prime Minister of Canada and former Progressive Conservative Party leader John G. Diefenbaker dies in his study.
September 28th, 1979: President Jimmy Carter releases his Space Policy Initiative (SNI) during a Rose Garden speech in Washington D.C.,...
October 26th, 1979: South Korean President Park Chung-hee survives an assassination attempt on his life in Seoul, South Korea, fueling tensions with the military....
November 9th, 1979: Robert Taylor claims to have been abducted by extraterrestrials after a UFO sighting in Livingston, Scotland, sparking national attention and concern...
November 11th, 1979: ETA Basque terrorists demand independence for Basque territories or they will trigger a meltdown at the Equipos Nucleares plant in Maliano, Spain...
November 17th, 1979: Unabomber bombs American Airlines Flight #444, Boeing 727 blows up over O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois....
November 26th, 1979: The Cergy-Pontoise Three; Jean-Pierre Prévot and three other men appear before the press claiming to have been abducted by aliens in Cergy-Pontoise, France, sparking international attention and concern...
12 December 1979: With increased interest in space the United Kingdom reforms its space agency expanding once neglected facilities at Woomera. For this expansion of the facility Australia is made a junior partner in the new Royal Space Agency.
December 24th, 1979: European Space Agency (ESA) announces the launch of the CAT-1 satellite from Kourou, French Guiana, launching a third power into the "Space Race"....
January 3rd 1980: The Royal Space Agency is founded. Initial testing of the Sea Dragon rocket pass expectations. What will potentially be the biggest rocket in existance is given extra funding in order to begin further research into the project. Many in the British public are supportive of this, and a number of private investors offer to help fund the Agency.
4 January 1980: Construction begins of Soviet Shuttles as part of the Buran program an attempt to match the US capabilities. The shuttle is however lighter with smaller engines on the shuttle itself it only has a slightly smaller payload as its US counterpart, relying much more on its booster rocket to reach orbit.
February 15th, 1980: Famous musicians Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb of the Bee-Gees meet with religious leader Eduard Albert Meier , after proclaiming psychic contact with alien beings in Bülach, Switzerland....
March 17th, 1980: Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on Saturday Night Live (NBC-TV) in New York City, New York. In an opening sketch, they demand the $10,000 from Lorne Micheals. The appearence fuels rumors of a possible reunion...
March 19, 1980: The Imperial Iranian Air Force begins getting the first of its order of 160 F-16A/B Fighting Falcon multirole fighters.
March 24th, 1980: Father Óscar Romero survives an assassination attempt by government troops in San Salvador, El Salvador, sparking tensions between the ruling elite and the Roman Catholic Church...
March 28th, 1980: The Changeling horror film starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere makes its hit debut, based on the fear that the alien signals are actually coming from a supernatural source....
April 1st, 1980: Iraqi Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is assassinated by members of the Pro-Iran al-Da‘wa Party in Najaf, sparking riots nationwide...
April 8th, 1980: Sectarian violence erupts after President Ahmad Hasan Bakr announces meeting with Shah Reza Pahlavi in Tehran, Iran....
April 10, 1980: The Canadian goverments announces that the F-14 Tomcat and F/A-18 Hornet are the winners of the New Fighter Aircraft program. The Canadian government orders 96 F-14A Tomcats (equipped with the Pratt & Whitney F401-PW-400 turbofans instead of the TF-30s) and 144 F/A-18 Hornet multirole fighters to replace the obselete CF-101 Voodoos, CF-104 Starfighters, and CF-116 Freedom Fighters.
April 12, 1980: Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope run across Canada in support of cancer research starting in St. Johns, Newfoundland with the intent of running the length of Canada to Victoria, British Columbia. A major PR coup for the CF is done when the Forces' offer to provide a helicopter to support Terry Fox in his attempt to run across the country.
May 14, 1980: Work is started on a bridge spanning the Abegweit Passage of the Northumberland Strait connecting Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick.
May 21st, 1980: Black Angel directed by Roger Christian, makes its hit film debut, with a revival of the fantasy film genre....
June 6th 1980: An engine test for the HOTOL project ends in disaster, with a large detonation and the death of a research assistant. The public begin to wonder why the Royal Space Agency is backing this project.
June 9th, 1980: Comedian Richard Pryor dies in Los Angeles, California, after free-basing cocaine and accidentally setting himself on fire....
July 11, 1980: The British light carrier HMS Invincible (R05) is commissioned into the Royal Navy. The Invincible is 775 feet (236.22 meters) in length and carries 36 fixed wing aircraft and helicopters (in a mix of 24 Sea Harriers, 6 EH101 Merlin multirole helicopters, and 6 Sea King ASW helicopters).
July 18th, 1980: Indian government officials announce the launch of the Rohini D-1 satellite into orbit from Sriharinkota, India, sparking international attention and concern,....
July 31st, 1980: Musicians Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb of the Bee-Gees establish a chain of starting in Los Angeles, California, proclaiming the idea of psychic contact with extraterrestrials....
August 26, 1980: The Canadian government announces a plan to build 30 new destroyers and frigates to replace Canada's aging fleet of surface combatants.
September 1, 1980: Terry Fox's attempt to run the length of Canada is cut short due to spreading cancer at Thunder Bay, Ontario. The next day, Fox held a tearful press conference during which he announced that his cancer had returned and spread to his lungs. He was forced to end his run after 143 days and 5,373 kilometers (3,339 mi).
September 4th, 1980: Iranian Shah Reza Pahlavi launches major offensive in the south of Iraq, sparking a larger conflict in the region...
September 25th, 1980: John Bonham, lead drumer for Ledd Zeppelin is hospitalized in Windsor, England after nearly suffocating from his own vommit...
October 3rd, 1980: "Talk is Cheap" by Elvis Presley makes its hit musical debut, signalling a musical comeback in Memphis, Tennessee...
November 4 1980: James Earl Carter is narrowly re-elected President of the United States, defeating the Republican nominee George HW Bush. Also on this day, California voters approve the Proposition 8, backed by the Electric Auto Association (EAA), granting a $1,000 tax credit for electric vehicles...
November 10th, 1980: Iranian military forces seize control of Basra and Mandali, Iraq, with heavy resistance by guerilla forces...
November 11, 1980: The motion picture Star Trek II is a major hit. The plot deals with the crew of the Enterprise traveling back in time to went interstellar contact was first made with Earth. Source material for the film comes mainly from Ray Bradbury and the book Chariot of the Gods?.
December 3rd, 1980: Elvis Presley emerges from the Betty Ford Clinic in Los Angeles, California saying that he will remain substance free...
December 8th, 1980: Singer John Lennon is hospitalized after being shot by Mark David Chapman in New York City, New York....
December 11, 1980: A mistake in the Alabama delegation 'accidentally' cast their ballots for Jimmy Carter / George Wallace, throwing the election of the Vice President to the United States Senate. With the Democrats holding a majority in the Senate, the Carter Administration does not try to challenge these 'accidental' results.
December 21st, 1980: On an episode of Cosmos (PBS-TV), Carl Sagan, openly questions what huamnity's response should be regarding the alien radio signals...
December 26th, 1980: Lord Hill Norton briefs Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Bristol stating,"The evidence that there are objects which have been seen in our atmosphere, and even on terra firma, that cannot be accounted for either as man-made objects or as any physical force or effect known to our scientists seems to me to be overwhelming... A very large number of sightings have been vouched for by persons whose credentials seem to me unimpeachable. It is striking that so many have been trained observers, such as police officers and airline or military pilots. Their observations have in many instances... been supported either by technical means such as radar or, even more convincingly, by... interference with electrical apparatus of one sort or another..."
December 29th, 1980: Cash-Landrum Incident; Residents of New Caney, Texas report the crash of an extraterrestrial UFO, sparking a massive flood of tourists and curiosity seekers to the region....
January 8, 1981: Several Southern Democrats defect and narrowly elect Republican Vice Presidential nominee John Connally Vice President of the United States.
January 16, 1981: Several retired members of the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron and 603 Squadron get together and found the Supermarine Aerospace Corporation in Greenwich, Britain.
January 18th, 1981: United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution #35/34 condemning Chinese military actions in Vietnam....
March 6, 1981: Work is started on the Fort McMurray Nuclear Power Plant in Fort McMurray, Alberta.
March 30, 1981: John Hinckley, Jr. assassinates President James Earl Carter, Jr (Democratic). Vice President John Connally (Republican) succeeds to the Presidency, amid protests.
April 11th, 1981: President John Connelly gives the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) a green light to arm anti-Communist guerillas via the heroin trade through Burma. Also on this day, Attorney General Griffin Bell announces that at least 7 people associated with John Hinckley Jr., have mysteriously died since the assassination....
April 19th, 1981: Secret Service officials obtain the autopsy reports from the assassination of President Jimmy Carter, sparking national attention...
May 1st, 1981: FBI and Secret Service agents in Quantico, Virginia report that they are having extreme difficulty recreating the circumstances of the Carter assassination....
May 11th, 1981: The Beatles led by Paul McCartney and John Lennon announce a reunion tour in New York City, New York...
May 13th, 1981: Pope John Paul II is assassinated by Mehmet Ali Ağca in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican City,sparking international outrage....
May 24th, 1981: Los Angeles Times begins posting the "Capricorn Assassination Theory", claiming an assassination based on space program policies....
May 27, 1981: Kouroush (D10) is commissioned into the Iranian Navy as the first of the Kidd-class guided missile destroyers.
May 30th, 1981: Major General Abul Monjur overthrows the government with a military coup in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sparking tensions throughout the region...
June 14, 1981: The Huaynaputina volcano erupts in full force, with a VEI 6.
June 28, 1981: Terry Fox dies at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, British Columbia. In Canada, flags are at half staff that day.
July 1, 1981: Prime Minister Joe Clark announces the creation of the Royal Canadian Space Agency.
July 17th, 1981: Arthur starring Farrah Fawcett and Dudley Moore, makes its hit film debut. Also on this day, The government of British Columbia named a 2,639-metre (8,658 foot) peak in the Rocky Mountains after Terry Fox.
July 30, 1981: The 83-kilometre (52 mi) section of the Trans-Canada Highway in Ontario where Terry Fox was forced to end his run, was renamed in his honor.
August 11, 1981: The Mackenzie-class destroyer escort HMCS Qu’Appelle is renamed HMCS Terry Fox after recently deceased humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist Terry Fox.
August 29, 1981: Daryush (D11) is commissioned into the Iranian Navy as the second of the Kidd-class guided missile destroyers.
August 30th, 1981: Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar calls for massive political reforms from Shah Reza Pahlavi, during a rally in Tehran, Iran...
31 August 1981: The Royal Space Agency officially backs the HOTOL project, an ambitious attempt at a re-usable unmanned space plane using air-breathing rocket engines designed by Alan Bond.
October 6th, 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat narrowly survives an assassination atempt, during a military review parade in Cairo....
October 18th, 1981: Widow Rose Carter testifies before the U.S. Senate regarding the assassination of President Jimmy Carter, sparking international attention in Washington D.C.,...
October 20, 1981: The Australian government purchases 80 F/A-18A/B Hornets and 60 F-15A/B Eagles for the Royal Australian Air Force to replace the Royal Australian Air Force’s Dassault Mirage III fighters.
October 24, 1981: Nader (D12) is commissioned into the Iranian Navy as the third of the Kidd-clas guided missile destroyers.
October 27th, 1981: Billy Carter, brother to President Jimmy Carter, narrowly survives a plane crash in South Plains, Georgia, sparking conspiracy theories....
December 12th, 1981: Norwin Meneses and Danilo Blandón launch political campaign to support the regime of General Edmundo Meneses at major American universities, starting in San Francisco, California...
December 13th, 1981: Soviet troops enter into Warsaw, despite the actions of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, sparking international condemnation....
December 15th, 1981: "I Believe" album by Elvis Presley, makes its hit debut, including singles "Jesus In My Soul", "I Was There When It Happened"...
December 17th, 1981: Fighting erupts between Palestine and Israel, as Syria arms Hezbollah guerillas along the Golan Heights region....
December 20, 1981: The South African amphibious assault ships SAS Table Mountain and SAS Transvaal are launched from the Sandock Austal shipyards in Durban, South Africa.
January 5th, 1982: Representative Charlie Wilson (D-TX) calls for an expansion of covert aid to guerilla forces in Vietnam...
January 23rd, 1982: Carlos Cabezas begins trafficking cocaine from Nicaragua into San Francisco, Caifornia through SFO International Airport....
January 29th, 1982: United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution #36/37 condemning Chinese military invasion of Vietnam, sparking international attention,..
March 3rd, 1982: FBI agents announce the arrest of a possible "second gunman" in San Francisco, California, sparking national attention and controversy...
March 8th, 1982: New York Times reports the discovery of 2 bank accounts for John Hinckley Jr., in Chevy Chase, Maryland with funds totalling c. $7 million, fueling conspiracy theories...
March 13, 1982: The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is commissioned into the United States Navy. Also on this day, Anoshirvan (D13) is commissioned into the Iranian Navy as the last of the Kidd-class guided missile destroyers.
March 24th, 1982: Abdus Sattar is named acting president after protests overthrow the military regime in Chittagong, Bangladesh....
March 31st, 1982: The Academy (NBC-TV) sitcom makes its debut starring Jimmy Baio, Peter Frechette, and David Raynr...
April 6th, 1982: William O'Neil proclaims to have isolated the extraterrestrial radio signals with a device called the "Aliencom", during a press conference in Washington D.C., sparking national attention....
April 20th, 1982: Iranian forces destroy the oil refiners in Khonqin and Mandali creating one of the largest environmental disasters in the region's history...
April 29th, 1982: Iraqi military forces fail to capture Khoramshahr and Abadan, amidst heavy casualties...
May 4, 1982: The HMCS Eagle (CV-23) is launched from Saint John Shipbuilding. It is now 860 feet (262.128 meters) in length, has a 12 degree flight deck, a new bridge tower (based on the design of the CVA-01 superstructure), three. new steam catapults (taken from retired Essex-class carriers), new boilers, improved HVAC systems, and computerized engineering controls.
June 11th, 1982: Watch the Skies! film directed by Steven Spielberg, warns of a possible invasion of extra-terrestrials, becoming a major blockbuster....
June 19th, 1982: Washington Post reports that General Alexander Haig, a vocal opponent of many of Carter's policies, was photographed outside the hotel where Carter was shot, just minutes after the assassination...
June 20, 1982: HMS Illustrious (R06) is commissioned into the Royal Navy.
June 24th, 1982: UFO rallies are held in major cities across the globe after self-proclaimed psychic Barry Andrews proclaims, "The mass landing will take place in all the world's capitals,...."
June 25, 1982: Herbert Prohaska and Walter Schachner fail to be informed of the rigging attempt, so when Bruno Pezzey passes to Prohaska (believing this is safe), Prohaska passes the ball to Schachner who is not defended and Schachner scores in the 58th minute. Thus Algeria and Austria advance.
Thus Austria lands in the Anglo-Spanish group and England wins. England then goes on to win their second World cup, 3-2 in the Semifinal against France and 2-1 against Italy.
August 1st, 1982: Government of President David Arap Moi is overthrown in a military coup led by General Hezekiah Ochuka in Nairobi, Kenya...
August 11th, 1982: Pan Am Flight #830, Boeing 747 blows up after a terrorist bomb detonates outside of Honolulu, Hawaii killing 264 people...
October 2, 1982: The Falklands War kicks off when Argentina invades the Falklands Islands. During the 74-day war, the HMS Hermes is sunk by Argentine fighters while the British get revenge by capturing the General Belgrano and sinking the Veinticinco de Mayo. The war ends with surrender of Argentina and the Falklands in British hands. The ARA General Belgrano is stationed in the Thames River near Buckingham Palace as a war trophy.
October 16th, 1982: Elvis Presley meets with President John Connelly in Washington D.C.,...
October 22nd, 1982: Rambo: First Blood premiers. It stars Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, and Richard Crenna. It is about a Vietnam vet getting hassled by a local police department and fighting back. It is a block buster
Octobr 31st, 1982: Wayne Aho proclaims UFO landings, during the Halloween episode of Real People (NBC-TV)....
November 10th, 1982: Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev dies in Moscow, Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin is chosen as his successor...
November 14th, 1982: Gossip starring Simon Callow and Gary Oldman, makes its hit film debut,...
January 17th, 1983: Nicaraguan crime lord Carlos Cabezas is brutally executed at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, California after attempting to challenge Norwin Meneses for the cocaine trade....
March 9, 1983: The first British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3 is delivered to the Royal Air Force as part of its program to modernize its armed forces. A total of fourtysix aircraft will be delivered to the Royal Air Force.
March 28th, 1983: Former First Lady Rosalyn Carter, in an interview with Dan Rather (CBS-TV), states "Connelly was behind this, there needs to be a deeper investigation..."
April 17th, 1983: Soviet Union under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin becomes a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Geneva, Switzerland...
April 18th, 1983: Giles Bentley introduces "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil, OTL's "Viagra") at the American Urological Association meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada as a means to deal with male erectile dysfunction....
May 1st-2nd, 1983: V (NBC-TV) mini-series starring Marc Singer, Faye Grant, and Jane Badler provides the highest ratings for the network....
May 15th, 1983: Soviet Union under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin becomes a member of the World Bank, amidst criticism of "betrayal of Marxist principles" in Rome, Italy....
May 19th, 1983: United Nations Security Council Resolution #530 condemns Honduran forces in Nicaragua, sparking international attention in New York City, New York...
June 1, 1983: Amphibious assault vessels Table Mountain and Transvaal are commissioned into the South African Navy.
July 1st, 1983: Soviet Politburo under Premier Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin announces Law on Soviet-Foreign Equity Joint Ventures through TASS in Moscow, sparking economic investment. Also on this day, The HMCS Eagle is commissioned into the Canadian Forces Maritime Command. The 55,000 tons has a crew of 1,520 and an airing of 20 CF-187 Corsair II attack fighters, 18 CF-188 Hornet multirole fighters, 2 CE-2C Hawkeye airborne radar planes, 4 CP-121 Trackers, and 4 CH-124 Sea king helicopters.
3 July 1983: The first sub orbital test flight of a full scale mock up of the Soviet Buran shuttle is tested.
July 4, 1983: The first squadron of British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3 AWACS aircraft is delivered to No. 8 Squadron RAF despite several delays.
July 22nd, 1983: Soviet troops begin their withdrawal from Warsaw, amidst cries of international condemnation for its actions....
23 July 1983: The Royal Space Agency cuts funding for the HOTOL project in favour of its Sea dragon inspired two staged rocket. Alan Bond takes what of his design is not made classified with him hoping to find a private backer for this space plane.
August 13th, 1983: KAL flight 007 is shot at by a missile from a fighter but manages to make an emergency landing at a soviet air base. The Soviets try to cover it up by claiming it was a spy plane. Regardless the west views this as the Soviet military is out of control. Though no life was lost the Soviets still are condemned.
August 21st, 1983: Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. survives an assassination attempt, blamed on "communist guerillas" (actually, government troops) in Manila, Philippines....
August 26th, 1983: Soviet Politburo under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin announces the formation of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in Moscow, Stalingrad, Vladivostok, and Minsk in an effort to attract foreign investment....
September 21st, 1983: Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. leads "National Day of Unity" rallies calling for unity amongst the various factions against the Marcos regime....
September 26th, 1983: LT. Col. Stanislav Petrov narrowly avoids sending the world into a nuclear war. His lack of reaction shows the flaws in Soviet early warning systems. Following this Abalkin demanded the systems be investigated for flaws. Though the Soviets cover this up at first Petrov will later be rewarded a medal.
September 30th, 1983: U.S. Defense Department releases a report detailing the threat of "domestic terrorism" reported by U.S. News & World Report...
October 23rd, 1983: The US Marine Barracks in Beirut is attacked by Suicide bombing. 322 are killed 75 are injured. Also on this day, News anchor Jessica Savitch is named chief anchor at NBC-TV in New York City, New York....
October 25th, 1983: The US invades Grenada to kick out the communists that had taken power and protect US citizens at the medical school there.
November 2nd 1983: NATO war game Able Archer 83 commences though theses are just military maneuvers, the Soviets are convinced that NATO forces will attack. The unnerving part is the use of nuclear weapons spies at NATO headquarters have uncovered. Though it is simulated the Soviet do not know that. The Russians go on there highest alert.
November 8th, 1983: Double agent Oleg Gordievsky tells his British handlers that the Russians fear that the war games are a preemptive strike. He is taken seriously as he predicted Abalkin becoming premier.
November 16th, 1983: Soviet Premier Abalkin summons the head of the KGB and the defense minister to his Kremlin office. Though no records of this meeting both men came from the meeting visibly shaken. The KGB head would commit suicide later that day.
November 18th, 1983: Premier Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin shocks the world when he reveals how close the world came to nuclear war. He points the the blame on US President Connally and British Prime Minister Thatcher. He mutters this to an aide afterward. "The wrong man was killed in Dallas."
December 9th, 1983: Scarface starring Nancy Allen and Al Pacino, directed by Brian de Palma, makes its hit debut....
December 15th, 1983: Israeli government officials in Tel Aviv disclose that they have obtained nuclear weapons, sparking international condemnation. Also on this day, Cattle are found mutilated Azerbaijan SSR.
December 19th, 1983: CIA Director William secretly meets with Vietnamese guerillas in Saigon, urging them to spread violence into the People's Republic of China...
January 27th, 1984: Singer Michael Jackson dies after accidentally being set on fire during a Pepsi commercial shoot at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California....
March 5th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses begins using San Francisco, California as the main center of the cocaine trade in North America....
March 10th, 1984: The Soviet Government quietly updates its entire nuclear warning systems. The flaws exposed after a 6 month inquiry are explained from the incident of September 1983. Also on this day, Washington Post reports that the autopsy photos and X-rats from the Jimmy Carter assassination have been donated to the National Archives in Washington D.C.,...
March 14th, 1984: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, is assassinated by members of the Ulster Freeom Fighters (UFF) in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
April 13th, 1984: New York Times reports that the FBI and Secret Service are attempting to recreate the assassination of President Carter, sparking national attention...
April 15, 1984: The HMS Nelson (D111) is launched as the first of the Type 43 multirole destroyers. The Type 43 is 566 feet 7 inches (172.7 meters) in length, 64 feet 4 inches (19.6 meters) wide, 29 feet 10 inches (9.1 meters) tall and 7,570 tons displacement. It is armed with 2 GWS.32 Sea Dart II medium-range twin-arm missile launchers, 3 GWS.25 Sea Wolf short-range missile launchers, 2 4.5"/55-caliber Mark 8 naval guns, 4 Mark 143 Harpoon launchers, 2 Vulcan Phalanx 20mm CIWS systems,
2 GAU-19 12.7mm Miniguns, and 2 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes. The Nelson's sister ships are named HMS Fraser (D112), HMS Anson (D113), HMS Hower (D114), HMS Jellicoe (D115), and HMS Rodney (D116).
April 19th 1984: The documentary the Blood of Vietnam is an expose of the terrible things are there with the guerrilla war against the Chinese. Access to the Vietnamese Guerrillas show the atrocities the Chinese are doing. In the US many people are still mad over Vietnam but this shows many people that some communist nations will attack other communist nations.
May 21st, 1984: President John Connelly calls the Vietnamese forces "Heroes of Freedom" and "Champions of the Free World" during a speech in San Jose, California....
June 4th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses leads a political rally for Adolfo Calero in the Mission District of San Francisco, California....
June 5th, 1984: Saudi Arabia begins arming Iraqi forces against Iran, sparking tensions throughout the Persian Gulf region. Also on this day, "State of Shock" single featuring Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and Michael Jackson is released, becoming one of the best-selling records of the 1980s....
June 19th, 1984: President John Connelly sharply increases covert aid to Vietnamese rebels...
July 14th, 1984: District Attorney Arlo Smith and Angela Alioto launches a case claiming a conspiracy to assassinate President Jimmy Carter, at the 9th Circuit Court in San Francisco, California...
August 8, 1984: The HMS Ark Royal (R09) is put into Marconi Marine's Shipbuilding in Glasgow. The British government asks for a copy of the Eagle's rebuild plans from the Canadians who happily send over a copy. Due to a naming conflict, the Invincible-class light carrier Ark Royal (R07) is renamed HMS Implacable (R07).
August 15th, 1984: Fis Declaration; Kurdish PKK guerillas led by Abdullah Öcalan, proclaim national independence for Kurdistan in Fis, Turkey. Also on this day, War Crimes Tribunal at the International Court of Justice at the Hague, Netherlands condemns U.S. military actions into Nicaragua, sparking international attention...
September 5, 1984: The British Ministry of Defense announces a program to modernize the FAA with fixed wing AEW, ASW, and COD as well as carrier capable fighter aircraft.
October 5, 1984: Commander Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space as part of the crew on the space shuttle Challenger during STS-41-G.
October 11th, 1984 : President Connally and former Vice President Mondale hold a televised debate. This is considered the nastiest debate televised as Mondale lost the Vice Presidency to Connally. He does questions Connally's decisions in regards to the situation in Northern Ireland, the U.S./Soviet arms race, and rising gap between rich and poor...
October 12th, 1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is assassinated in Brighton, England by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). MP Michael Heseltine is sworn in as British Prime Minister in Brighton, England, calling out for calm during the crisis...
October 31st, 1984: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi survives an assassination by Sikh guards in New Delhi, India, sparking sectarian violence nationwide...
November 4th, 1984: News anchor Ted Koppel reports on Nightline (ABC-TV) reports that there are flaws in the investigation regarding the 1981 assassination of President Jimmy Carter...
November 6th, 1984: Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN) defeats President John Connelly (R-TX) in one of the most divisive elections....
November 11, 1984: With the HMS Ark Royal undergoing an extensive rebuild, the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm begins looking for a fighter to launch off of it.
November 16th, 1984: Missing in Action starring Chuck Norris, written by James Cameron, details a former POW's entry into Vietnam to find his long-lost comrades, makes its hit debut...
November 17th, 1984: Brazilian President João Figueiredo loses re-election-bid to Tancredo Neves, in an election that is monitored by United Nations officials...
November 26th, 1984: Jairo Meneses is arrested for assault and battery during a rally at the University of California at Berkeley....
December 15th, 1984: The Return of Godzilla: brings the monster back onto the big screen. The pot is centered around the return of Godzilla and the the tensions regarding space based weapons (Japan in the film has Amaterasu as Japan's). Godzilla also fights the Super -X a low flying space attack plane.The climax has a Soviet nuclear missile accidentally launch and try to destroy Godzilla but an American anti-missiles system destroys the nuke but accidentally reviving the monster. Godzilla is then lured to a volcano and dropped in. The sub-plot deals with Japan's role in the cold war. Raymond Burr returns to play Steve Martin in the American version of the film. The cold war sub-plot is kept in.
January 20th, 1985: Walter Mondale (D-MN) is sworn in an inaugural ceremony in Washington, wherein he states, "It's morning again in America. Today more men and women will have hope than ever before in our country's history..."
February 7th,1985: President Mondale pressures several states including Illinois, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, and Nevada to pass the ERA. These states have Democratic governors.
March 2nd, 1985: Missing in Action 2: The Revenge starring Chuck Norris, written by James Cameron, details Colonel Braddock and his friends fighting against Chinese forces as they move into Vietnam....
March 12, 1985: The Canadian government recognizes the sovereignty of the Republic of China. The government of the People's Republic of China condemns Canada's recognition of the Republic of China and declares it as inflammatory and an attempt to destabilize the region.
March 17th, 1985: Iraqi forces launch a massive offensive against Iranian occupation forces along the Basra-Baghdad Road....
April 4th, 1985: Jairo Meneses, implicates his uncle Norwin Meneses as one of the heads of the cocaine trade in San Francisco, California, after an arrest in Berkeley, California....
April 12th, 1985: In a bold marketing move, Secret Wars #12 by Jim Shooter and Mike Zeck, ends with the Beyonder "recreating the Marvel Universe..."
April 15th, 1985: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) accounts for 92% of all erectile-dysfunction drugs according to WHO/CDC officials in Atlanta, Georgia....
April 17th, 1985: Elvis Presley appears on Saturday Night Live (NBC-TV), performing several of his hits in New York City, New York....
April 21st, 1985: Brazilian President Tancredo Neves suffers a minor heart attack, and is hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil....
May 10th, 1985: United Nations Security Council Resolution #562 condemns international military intervention in Nicaragua, sparking international attention in New York City, New York...
May 22nd, 1985 : Rambo: First Blood, Part II premiers. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and a young Micheele Yeoh in her international debut. It deals with Rambo having to help receive help from the same people he fought against in Vietnam to get the MIA's out of a Chinese camp. It is a blockbuster.
July 13th, 1985: Singers Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson perform "State of Shock" at Live Aid in London, England....
July 21st, 1985: New Universe mini-series by Jim Shooter and Al Milgram "re-imagines" the Marvel Universe with events starting in 1985...
August 17th, 1985: Shah Reza Pahlavi bans all elections nationwide, citing the military "state of emergency"...
September 1st, 1985: "Class of '55" featuring Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis makes its hit debut; Elvis Presley settles his feud with Jerry Lee Lewis in Memphis...
September 10, 1985: The Canadian government approves of the construction of seven Polar 8-class heavy icebreakers. The Canadian Coast Guard gets four of them while the Maritime Command receives three of them.
October 6th, 1985: Toyota Motor Company unveils the "Aqua" Zero Emissions Vehicle in Tokyo, Japan, sparking fears that Japan is beating the United States in technology....
October 30th, 1985: Sylvia Seegrist of Springfield, Pennsylvania goes on a killing spee, leaving 3 dead and 7 injured after taking the narcotic "Draugr"...
November 1, 1985: HMS Implacable (R07) is commissioned into the Royal Navy.
5th November 1985: After several years of research and investment, the very first launch of a Sea Dragon Rocket takes place. The "ER 1" is launched into lower orbit. A simple satellite which simply relays a repeating message of "God save the queen" orbits the earth for several months before falling back to earth and landing in the atlantic. British enthusiasm for the project skyrockets.
November 14, 1985: The Australian government makes a request to the United States regarding the cost of purchasing one of the decommissioned Essex-class aircraft carriers from them. The United States government surprises them by offering to give them one for free if the Australian paid its operation and refit costs.
November 19th 1985: Us President Mondale and Soviet Premier Abalkin have their first summit in Geneva Switzerland. Both men take an instant liking to each other. Though both want to reduce their nuclear stockpiles, they know they both have opposition at home. Mondale with in Congress and Abalkin with in the Communist party.
December 11th, 1985: Worried that Chinese PLA forces are winning the conflict, President Walter Mondale approves the sale of Stinger missiles to Vietnamese guerillas...
December 20th, 1985: San Francisco Chronicle reporters Brian Barger and Robert Parry, expose the fact that the regime of General Edmundo Meneses is trafficking cocaine and running guns through San Francisco...
December 26th, 1985: Whitley Streiber reports being abducted by aliens, while in Catskills, New York, sparking international attention and concern...
December 27th, 1985: Primatologist Dian Fossey holds a press conference in Cambridge, England accusing the government in Kigali, Rwanda of attempting to assassinate her....
January 24, 1986: The United States announces that the ex-USS Oriskany is to be given to Australia. Oriskany leaves Bremerton, Washington, under town on February 20, 1986, arriving in Melbourne, Australia, on May 10. Like the Canadian and British fleet carriers, a plan to rebuild it was drawn up. The carrier is dry-docked at Williamstown, Victoria, on June 18, 1986, for rebuild.
February 15, 1986: Supermarine Aerospace unveils the Supermarine Lancaster II bomber to the MInistry of Defense as a replacement for the retired Avro Vulcan bomber. Many people note that the Lancaster II looks similar to the B-1 Lancer and Tu-160 Blackjack bombers.
February 28th, 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme survives an asssassination attempt in Stockholm, Sweden....
March 15th, 1986: Author Whitley Streiber predicts,"the dangers of upcoming ozone holes that would create measurable crop damage in the 1990-93 period..." during an environmental rally in New York City, New York...
April 23, 1986: The Durance-class auxiliary vessel HMAS Success (OR-304) is commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy. It is the first of three Durance-class supply vessels to be built for the RAN. The Success' sister ships are named HMAS Victory (OR-305) and HMAS Challenge (OR-306).
April 26, 1986: Due to the unqualified staff having been fired in January, the Chernobyl disaster in Pripyat, Ukraine SSR is averted.
May 19th, 1986: Riots erupt in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after Brazilian Air Force officials report sighting UFOs, over major cities, sparking international attention and concern....
June 22, 1986: The Hand of God goal is disallowed by Ali Bin Nasser, after consulting with his assistant. The second Maradona Goal still falls, as does the English goal. This game goes into penalty shootout too. Because Maradona was already sent off for playing hand in the English box (113.) and Argentina was punished with a penalty, England wins 1-2 a.e.t. (Maradona, Lineker 80., Lineker 114.). England stands in the semi. This is easily won against Belgium (3-0, Lineker, Steven, Hodge). On June 29, England loses against Germany, 8-9 in penalty shootout.
July 5, 1986: The British government orders 160 Supermarine Lancaster II bombers to replace the recently retired 136 Avro Vulcan bombers. The first bomber will role off the production line in May 1988.
August 20th, 1986: Patrick Sherrill of Edmond, Oklahoma goes on a violent killing spree after ingesting "Draugr" killing 14 people, leaving 6 injured...
August 23rd, 1986: Adam's Apple (ABC-TV) starring John Cunningham, Kathleen Doyle, and Polly Draper, makes its hit series debut....
September 8th, 1986: 48 Hours (CBS-TV) led by reporter Charlie Rose, reports on the "Draugr Epidemic", warning of the danger of the violent behavior caused by the drug..
September 12th, 1986: Whitley Streiber holds his first press conference regading his alleged UFO abduction experiences in New York City, New York...
October 4th, 1986: CBS-TV news anchor Dan Rather is killed by William Tager, while constantly repeating "What's the frequency Kenneth?" in New York City, New York...
October 11th, 1986: President Mondale announces to keep to his promise to freeze the manufacture and testing of nuclear weapons. The Republicans and Southern Democrats accuse him of capitulating to the Soviets.
October 25, 1986: The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
November 4th, 1986: Amidst support from President Walter Mondale and Lyndon La Rouche (D-NH), California passes Proposition #64, requiring government testing of all persons suspected of AIDS/HIV infection to be tested and isolated...
November 25, 1986: The Canadian government announces that a modified version of the Spruance-class will be used as Canada's new destroyer design. The modified Spru-cans are named the River-class with the HMCS Yukon River (DDG-284). The class will have a run of twelve vessels and all of them will be built in Canadian shipyards.
December 6th, 1986: U.S. Consul-General Michael Springmann warns of "unqualified applicants" receiving c. 100 visas, approved by the U.S. State Department.....
December 14th, 1986: Followers of religious leader Eduard Albert Meier proclaim to have scientific evidence of psychic contact with extraterrestrials during a press conference in Los Angeles, California....
January 21st, 1987: San Francisco Chronicle reveals in an interview with Dennis Ainsworth that Nicaraguan government is supporting the trafficking of cocaine through northern California...
February 16th, 1987: Soviet Premier Leonid Abalkin states, "In spite of all the differences between us, we must all learn to preserve our one big family of humanity. At our meeting in Geneva, the U.S. President said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it's early yet to worry about such an intrusion..."
February 25th, 1987: Communion by Whitley Streiber is published, proclaiming his alien abduction experiences, and his alleged conversations with his abductors, becoming a major bestseller....
February 28th, 1987: Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) states that his office was not allowed to see the photographs or the X-rays to the Carter assassination autopsy, fueling conspiracy theories....
March 14th, 1987: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise by Hiroyuki Yamaga makes its hit debut, detailing a hypothetical scenario behind the "Wow! Signal" with another world's race into space,...
March 24th, 1987: Wall Street Riots; AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power clashes with investors and police in New York City , New York over a perceived mishandling of hte AIDS/HIV crisis...
April 1st, 1987: "My Name is Luka" by Suzanne Vega is released. Rolling Stone magazine starts the rumor that the song is based on the relationship between Vega and Luka...
April 4th, 1987: A village is found slaughter in the Amazon of Brazil. The way villages are killed is very odd, organ missing, burned, heart attacks confuses the Brazilian Military police.
April 5th 1987: In many Brasilian cities there is panic after a TV report about the incident in the Amazon. NBC airs the report unedited at the Nightly News, causing unrest among the general public.... ABC and CBS decided not the show the report.
May 21, 1987: The first Polar 8-class icebreaker is launched. It is named the CCGS John G. Diefenbaker. The subsequent Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers are named the Percy W. Nelles, Billy Bishop, and Marc Garneau. The Maritime Command's icebreakers are named the Frobisher Bay, Rankin Inlet, and Northwest Passage.
June 1st, 1987: ACT UP! launches a sit-in protest outside the White House in Washington D.C., local police officials where masks and rubber gloves out of fear of possible contamination...
June 4th, 1987: Northwest, Pan Am, and TWA announce that they will not accept passengers with AIDS/HIV during a press conference in New York City, New York...
July 6th, 1987: Singer Madonna Ciccone is hospitalized after an a domestic violence dispute with husband Sean Penn at their home in New York City, New York...
July 31st, 1987: Mecca Incident; Islamic fundamentalist Mehdi Hashemi detonates a bomb at the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, killing 14 people...
August 9, 1987: The Stendal NPP is completed and operational.
August 17th, 1987: Hess Scandal; Rudolf Hess reveals to Der Spiegel that he flew into Great Britain in an effort to meet with conservative leaders to arrange a peace agreement in 1941....
August 19th, 1987: Michael Robert Ryan kills 16 people, and injures 15 people in Hungerford, England after ingesting the drug "Draugr"....
August 22nd, 1987: Filipino chain restaurant "Inay" is established in Berkeley, California, speading in popularity due to the student population...
August 27th, 1987: Larry Kramer launches the first major protests against Proposition 64 in San Francisco, California...
September 3rd, 1987: Act II (NBC-TV) starring Sandy Duncan, Charles Frank, and Hayley Carr, makes its hit series debut....
September 8th, 1987: Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping announces the withdrawal of Chinese PLA troops from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure...
September 9th, 1987: President Walter Mondale establishes the AIDS/HIV Commission in Washington D.C., amidst great controversy....
3rd October 1987: In the Atlantic Ocean, a highly telivised and publicised launch is about to take place. After several successful unmanned test launches and satellites are achieved, the first independent British astronaught launches into orbit. From a launch platform far out to sea, with a Royal naval aircraft carrier providing protection, an astronaught by the name of Terry Deary is launched into low earth orbit by a Sea Dragon launcher, along with several Satellites. After a few hours orbiting the earth, he lands in the pacific and is picked up by a Royal Navy frigate. Britain has finally launched a man into space independently.
October 19, 1987: HMS Indomitable (R08) is commissioned into the Royal Navy.
October 21st 1987: The British Isles and The Netherlands are hit by a hurricane-force storm. Altough no-one thinks of alien interference, proof of such interference is found by the Soviets. The airing of a Soviet TV report ,about Alien Interference on our climate, in the Netherlands chauses a public outcry. The BBC and ITN decide not to show the Report.
October 31st 1987: NASA claims that there was no Alien intervention on our climate. But there are still doubts
November 6th, 1987: "Luka", the first album by Luke Luka, makes its hit debut, with hit singles "The Girl Next Door", "It Worries Me" and "I Can Read Between the Lines"...
November 11th, 1987- November 11th, 1990: Gulf Breeze Panic; Residents of Gulf Breeze to Pensacola, Florida, report seeing UFOs, sparking international attention and concern...
15 November 1987: Lifted into orbit by the Energia booster rocket, soviet shuttle Buran completes its first mission two unmanned orbits of the earth before successfuly landing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
November 28th, 1987: Nuclear Liberation Front detonates a pipe bomb outside the entrance of Sandia National Nuclear Laboratories in Livermore,California killing 8 people...
December 1st, 1987: Ilkley Moor Panic; panic erupts in Ilkley Moor, Yorkshire, England, amidst reports of an alien landing, sparking international attention...
December 31st, 1987: United Nations Security Council passes Resoution#622 authorizing the deployment of United Nations peace-keeping forces into Vietnam in an effort to monitor the Chinese withdrawal....
January 13th, 1988: General Hospital Riots; Riots erupt at San Francisco General Hospital after health officials report drug shortages for AIDS/HIV treatment and call for "home treatment"...
January 22nd, 1988: Braddock: Missing in Action 3 starring Chuck Norris features Colonel Braddock and his team of soldiers returning to free Amerasian children in Vietnam from execution by Chinese PLA forces...
February 12, 1988: During a transit through Soviet territorial waters, the USS Yorktown (CG-48) is rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy.
February 15th- May 16th, 1988: Chinese troops begin their withdrawal from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure,....
February 16th, 1988: CIA officials continue to aid Vietnamese guerillas despite the withdrawal of Chinese troops from the region....
March 29th, 1988: Dulcie September, leader of the African National Congress (ANC), exposes the arms trade between France and South Africa, during a press conference in Paris, France...
April 12th, 1988: Yū Kikumura bombs the Veteran's Administration office during a military recruitment drive in New York city, New York, killing 8 people...
April 16th, 1988: "Apex Predator" the first album of the Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Now I've Got A Witness", "Honest I Do" and "If You Try"...
April 29th, 1988: National Out Cry!; LGBT communities launch protests in major cities across the United States against the Mondale administration...
April 30, 1988: The HMCS Halifax (FFH-330), the first of eighteen Halifax-class frigates is launched from Saint John Shipbuilding. It is 144 meters in length, 16.5 meters wide, and 5 meters tall. The Halifax is armed with a 5"/62-caliber naval gun (designed by Space Research Corporation), a 32-cell Mark 41 VLS, 4 8-cell Mark 48 VLS, and a pair of 20mm Phalanx Block 1B CIWS.
May 7th, 1988: Vito Russo sparks riots in San Francisco, California in response to federal efforts at registration of suspected "AIDS/HIV carriers"...
May 25th, 1988: Rambo III Premiers. It stars Stallone, Crenna, and Yeah once again. It is about the Vietnamese resitance to the Chinese and Rambo helping the Vietnamese attack the Chinese. It is a blockbuster but not as popular as the second film.
May 30th, 1988: "Apex Predator: Ireland's Most Wanted" the U.S. released album of the Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut...
August 15, 1988: The Canadian Forces goes with a modified design based on the Trafalgar-class nuclear attack submarine. Named the Columbia-class, the sub is 300 feet long, has a displacement of 5,820 tons, is armed with 6 533mm torpedo tubes, and an 8-cell Mark 36 VLS. It is also equipped with a Thales Type 2040 Sonar, and powered by a modified CANDU reactor. The Canadian government announces that six subs will be built.
August 15th- November 15th, 1988: Second phase of withdrawal of Chinese PLA forces from Vietnam is initiated, amidst heavy international pressure...
August 22nd, 1988: "Inay's" proudly announces that it will be offering health benefits as a "employee-owned company" in Berkeley, California..
August 24th, 1988: ACT-UP! detonates a pipe bomb outside FDA offices in San Francisco, condemning the drug approval process...
September 11th, 1988: Silver Tower novel by Tom Clancy, a sequel to Cardinal in the Kremlin proposes a space-station defense network which would be used as a "last line of defense" in orbit against a possible Soviet attack...
September 19th, 1988: Israeli officials announce the successful launch of the Ofeq-1 satellite, fueling sectarian and political unrest within the Middle East, at Palmachim, Israel,....
1 October 1988: Soviet Shuttle Ptichka completes an unmanned first flight remaining in orbit for 36 hours.
October 11th, 1988: ACT UP! shuts down the offices of the Food & Drug Administration with a sit-in in Washington D.C., demanding greater action regarding the AIDS crisis...
November 8th, 1988: Governor George H.W. Bush (R-TX) defeats President Walter Mondale (D-MN) in a close election battle...
December 21st, 1988: Man in Manley, Iowa is attacked by rabbits, he is taken to a hospital in Mason City Iowa.
January 15th, 1989: "Apex Predator 2.0" album by Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut with hit singles "What a Shame", "Grown Up Wrong" and "Off the Hook"...
January 20th, 1989: George H.W. Bush is sworn in an inaugural ceremony in Washington D.C., proclaiming," A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken..."
February 8th, 1989: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses is arrested by a joint task force of DEA and FBI agents in San Francisco....
March 2nd, 1989: Liviu Cornel Babeş leads pro-democracy rallies in Bucharest, Romania, in defiance of Communist authorities. Also on this day, Vytautas Vičiulis leads pro-democracy rallies in Vilnius, Lithuania SSR calling for independence...
March 11th, 1989: United Nations Security Council passes Resolution #647 extending the presence of United Nations peace-keeping forces in Vietnam an additional 6 months...
March 13, 1989: A solar coronal mass ejection causes a blackout across all of Quebec, as it hits the Hydro-Québec power grid, affecting over 6 million people for more than 9 hours.
March 28th, 1989: New York Riots; 380 LGBT people are arrested in Greenwhich Village, New York City, New York in protest to the lack of funding for AIDS/HIV research....
March 29, 1989: The HMS Ark Royal (R09) is recommissioned into the Royal Navy with the same advanced features as its sister ship, the Eagle. Also on this day, The British fleet carrier HMS Ark Royal is reccommisioned into the Royal Navy after spending five years undergoing a major rebuild. The Ark Royal has an airwing composed of 20 F/A-18 Hornets, 16 Supermarine Rapiers (Based on the Vickers Type 583), 2 Hawker Siddeley Sentinel AEW aircraft, 4 Lockheed S-3RN Viking ASW aircraft, 2 Grumman C-1 Trader COD aircraft, 4 AW101 Merlin utility helicopters.
April 1st, 1989: Billionaire Richard Branson calls upon the British House of Commons to "lead the way", during a rally in Hyde Park in London, England...
April 9th, 1989: Author Whitley Streiber predicts, "giant boulders sailing off the edge of the moon along with a realization that the moon's exploding means, "Oh, this is the end of the world."..." during a television interview in New York City, New York....
April 12th, 1989: Soviet Politburo under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin establishes the General Principles of Civil Law, establishing the legal groundwork for a market economy in Moscow....
April 14th, 1989: "Giant Steps" album by Luke Luka is released, featuring the hit singles "I See Your Face Before Me", "Deep In a Dream" and "I'll Never Be The Same"....
May 26th, 1989: Indian Remote Sensing Satellite, IRS-P4 (OCEANSAT), launched by Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C2) along with Korean KITSAT-3 and German DLR-TUBSAT from Sriharikota, India...
June 1st, 1989: Day of the Eagle novel by Tom Clancy, proposes trans-orbital SST bombers, becoming a major bestseller....
June 23, 1989: The HMS Ark Royal (R09) sets sail to Halifax, Nova Scotia to participate in naval war games exercises with Americans and Canadians.
July 12th, 1989: Christian Dornier kills 14 people in Luxiol, France after ingesting "Draugr", sparking concern about European laws regarding narcotics...
July 18th, 1989: Actress Rebecca Schaeffer narrowly survives being shot by a celebrity stalker in Hollywood, California while on the set of My Sister Sam (CBS-TV),...
July 25, 1989: Canadian Defense Minister Bill McKnight announces the return of pre-unification insignia, names, ranks, traditions, and uniforms to the Canadian Forces.
July 27th, 1989: United Nations Security Council Resolution #637 establishes peace talks regarding Nicaragua, with the Soviet Union participating on behalf of the Communist government in Nicaragua...
August 23rd, 1989: Soviet troops are deployed in the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, amidst international condemnation...
August 30th, 1989: Israel begins deporting refugees back to Palestine, citing them as a "threat to national security..."
September 3rd, 1989: "Kathy Konners Sings" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut, introducing Christian music to a mainstream audience with hit singles "I Know It", "Spiritual Attraction" and "Think of Me"....
September 24th, 1989: "I'm Alright" album by the Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut with hit singles "I'm Alright" and "One More Try"...
25 September 1989: A full scale mock up of the Soviet Buran shuttle is put on display at the Paris air show.
October 3rd, 1989: The Space Moose comic strip makes its infamous debut. The strip follows the adventures of Space Moose, an anthropomorphic, nihilistic moose with asymmetrical eyes and a Star Trek uniform, as he violates every behavioral norm and societal taboo he can find. His roommates Marlo Smefner, Billy the Bionic Badger, and Bald Dwarf are often the accomplices or victims of his actions...
October 18th 1989: the film Battleship Yamato priemers to huge Japanese popularity. It gets a small release in the US and Europe the following year.
October 28th, 1989: Battle of the Bay; San Francisco Giants led by Matt Williams win the World Series in Game 6 against the Oakland A's, 4-0; Williams dedicates the win to the victims of the Loma Prieta earthquake...
November 10th, 1989: Communion based on the book by Whitley Streiber, starring Christopher Walken, with music by Eric Clapton, makes its hit film debut,...
November 11, 1989: The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
November 12th, 1989: Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu dismisses American and Soviet efforts at SETI research stating, during an interview in Tokyo saying, "Japan does not have such organizations at a government level... If young people display a serious interest in similar phenomena, we should perhaps think of forming a extraterrestrial data collecting group under the auspices of the Ministry of Education..."
November 20th, 1989: Conserative MP Sir Anthony Meyer calls for a "no confidence" vote against Prime Minister Michael Heseltine in London, England...
December 5th, 1989: MP Sir Anthony Meyer becomes British Prime Minister after a "no confidence" vote against Prime Minister Michael Heseltine in London, England..
December 8th, 1989: NASA Galileo mission under the command of Kenneth D. Cameron and James D. Halsell does a lunar flyby, assuring the American people that they will be returning to the lunar surface....
December 16th, 1989: Godzilla Vs. Biolante: A Scientist Driven mad by the the death of his daughter in a terrorist attack in the middle east tries to create a plant which can hold her soul. He creates a monster called Duetalios. But Godzilla shows up defeats and eats it. The scientist uses Godzilla DNA in the monster. The monster Biolante shows up but Godzilla defeats it in the end. The film has a twist ending, the DNA that scienst had is gathered by the government and will be used in a later film as a weapon. This film is shown in a small amount of US theaters but does have a PG-13 rating due to the eating scene.
December 25th, 1989: ACT UP! detonates a pipe bomb outside the New York Times in New York City, New York killing 3 people, sparking national attention...
January 8th, 1990: "Love Locked Out" album by Luke Luka makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Love Locked Out", "With Every Breath I Take", and "If It's The Last Thing I Do". Also on this day, Religious leader Eduard Albert Meier proclaims extraterrestrial messages of world peace, with followers spreading across the world from Los Angeles, California....
February 20th, 1990: By now, Britain is launching several Sea Dragon rockets per year. The cheap cost of the rocket and huge size of it has allowed Britain to be the favourite launcher of satellites, and a profit is actually being made. The Government announces plans to construct a British Space station from which Britain can seriously expand it's programme. Work on modules for the King George V space station begin, with plans to send them up by the middle of 1991.
March 15, 1990: The RCSA and Bombardier unveil the new Odyssey rocket.
March 19th, 1990: Japanese NASDA Hagoromo Project does a lunar flyby, sparking international tensions between the United States and Japan, as both nations proclaim efforts to return mankind to the lunar surface....
March 20th, 1990: Singer Gloria Estefan is killed in bus accident outside of Scranton, Pennsylvania while on her "Cuts Both Ways" tour...
March 21st, 1990: South Africa sends troops into Windhoek, Namibia, in an effort to prevent a declaration of independence...
March 27th, 1990: United Nations Security Council #650 establishes a ceasefire regarding the situation in Nicaragua, El Salvador, et al.,...
April 15th, 1990: "Doncha Bother Me" album by Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut with hit singles "It's Not Easy", "Flight 505" and "Lady Jane"...
April 21, 1990: A routine check of the telescope reveals that the primary mirror had been ground the wrong shape. The Hubble Space Telescope spends the next two months receiving a new primary mirror as well as some minor software upgrades.
April 23rd, 1990: ACT UP! extremists detonates a pipe bomb at Cook County AIDS/HIV Clinic in Chicago, Illinois killing 3 people in the procss...
April 26th, 1990: When asked about his thoughts on UFOs, Soviet Premier Leonid Abalkin states,"I know that we have organizations which study this problem..." during a press conference in Sverdlodsk, USSR; Also on this day, The USS Coral Sea (CV-43) is decommissioned due to age having been launched in April 1946.
May 4th, 1990: Soviet Premier Leonid Abalkin warns Politburo members, "The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously..." in Moscow, USSR...; Also on this same day, Soviet troops launch a brutal crackdown on Latvian nationalists in Riga, Latvia SSR, amidst international condemnation...
May 9th, 1990: Rimantas Daugintis leads rallies in Vilnius, Lithuania SSR demanding independence from the Soviet Union...
May 12th 1990: In light of the growing dente with the West and the painfully high cost of maintaining its military at the current size the Soviet Union announces that it will be cutting back its armed forces 'in the spirit of international good will'. The cutbacks are scheduled to begin in 1991 with announcements to be released regarding what the cutbacks entail released at a 'suitable date'.
May 16th, 1990: At several locations around the world; Alberta, New Mexico, France, Kazakhstan, China, Australia and other locations, UFOs are sighted. Following this livestock are found in nearby areas to UFO sightings mutilated. Some are still alive when found.
June 22, 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched after a two month delay.
June 28th, 1990: "No One Ever Tells You" album by Luke Luka flops, despite heavy promotion....
July 1, 1990: Cameroon wins against England. The goal by Ekeke is scored, but Edgardo Cosendal Mendez overlooks the English foul in the 83rd minute and awards no penalty, but a free kick. But Cameroon then loses in the Semifinal against Germany. Nevertheless, all of Sub-Saharan africa celebrates and Fifa decides to implement the 32-team format for the World cup 1994 already.
July 20th, 1990: The Bakery (ABC-TV) starring David Dukes, Kate McNeil and Cleavant Derricks, makes its hit series debut...
July 27th, 1990: Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr overthrows the governments of Trinidad and Tobago in a military coup, sparking fears of an Islamic fundamentalist state within the Western Hemisphere...
August 17th, 1990: Croatian Uprising; Croatian nationalists launch an armed insurrection led by Franjo Tudman in Belgrade, Yugoslavia....
August 20 1990: the Prime Minister of Canada Preston Manning orders the Army to assault Kanesatake during a protest over a golf course close to 120 Mohawk warriors and 80 Canadian soldiers are killed...
September 1st, 1990: "Mistletoe & Holly" the Christmas album by Luke Luka receives moderate sales, but sparks concerns over whether or not Luka will be able to make another hit record...
September 12, 1990: The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for the reunification of Germany.
September 15th 1990 The TV series Voltron is bought for syndication On American TV for FOX Saturday morning Cartoons. The series will bring the interest of mecha to a young audience.
September 18th 1990: The Soviet military cutbacks are finally announced along with the plans for helping those affected by the reductions. The reductions make sense, mostly older equipment is to be scrapped or sold. The entire MiG-21 fleet will be grounded and deleted apart from trainer aircraft, along with the MiG-23, MiG-27 and all current SU-17s and 22s.
The soviet surface fleet will be retiring all of its old destroyers and Frigates leaving the Udaloy and Sovremenny class Destroyers as the main combattants. The older cruisers will also be deleted, leaving the Kara and Slava classes as the soviets main cruisers. The total cutbacks will include 119 destroyers, 20 cruisers 94 corvettes, 2 helicopter carriers, 37 Nuclear attack subs, 20 Nuclear missile attack subs, 38 diesel attack subs and perhaps most significantly 22 SSBN ballistic missile subs. This total does not include amphibious assault ships and many smaller support vessels.
With the current fleet the only active Diesel boats will be the successful 'Kilo' Class whilst the oldest SSN will be the 'Victor III' whilst the new Akula will remain in production for both the Northern fleet and Pacific Fleet.
The army will loose several catagory B and C divisions with some A Divisions being relegated to catagory B as well as the older and more obsolete equipment being scrapped or sold. The massed T-55's and T-62s of the Soviet army are all to be decomissioned or sold and replaced with the current T-72, the unsuccessful T-64 is to be scrapped having never been a satisfactory machine whilst the T-80 will remain in production with improvements to both T-72 and 80 being developed.
For those affected by the cutbacks the Soviets have promised aid, re-training and assistance in finding new jobs, whilst the Soviet Military will become a more professional one, relying less on conscripts and on full time recruits. It is belived that this plan will take at least 10 years but will save billions of rubles and form a stronger, if smaller military.
September 20th 1990: The Western reaction to the Soviet's proposed military cutbacks is cautious but welcome, prompting some opposition party members to voice ideas about cutbacks for their armed forces to save money as well.
September 27, 1990: In response to the reduction in military forces, the United States government announces that it will be making similar cutbacks to its armed forces. For the navy, 21 cruisers, 51 destroyers, 62 frigates 94 submarines will be decommissioned by 2005. The carrier fleet will also be reduced from seventeen carriers to twelve carriers. The Iowa class battleships will also be decommissioned and placed in reserve.
October 24th, 1990: Israel threatens to walk out of the United Nations General Assembly, despite U.S. efforts, during a session in New York City, New York...
November 1st, 1990: Soviet Politburo under Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin passes a resolution stating that it recognizes "the private sector as a necessary supplement to the state sector..." in Moscow....
November 11, 1990: The HMAS Australia (R22), the former USS Oriskany (CV-34), is launched from Williamstown, Victoria. It will be commissioned late next year.
November 12th, 1990: "Touched By God" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut with hit singles "Over and Over", "Stay" and "Pretender"....
November 18th 1990: The serial House of Cards premieres. It is about a fictional Chief whip Francis Urquhart in the Conservative party who blackmails and even murders his way into Number 10.
November 20th, 1990: Vatican officials release a statement, more than 13 years after the intiial signal, saying,"Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela..."
November 21st, 1990: Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger breaks up with model Jerry Hall, sparking tabloid headlines across the globe in London, England...
November 28th, 1990: MP Neil Kinnock, Labor Party, is elected British Prime Minister in a tight and divisive race....
2 December 1990: Shuttle Ptichka begins a second unmanned second flight, the mission lasts 8 days including orbital manoeuvre's and docking with the Mir space station. at the station the crew transfer to the shuttle conducting tests of its systems, a problems with one of these system cancel a planed docking with a Soyuz crew transport, the shuttle cancelling its mission early unmanned safely returns to Earth.
December 3rd, 1990: "Carapintada" members of the army led by Mohamed Alí Seineldín overthrow the government in Buenos Aires, Argentina in a military coup....
December 7, 1990: The HMS Upholder (S40) is commissioned into the Royal Navy as the first of six Upholder class diesel-electric patrol submarines. It's sister ships will be named Unseen, Ursula, Unicorn, Ulysses, and Ultimatum.
January 8th, 1991: "Around the World" album by Luke Luka, makes its hit debut with hit singles "London by Night" and "Travellin' With You"...
January 21, 1991: The Soviet aircraft aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov (113) is commissioned into the Soviet Navy.
January 27th, 1991: "My Obsession" album by Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut with hit singles "My Obsession", "All Sold Out", and "Complicated"
February 13th, 1991: GM and Chrysler sue the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in San Francisco, California; President George H.W. Bush joins in the suit against the agency....
March 5th, 1991: Iraqi Civil War; Nouri al-Maliki leads a Shi'a rebellion against the Iraqi government, sparking a sectarian civil war in Karbala....
March 29th, 1991: Into the Groove starring Alyssa Milano and Kathy Konners, makes its hit debut, debuting several songs from Konners album....
April 23, 1991: The USAF announces that the Northrop-McDonnell Douglas YF-23 with the General Electric F120 turbofans as the winner of the Advanced Tactical Fighter program.
May 6th 1991: The Kashin class Destroyer Sderzhanny is decomissioned and work immediately begins on stripping and scrapping the ship.
May 18th, 1991: Republic of Somaliland led by Ahmed Mohamed Gulaid, announce their secession from Somalia in Sergeisa, Somalia...
Late 1991 Bill Clinton, Mario Cuomo, Ann Richards, Douglas Wilder, Tom Harkin Jerry Brown, and Paul Tsongas announce their candidacy for the presidency for the democratic party.
3 June 1991: Shuttle Buran conducts its second unmanned flight lasting 16 days were it successfully docked with a a Soyuz crew transport. Also on this day, Mount Unzen erupts, killing 43 people as a result of pyroclastic flows.
June 11, 1991: The Progressive Conservative, Liberal, and New Democrat Parties bring a motion of no confidence in regards to Preston Manning's disastrous handling of the protests at Kanesatake. During the 1991 Canadian federal election, the New Democrat Party wins 139 seats, the PCs win 102 seats, the Liberals win 38 seats, Bloq Quebecois wins 9 seats, and Reform loses all but 7 seats. Ed Broadbent becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
June 15, 1991: In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest terrestrial eruption of the 20th century; the final death toll tops 800.
June 19th, 1991: Bhaskara-II is sucessfully launched fom Sriharikota, India, as the second geo-stationary communications satellite...
June 28th, 1991: National radio personality Stanton Friedman, "For the People", proclaims "an international announcement. They will show pictures. I think they will clearly establish that we are dealing with Alien visitors and I think they will convene an international conference of religious, economic, and political leaders..."
July 9th 1991: Gundam Z Priemieres on Cartoon Network thought the show is 5 years old the network wants to buy more Gundam for broadcast due to popularity.
August 17th, 1991: Acting Sheriff (CBS-TV) starring Robert Goulet, John Putch, and Hillary B. Smith, makes its hit debut....
September 9th, 1991: FOX News (FOX-TV) hosted by Maury Povich makes its hit television debut in New York City, New York, amidst controversy over its conservative slant...
September 11th, 1991: "Only The Lonely" album by Luke Luka is released, with hit singles "It's A Lonesome Old Town" and "Slep Warm Tonight"...
September 25, 1991: In the Salvadoran Civil War, representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front reach an agreement with President of El Salvador Alfredo Cristiani setting the stage for ending over 11 years of civil war.
September 27, 1991: President Bush announces unilateral reductions in short-range nuclear weapons and calls off 24-hour alerts for long-range bombers. The Soviet Union responds with similar unilateral reductions on October 5.
October 5th, 1991: A man in Oregon is found severely injured on a county road. The man later claims he was attacked by a Sasquatch. The police believe it was a bear but the claw marks are inconsistent with a bear's...
October 16th, 1991: George Pierre Hennard kills 23 people in Killeen, Texas after ingesting "Draugr", sparking national debate as to gun laws in the "Lone Star State"...
October 22nd, 1991: PSLV-C3 successfully launches three satellites -- Technology Experiment Satellite (TES) of ISRO, BIRD of Germany and PROBA of Belgium, establishing India as a commercial space launch center...
November 16th, 1991: Soviet troops launch a brutal crackdown on Estonian nationalists in Tallinn, Estonia SSR...
November 28th, 1991: National Geographic mission to the lunar surface crashes onto the lunbar surface, killing 8 people near the Amundsen Crater....
December 1st, 1991: The Colby Christ Meets Space Moose comic book makes its infamous debut, proving to be even more of a cult hit...
December 8, 1991: Defense Minister Bill McKnight announces the reactivation of the Airborne Regiment, Canadian SAS, Devil's Brigade, Joint Task Force Two, the Royal Rifles of Canada, and Winnipeg Grenadiers on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Hong Kong. Also on this day, "Sing This All Together" album by Irish band Apex Predator flops, despite heavy promotion and advertising...
December 12th, 1991: Outbreak of AIDS/HIV is blamed on widespread use of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) in Los Angeles, California...
December 14th, 1991: Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah: Using time travel and inforamation from and future space signals, time travelers from the future go back in time and prevent Godzilla's creation to "help" Japan. In fact they create thier own monster to prevent Japan from becoming a super power.The film has Godzilla being created anyway. Godzilla defeats King Ghidorah and rampages toward Tokyo. Mecha-King Ghidorah fights godzilla but is destroyed over the ocean. A massive controversy arises though when it shows Godzilla as a dinosaur killing American soldiers in WII. This makes the film interesting enough to be released in theaters in the US.
December 22nd, 1991-January 6th, 1992: Tblisi Uprising; Zviad Gamsakhurdia leads an armed insurrection against the Soviet Union in Tblisi, Georgia SSR....
December 25th 1991: After rather lengthy delays, a Sea Dragon rocket finally launches the King George V station into orbit. Not yet habitable, it will require several missions to get up and running, but the currently unused astronaught corp of the space agency look forward to the challenge.
January 23rd, 1992: "The Last Dance" album by Luke Luka, fuelling speculation that this will be his final album, with hit singles "The Last Dance", "Nothing in Common", and "Same Old Song & Dance"...
January 24th, 1992: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) is blamed for a rise in AIDS/HIV infections worldwide, according to the WHO/CDC in Atlanta, Georgia...
Febuary 7th 1992: With Cuomo the front runner he loses the Iowa Democratic Caucus to Tom Harkin of Iowa but is second place, Clinton is third, and Richards is fourth.
February 11th, 1992: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) is approved for over the counter sales by the Ministry of Health in London, England...
February 18th 1992: Paul Tsongas wins New Hampshire Democratic Primary. Seconded by Cuomo again and Clinton in solid third.
February 29th 1992: Bill Clinton is implicated in a sex Scandal with Gennifer Flowers, she claims the Arkansas governor is the father of her unborn baby. Clinton denies this.
March 9th, 1992: the day before Super-Tuesday Hustler Breaks the scandal that Bill Clinton was filmed having sex with Flowers and it cannot be denied.
March 10th 1992: Super Tuesday Mario Cuomo wins and is considered the likely nominee for president from the Democratic Party.
March 11th 1992 Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas, Doug Wilder, and Ann Richards Drop out of the race. Only Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown are still going. But Clinton is in a scandal that will cost him the primaries.
March 17th, 1992: Suharto government calls upon President George H.W. Bush to back Indonesian government against alleged "Communist guerillas"...
March 22, 1992: The second Admiral Kuznetsov-class carrier, the Varyag, is commissioned into the Soviet Navy.
April 11, 1992: The USS Midway (CV-41) is decommissioned due to a combination of age and its status as an extremely poor seaboat.
April 18th 1992: Bill Clinton drops out of the primaries. He is now, at least through his wife, implicated in a federal investigation regarding a company called Whitewater. The only one opposing for nomination Cuomo now is Jerry Brown, but he does not have a chance.
May 25th, 1992: The Tonight Show (NBC-TV) is hosted by David Letterman in Los Angeles, California, after a decision by Johnny Carson.....
July 4, 1992: The USS George Washington (CVN-73) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
July 9th 1992: Mario Cuomo announces his choice for vice president, Governor Ann Richards of Texas.
July 13th, 1992: The Democratic National Convention starts at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.
July 16th, 1992: The Democratic party votes for Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards for their nominees for President and Vice President of the United States.
September 4th-7th, 1992: Chicago Riots; Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with local residents and police, proclaiming the "Devival"....
October 2nd-8th, 1992: United Nations General Assembly ratifies Resolution #426, granting the United Nations authority to "undertaking, coordinating, and disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects and related phenomena..."
October 20th, 1992: "Manekeny" the first album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, criticizing the Soviet Union with its hit singles "Twilight", "Stories for Boys", and "Another Time, Another Place"...
November 3rd 1992: The Democratic ticket of Mario Cuomo and Ann Richards defeats the Republican ticket of George H. W. Bush and Harold Stassen. It is the closet election since Kennedy and Nixon in 1960. Many Republicans blame the President's loss due to independent candidate H. Ross Perot. Also Southern Democrat Richards helps get Cuomo southern states.
November 10th, 1992: Xanana Gusmao, East Timorese rebel leader, launches a rebellion against the Indonesian government in Dili; Also on this day, Socially conscious rapper Engine Jammer makes his debut with the "Engine Jammer" album, featuring singles "Darkness", "Clear the Lane" and "Bullet in the Head"....
December 6th, 1992: "Prodigal Son" album by the Irish Band is a moderate success, with singles "Street Fighting Man" and "Parachute Woman"...
December 12th, 1992: Godzilla vs. Gigamoth. Godzilla and Mothra Team up to fight the earth protecting monster Giga-moth. The films climax battle destroys the entire city of Nagoya. The movie has strong environmental messages as the monsters Giga-moth and Mothera destroy a refinery in an eariler battle. The film ends with the Japanese PM and the American President (James Cromwell in his first appearance in the series) talking about creating an international Anti-monster unit. The film is a huge hit in Japan and gets enough interest to be brought over and distributed in the US. It does rather well in the US and European markets.
December 15th-28th, 1992: General Dzhokhar Dudayev launches an Islamic fundamentalist uprising in Tblisi, Georgia SSR...
December 31st, 1992: Members of the Church of the SubGenius clash with local residents at Club No in Dallas, Texas, leading to the arrest of 23 people...
February 16th, 1993: First Electric Vehicle Convention is held in Burbank, California, highlighting the growth of the electric vehicle market....
February 22, 1993: Babylon 5 premieres on television. It will last five seasons and have season TV movies.
March 18, 1993: The Mexican government announces a plan to modernize and improve its military. Looking to the United States, the Mexican government asks for help in dealing with the drug cartels and offers to allow American troops to enter Mexico to deal with the cartels.
May 7, 1993: The first squadrons of IAI Lavi multirole fighters roll off the production line in Israel.
May 8, 1993: South Africa orders 56 Lavi fighters from Israel.
6 July 1993: Shuttle Baikal completes the first manned mission in a Russian shuttle the two man crew spend 24 hours in orbit before landing at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
July 10, 1993: The USS Ranger (CV-61) is decommissioned as part of the post-Cold War military cutbacks.
July 13th, 1993: "Nice & Easy" album is released, featuring the hit singles "Nice & Easy" and "She's Funny That Way"..
July 28th, 1993: Soviet troops led by Colonel Viktor Prusakov crush Ukranian nationalists in Sevastopol, Ukraine SSR...
August 7th, 1993: True Blue starring Kathy Konners and Alec Baldwin makes its hit film debut, debuting the hit song "True Blue" by Kathy Konners...
August 9th, 1993: Brenda Harvey, estranged ex-wife of Lionel Richie, shoots and kills Diane Alexander at a parking garage in Los Angeles, California....
August 21, 1993: In the Soviet Union, production of the Yakovlev Yak-141 Freestyle begins. The Freestyle is the world's first supersonic VTOL fighter. In response, the US increases funding for its own fifth generation supersonic STOVL fighter.
September 1st 1993: Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter start with their daily comedy show Conan and Andy on Fox
September 11, 1993: The USS Forrestal (CV-59) is decommissioned as part of the post-Cold War military cutbacks.
September 29th, 1993: With the opening of an "Inay's" Filipino restaurant in Washington D.C., "Inay's" reports 272 restaurants worldwide...
October 12th, 1993: "Oktober" album by "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") is banned by Soviet authorities. Copies of the albums go on the black market...
October 19, 1993: The Soviet aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk is launched from the Black Sea Shipyard in Ukraine. It is the Soviet Union's first nuclear powered supercarrier with a length of 1065 feet, a displacement of 80,000 tons, and an airwing of 70 aircraft composed of MiG-29Ks, Su-33s, Yak-44s, and Ka-27s. The Ulyanovsk is commissioned on March 16, 1994.
November 21st 1993: The sequel to House of Cards begins. To Play the King is about Prime Minister Urquhart and his clashes with the new unnamed King (Based on Prince Charles)
November 24th, 1993: Wall Street Journal reports illegal usage of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) in professional sports nationwide...
November 26th, 1993: People's Stock Market (PSM) is opened in Moscow, launching a massive economic upswing for the Soviet Union....
December 5th, 1993: "Let It Bleed" album by Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut with the singles "Love in Vain" and "Let It Bleed"...
December 6th, 1993: Gangotri Mission launches India's first manned exploration of the lunar surface, led by Dr. Sayed Zahoor Qasim, sparking international attention to South Asia as a rising power on the global stage...
December 11th, 1993: Godzilla Vs. Mecha-Godzilla. The anti-Godzilla taskforce G-force is made and uses the remaining parts from Mecha-King Ghidorah. Godzilla is attacked by the massive flying battleship based off of the Super-X and the future technology. Godzilla also gets a son in this film as well as Rodan returns for the film but dies at the end. This film is another smash in Japan as well as internationally.
January 1st, 1994: EZLN "Zapatista" guerillas led by "Commandante Marcos" launch a Soviet-backed armed insurrection in Chiapas, Mexico in opposition to "American military occupation"...
January 12, 1994: The HMCS Columbia (SSN-876), Canada's first nuclear submarine, is delivered to the Canadian Forces. The Columbia's sister ships Niobe, Aurora, Patriot, Labrador, and Acadia are all launched between 1995 and 2002. Also on this day, President Salinas declares a "national state of emergency" amidst growing violence regarding EZLN guerilla fighting...
January 22nd, 1994: Health officials blame "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) for a spike in AIDS/HIV cases amongst persons over 55+ years old in Toronto, Canada....
February 21st, 1994: Gangotri Mission members led by Dr. Sayed Zahoor Qasim are proclaimed "national heroes" in New Delhi, India, with the world's largest ticker-tape parade....
February 21st, 1994: Feminist leader Homa Darabi leads rallies condemning the Shah of Iran in Tehran, encouraging women to vote, despite pressure by religious clerics...
February 27, 1994: The aircraft carrier Soyuz, the Ulyanovsk's sister ship, is launched from the Black Sea Shipyard in Ukraine. The Soyuz is commissioned on May 8, 1994. The Soyuz is soon assigned as the flagship of the Soviet Navy Pacific fleet.
March 7, 1994: Armenian forces shoot down an Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force C-130E Hercules carrying Iranian embassy personnel from Tehran to Moscow near Ballica in the Armenian-controlled Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, killing all 32 people on board.
March 23rd, 1994: Presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio survives an assassination attempt in Mexico City, Mexico. Also on this day, March 23, 1994: Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310-304, is flying with unauthorized people – the pilot's 16-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter – in the cockpit when the 16-year-old unintentionally disengages the autopilot without the pilots' knowledge, causing the plane to bank steeply, go into an unexpected nearly vertical dive, and crash into a hillside in the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range 20 km (12 miles) east of Mezhdurechensk, Russia. All 75 people on board die.
April 10th, 1994: Student activist Zhu Ling dies of poisoning in Beijing, China, sparking outrage nationwide...
April 17, 1994: The Canadian Army is deployed to Rwanda to stop the Genocide. The PPCLI and Airborne Regiment are deployed via Air Canada passenger jets and Antonov An-124s to immediately secure the area for further reinforcements arrive. Soon after, more units from the Canadian Army arrive as well as the units from the US army, British army, Soviet army, South African army, and German army.
May 4, 1994: The MN Charles de Gaulle (R91) is launched from the Brest Naval Shipyard.
May 5th, 1994: Anti-war protests le by Chicano/Latino leaders take place in San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix, AZ; Santa Fe, NM; Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX; and Houston, TX protesting American military support to Mexico...
June 21st, 1994: Megawati Sukarnoputri calls for democratic reforms, during an anti-government rally in Jakarta, Indonesia....
June 25, 1994: UNAMIR-II reestablishes peace in Rwanda, though the Genocide had still taken 225,000 lives.
July 4th, 1994: Storming Heaven novel by Tom Clancy, details a possible war between the People's Republic of China and India with U.S. orbital weapons as the "last line of defense"....
July 6th, 1994: Worlds Collide (DC Comics) by Marv Wolfman and Dwayne McDuffie reintroduces the "multiverse" with the creation of the ethnically diverse "Earth-D"
July 24, 1994: The Mexican government purchases 60 F-15C/D Eagles and 96 F-16C/D (Block 25) Fighting Falcons to replace the F-5 Tiger II in its arsenal. They also buy the 20 P-3 Orion, 16 C-130 Hercules, 6 KC-10 Extender, 8 Nimrod AEW3, and 10 Airbus A310 for the Fuerza Aérea Mexicana.
August 20, 1994: The USS Saratoga (CV-60) is decommissioned as part of the post-Cold War military cutbacks.
September 18th, 1994: Toho and Paramount announce that a joint Godzilla project will occur in the near future. Though they do not have a script they intend it to be set in the US. The film will be produced by Tomuyiki Tanaka, Shogo Tomiyama, Francis Ford Coppala, and Jerry Wientraub.
September 20th, 1994: NASA scientists at Mare Nubium report the discovery of geological evidence detailing the origins of the lunar surface, sparking international attention....
November 1st, 1994: Masquerade of Angels by Karla Turner published, alleging that most encounters with aliens actually involve malevolent entities known as "Reptoids" that routinely rape and deceive humans...
November 23rd-26th, 1994: Pittsburgh Riots; Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with local police and residents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania proclaiming the "Circus Apocalypse"....
December 10th 1994: Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla is released. The film is about the giant monster combating an evil doppelganger. The city of Fukuoka is destroyed in the film. There is a sub-plot showing Soviet intelligence acting under the orders of the Premier G-force dealing with the politics of the space effects of the cold war.
December 11th, 1994: Philippine Airlines Flight #434, is bombed by Ramzi Yousef over Cebu, Philippines killing 273 people....
December 19th, 1994: EZLN guerillas announce control of 76 different municipalities in Chiapas, Mexico....
January 17, 1995: A magnitude 6.8 earthquake batters Japan. 6,500 people lose their lives and cost Japan 102.5 billion in damage.
January 20th, 1995: Police officials report smuggling of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
February 9th, 1995: Mexican government forces launch a massive offensive against EZLN Zapatista guerillas in Chiapas, Mexico...
February 28th, 1995: "Mir" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins"), makes its hit debut, released in the West, with hit singles "Drowning Man", "Surrender" and "Seconds"...
March 13th, 1995: Azerbaijani Uprising; General Rovshan Javadov launches an uprising against the Soviet government in Baku, calling for national independence...
March 17th, 1995: Ronald Kray seizes control of the criminal underworld through prison connections in London, England...
March 18th -19th, 1995: Michael Eisner, CEO of Walt Disney Corp., claims,"the release of government documents about ongoing alien encounters. Most Americans will likely explore outer space aboard crafts of alien origin..."
March 21st, 1995: "Dear Jesus" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut with hit singles "Act of Contrition", "Promise to Try" and "Love Song" ; Singer Kathy Konners sparks controversy after stating LGBT persons "will never experience true love", citing AIDS/HIV as "divine providence" during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine....
April 2nd, 1995: Federick Donovisco makes his professional debut in professional soccer in New York City, New York...
April 11th, 1995: Dokstok Concert; c.50,000 people attend concert by the Church of the Subgenius in Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas featuring Rape Gorilla, Pink Boys, Feltch the Bloody Stump, et al.
April 23rd, 1995: "Bitch" album by Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut, despite being banned by British and American radio stations...
May 5th, 1995: PSLV-C6 carries CARTOSAT-1 and HAMSAT satellites are launched from Sriharikota, India, signalling the nation's intent to become a commercial launch center....
May 17th, 1995: Police crackdown on the Church of the Subgenius during a "Devival" in Austin, Texas, sparking national attention...
May 24th, 1995: Toyota Motor Company celebrates the 10th anniversary of its popular "Aqua" line in Tokyo, Japan....
June 19, 1995: The Mexican government purchases two Belknap-class cruisers, ten Farragut-class guided missile destroyers, six Brooke-class guided missile frigates, thirteen Knox-class frigates, seven Uzushio-class submarines, and seven Wichita-class replenishment oilers for the Armada de México as part of their plan to modernize their military.
July 5th, 1995: Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with local police in Portland, Oregon, leading to the arrest of 18 members...
July 22nd, 1995: Long Hot Summer (DC Comics) by D.G. Chichester details the sudden onset of violence within the "Earth-D", mirroring concerns about race relations....
August 6th-9th, 1995: Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with police and local residents in Cleveland, Ohio as part of their "Devival"....
September 15th, 1995: Mario Cuomo Announces his re-election campaign...
October 7, 1995: The Japanese government unveils the Mitsubishi F-2 Viper Zero. The F-2 is based on the F-16 Agile Falcon and has significant electronic improvements over the F-16C/D Block 50/52. The Japanese government orders 168 F-2s for the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force.
October 18th, 1995: Soviet officials announce that a "socialist market economy" is the goal of reforms in Moscow....
October 30, 1995: Quebec votes 50% to 49% in favour of sovereignty amid wide spread evidence of fraud on both sides...
November 5th, 1995: The final part of House of Cards begins. The Final Cut is about the end of Prime Minister Urquhart's career. It ends with his own death.
November 6, 1995: An independent UN monitored referendum on the issue of Quebec separatism shows that a whopping 94 percent of Quebec residents wish to stay as Canadians.
November 18th, 1995: Gangotri Mission members led by Dr. Harsh K. Gupta begin India's second manned mission to the lunar surface, sparking international tensions between India and Pakistan....
November 23rd, 1995: Dirty nuclear bomb explosion in Izmailovsky Park in Moscow planted by Chechen guerilla Shamil Basayev, sparks international concern about the safety of Soviet nuclear weapons....
December 9th 1995: Godzilla: G-Killer The American Japanese co-production is released. The film has many large Japanese names as well as American actors like, Tom Cruise, Micheal Douglas, and introducing a young actor named Clark Gregg. The films plot deals with Godzilla attacking Los Angles and the military response the film use of Suitmation and CGI. It Also is the first film to show (insert new air force weapon in here ). It is a smash hit. Also on this day, The USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
December 14, 1995: The Dayton peace Agreements are signed ending the Croatian offensive into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
December 30, 1995: The last of the Israeli Air Force's 92 Lavi fighters is completed. Work starts on South Africa's order of 56 Lavi fighters.
January 9th, 1996: Battle of Kizlyar; Soviet troops are sent into Kizlyar, in an effort to contain Chechen guerillas after 2,000 civilians are taken hostage; 145 people are killed in the rescue attempt...
February 2nd-18th, 1996: "Slack Crusade Tour"; Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with local residents in Chicago, IL; Madison, WI; Minneapolis, MN; Saint Louis, MO; Cleveland, OH; Pittsburgh, PA; Baltimore, MD; New York City, NY; and Boston, MA; sparking small riots in their wake...
March 16, 1996: Saint Pierre and Miquelon are ceded to Canada from France. The islands are designated as part of the province of Quebec.
March 23, 1996: The Canadian government purchases 232 Leopard 2 MBTs, 140 M2 Bradley IFVs, 765 LAV III IFVs, 56 AAV-7A1 amphibious assault vehicles, and 560 upgrade M113 APCs. The total costs of everything is ~4 billion dollars.
April 16th, 1996: "Evil Empire" album by rap artist Engine Jammer makes its hit debut with singles "Revolver", "Snakecharmer", and "Without a Face"...
May 18, 1996: The first Northrop F-23 Phantasm stealth air superiority fighter roles off the production line. The United States Air Force will eventually receive some 750 which will replace the oldest F-15 Eagles and F-16 Fighting Falcons.
May 31st, 1996: The Arrival starring Charlie Sheen and Ron Silver details a covert invasion of Earth, by the "originators of the 1977 Wow! Signal", making its hit film debut....
July 5th, 1996: X-Day Rehearsal is held in Portland, Oregon, with minimal violence, but with a heavy police presence....
July 26, 1996: The HMAS Collins (SSG-73) is commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy. It is the first of eight Collins-class hunter killer submarines. Its sister ships are named HMAS Farncomb (SSG-74), HMAS Waller (SSG-75), HMAS Dechaineux (SSG-76), HMAS Sheean (SSG-77), HMAS Rankin (SSG-78), HMAS Sinclair (SSG-79), and HMAS Harrington (SSG-80). The Collins-class submarines are 254 feet (77.42 meters) in length, have a crew of 58, are equipped with the Thales Type 2040 sonar, and are armed with six 533mm torpedo tubes.
July 31, 1998: The first ship of the Gwanggaeto the Great-class, the ROKS Gwanggaeto the Great (DDH-971) is commissioned into the Republic of Korea Navy. The Gwanggaeto the Great is 445 feet (135.5 meters) in length, has a displacement of 3900 tons full load, a pair of Westland Lynx helicopters, and a crew of 286.. It is armed with an Oto Melara 127mm/54-caliber naval gun, 2 Signaal 30mm Goalkeeper CIWS, 2 Mark 141 Harpoon missile launchers, 1 Mark 48 Mod 2 VLS, and 2 324mm triple fire torpedo tubes.
August 22nd 1996: The last of the MiG-23 series is cut up for scrap marking the end of the planned reduction in aircraft althought the 'Badger' series is also now being looked at for decomissioning.
August 24th, 1996: ACT UP! bombs Stadtlander's Department Store in New York City, New York killing 4 people....
September 7, 1996: The USS United States (CVN-75) is launched from Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. It replaces the recently decommissioned USS America (CV-66).
September 11th, 1996: Penthouse magazine publishes alleged photographs of aliens fom Roswell, New Mexico, sparking international attention....
September 18th 1998: The Kirov Class Battlecruiser Leonid Brezhnev is comissioned into service with the Northern Fleet, her sister and sixth of the class to be laid down the Nikita Khruschev is due to enter service in 1999. The other Kirov class vessels will be refitted once the two new ships are in service to upgrade their electronics and weapon systems. The battlecruisers will form the central part of the escort groups for the new Carriers Ulyanovsk and Riga whilst the keels for their sisters the Tbilisi and Murmansk are to be laid down within the next few months.Production of the Sovremenny and Udaloy classes continues.
October 1st, 1996: "Forgotten Ice" by the Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Wire" and "Promenade"...
October 10, 1996: The Canadian government purchases 78 ASW helicopters (based on the Sikorsky S-92 Superhawk design), 32 AugustaWestland AW101 Merlins for SAR duties, 136 Bell 412s (with more powerful engines), 46 OH-58D Kiowa Warriors, and 40 Boeing CH-47D Chinooks for 1.18 billion dollars.
November 11, 1996: The Royal Highland Regiment of Canada and Voltigeurs de Quebec are reactivated as active units of the Canadian Army.
December 7th, 1996: Godzilla VS. Destroyah is released, it is another US-Japan co-production. The film deals with Godzilla fighting the monster Destroyah Created from the Oxygen-destroyer of the first film. The ending shocks many, Godzilla Dies! But Godzilla's son becomes another Godzilla.
December 15th, 1996: UFO activist Debbie Jordan tells reporters on 20/20 (ABC-TV) that,"I feel as if they're pretty much done with what they've been doing for a while, and the time is drawing very near, very quickly, that we're going to be ready for what they have planned next, and I think it's going to be open contact. I think that there's going to be a lot of admissions made by a lot of people, way up in the "high-ups," and the "should-knows," that are going to finally talk. I think that big, big things are right on the horizon..."
December 25th, 1996: Evita starring Madonna and Jeremy Irons, based on the msical by Andrew Lloyd webber, makes its hit debut....
January 20th, 1997: Socially conscious rap artist Engine Jammer performs on Radio Free Los Angeles, with video segments by Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore, and Leonard Peltier....
January 31, 1997: The INS Vikrant (R11) is decommissioned. The Indian government decides to keep the Vikrant as a maritime museum docked at Mumbai.
February 6, 1997: The British government in conjunction with the British Archaeological Association announces a new 40 million pound project to catalogue and link all historical languages on Earth. A spokesman for the BAA said the project will be used to track the evolution migration of human culture through the use of language.
March 13th, 1997: National Organization for Women (NOW) proposes a ban on "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) to counter Republican efforts to ban federal funding for Planned Parenthood...
March 15th, 1997: Former Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski states he has "no regrets giving arms and advice to future terrorists..." during a lecture in New York City, New York...
March 24, 1997: The United Kingdom surprised the world by officially recognizing the Canadian claim to the North West passage. While Australia and Taiwan had already made the announcement several months ago the statement from the United Kingdom lends incredible weight to the Canadian argument that the passage constitutes part of its ‘internal waters’. With the United Kingdoms history and dependency on ocean travel, many countries will take this proclamation as the correct verdict. A spokesman for the United Kingdom released the following statement.
“The waters through the Canadian Arctic differ only from the waters of other nations in scale. These waters are surrounded only by Canadian soil. Current maritime laws deal best with Open Ocean not the complex and intertwined waters of the North West Passage.”
If the North West passage is officially recognized by the world and the United nations to being Canadian Internal waters, Canada would have jurisdiction to police, enforce and even deny entry to ships based on Canadian law.
March 26th, 1997: Tesla Motors unveils the "Tesla Model S" family sedan in San Carlos, California, sparking interest in the market for electric vehicles nationwide....
April 13, 1997: The University of Taipei has announced the most successful and most efficient test of controlling plasma to date. Using two differently charged plasma sources and setting the two in rotation around each other researchers at the University created a stable bubble of plasma for over 5 seconds without the use of containing magnetic fields. It is hoped this line of research will move forward toward more efficient fusion power plants and better ion engine for space exploration probes.
April 22nd, 1997: The Magic 7 (NBC-TV) animated film starring John Candy,Michael J. Fox, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, and Ice-T, makes its hit debut....
April 24th, 1997: Richard Boylan leads a rally outside White Sands Missile Base in New Mexico, proclaiming to 436 people that UFOs are about to land...
May 20th, 1997: Criminal syndicates begin the sale and trade of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) throughout Sweden...
June 16th, 1997: "Remember the Men In Black" single by Will Smith (featuring Michael Jackson) makes its hit debut....
June 27th, 1997: NASA scientists led by Roberta Score uncover meteorites from the planet Mars on the lunar surface at Mare Tranquilitas, sparking international attention and concern....
July 5th, 1997: X-Day Rehearsal is held in Portland, Oregon, with minimal violence, but with a heavy police presence....
July 8th, 1997: Pat Robertson posits that UFOs are actually demonic in origin and suggests enthusiasts be stoned...
July 11th, 1997: Contact based on a screenplay by Carl Sagan, details the first months of the "1977 Wow Signal", starring Matthew McConaughey and Jodie Foster, sparking international attention....
July 17th, 1997: MSNBC-TV credits Tesla Motors as one of the "new giants" in the automotive field during a broadast from New York City, New York....
July 27, 1997: The Canadian science fiction show Stargate SG-1 premieres on television. The series will span 242 episodes across eleven seasons and have two spinoff series (Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe) and several movies.
August 7, 1997: The British Army conducts a simulated quarantine mad cow outbreak and containment in the county of Wiltshire. An estimated 70 bought cows, both dairy and beef varieties, were rounded up and destroyed to give experience in the large scale disposal of contaminated beef and effective quarantine procedures. A spokesman for the Armed forces said such ‘preventive measures simulation’ would help to limit future outbreak should any arise.
August 8, 1997: Federico Donovisco is transferred to Juventus Turin for $34.9 million, making him the most expensive US player ever. Also on this day, Mexico City Riots; Riots erupt in Mexico City, amidst reports of UFOs being seen over the city, sparking international attention and concern...
August 15th, 1997: Event Horizon starring Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill, directed by first time director Frederick Schoen, makes its hit debut...
September 21st, 1997: Cooking Up Love book by "Inay's" Chairman Martin Algarra becomes a major bestseller....
October 24th, 1997: Ivo A. Benda establishes the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" movement in Prague, Czechoslovakia, calling for resistance to Communist authorities...
November 3, 1997: Researchers for the University of Taipei made a breakthrough in solid-state memory storage. A 1 cm cube of pure are officially grown crystal was successfully encoded with 5MB of data and read using three-dimensional mapping techniques. With the successful first step in three-dimensional solid state memory storage the researchers will continue to reduce the necessary material required to store data. The research is confident that within 10 years there will be research grade memory storage at the quantum level and within 15 commercially viable versions.
November 12th, 1997: The American series The House of Cards premieres. It is about Republican Senator Frances Urquhart's rise. She goes from Whip to Majority leader to and eventually President. This role will get Susan Sarandon and her co-stars numerous Emmey wins.
November 17, 1997: Federico Donovisco shoots the decisive goal for the USA in a playoff against AFC member South Korea, the US winning 2-0. The US qualifies for the World Cup.
November 19th, 1997: Elvis Presley guest-stars on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (CBS-TV), singing several of his gospel songs...
December 15th, 1997: Space Moose (TV-MA) is approved for broadcast on The Comedy Channel...
January 13th, 1998: Alfredo Ormando leads a rally calling for the Vatican to accept LGBT members into the Roman Catholic Church; Also on this day, Federico Donovisco wins a $75 million advertising contract with NIKE, and a $25 million contract with Pepsi-Cola, making Donovisco the highest paid soccer player worldwide...
January 29th, 1998: Tesla Motors is initially offered as publicly optioned stock in New York City, New York, as one of the fastest growing industries on the NYSE and NASDAQ....
February 4th, 1998: Microsoft CEO Bill Gates is wounded while in Brussels, Belgium by Noel Godin, sparking concerns about anti-American sentiment in Europe....
March 23rd, 1998: Contact wins the Oscar for Best Picture; William H. Macy wins Best Supporting Actor for his perormance as President Jimmy Carter; at the Academy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California....
March 28, 1998: Scottish researchers at University of Edinburgh create the highest density battery cell to date with an experimental energy storage density of 25 MJ/kg. While the battery created requirements for production preclude large scale manufacturing, the information learned from the constructions is considered useful for potentially doubling or tripling current energy storage density for commercial batteries.
April 5th, 1998: Actor Tom Hanks is launched into space as a "space tourist" at Cape Canaveral, Florida...
April 10, 1998: The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Belfast aboard the Mexican destroyer escort ARM Manuel Azueta (D111).
May 21st, 1998: Tesla Motors announces a "strategic alliance" with Toyota Motor Company in a press conference in San Francisco, California....
June 28, 1998: Donovisco scores a penalty in the 90+3'rd minute of the 1/8-final match of the world cup: USA vs. Italy. Due to Italy playing Catenaccio (=defense-only), the match had been 0-0. Italy has to go home.
June 29, 1998: Italian Congress starts an investigation into the match, sparking tensions between the United States and Italy....
June 30th, 1998: Pamela Stonebrooke claims to have had sexual contact with "Reptoids" in her book Experiencer: A Jazz Singer’s True Account of Extraterrestrial Contact. Also on this day, Federico Donovisco sparks national controversy after insulting President Mario Cuomo during a match in Washington D.C.,...
July 5th, 1998: X-Day Riots; Members of the Church of the Subgenius clash with police and local residents, proclaiming the "landing of the alien fleet" in several major cities in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain...
July 6th, 1998: National polls show c.670,000 people nationwide believe they have been the subject of alien abduction in Prague, Czechoslovakia;Also on this day, The US loses the semifinal of the World Cup against a really offensive-playing Dutch team, 1-0. Even Donovisco could not save the US.
July 11th, 1998: Socially-conscious rap music artist Engine Jammer sparks controversy after meeting with members of EZLN in Chiapas, Mexico...
July 20th, 1998: Actress Jodie Foster comes out of the closet during a press conference in Los Angeles, California, with life-partner Cydney Bernard...
July 25, 1998: The USS United States (CVN-75) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
August 8th, 1998: Bonbrovnik Riots; Riots erupt in Bobrovnik, Czechoslovakia after members of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" proclaim a UFO landing...
August 22nd, 1998: A jar of androstenedione is found in the locker of Stefan Effenberg in the Bayern Munich club house. Although not a steroid, it is a precursor, sparking international controversy...
September 2, 1998: A Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 suffers major mechanical problems and crashes off of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. Rescue teams from the USS Arleigh Burke and HMCS Huron manage to rescue 32 people from the crash.
September 28th, 1998: Albanian Uprising; Fatos Nano leads pro-democracy uprising in Tirana, Albania, sparking fears of a Soviet crackdown...
September 30, 1998: The USS Independence (CV-62) is decommissioned as part of the post-Cold War military cutbacks.
October 7th, 1998: Ivo A. Benda, leader of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" movement warns of the threat of "Saurian beings" during a rally in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
October 16th, 1998: "You Can't Rock Me" album by the Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Dance Little Sister", "Luxury", and "Short and Curlies"....
October 20th, 1998: "Where Life Begins" album by Kathy Konners sparks controversy with its pro-life/anti-abortion message, with hit singles "Why It's So Hard", "In This Life", "Where Life Begins" and "Waiting"
November 11th, 1998: Mayor Willie Brown is assassinated during a rally at City Hall in San Francisco, California by members of the Biotic Defense Brigade (BDB), sending shockwaves nationwide...
November 13, 1998: Michael Trudeau, the youngest son of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau is killed in an avalanche while skiing at British Columbia’s Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park.
November 14th, 1998: Chandrayaan-1 is launched from Sriharikota, India as Moon Impact Probe (MIP), sparking international attention....
January 1st, 1999: David Icke posits that the world is being secretly controlled by demonic/alien "Reptoids" (aka "Draconians") in his work The Biggest Secret...
January 25th, 1999: Former baseball player Joe DiMaggio dies of congestive heart failure in San Francisco, California, sparking international attention....
February 17, 1999: It is revealed that the A and B tests of Donovisco after a match played by Juventus Turin against AC Siena on September 9, 1997 were positive.
February 18, 1999: Donovisco denies ever having used steroids and attributes the positive results to a "medicine" of an unspecified type...
February 19, 1999: Gennaro Marchisio, prominent defender at AC Milan, accuses forward Donovisco of having deliberately used steroids...
March 2nd, 1999: 90th Anniversary of the first "Hybrid Vehicle" by Henri Pieper is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan....
March 9th, 1999: "The Disappeared" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") is banned by Soviet officials, but becomes a major hit worldwide with hit singles "Trip Through Your Wires", "Exit" and "The Disapeared. It is considered one of the best, and also one of the most politically loaded albus of the band...
March 19th, 1999: With the opening of "Inay's" in Moscow, Russia, "Inay's" reports 2,498 restaurants worldwide in a press conference in San Francisco, California.....
April 11th, 1999: "2000 Tesla Roadster", the first ZEV roadster is unveiled in Palo Alto, California, sparking national attention amongst car enthusiasts....
May 26, 1999: Bayern Munich wins the Champions League with 6-5 after penalty shootout, after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hits the post after Beckham's corner and the penalty shot by Jaap Stam is saved by Oliver Kahn.
July 4th, 1999: Soccer player Federico Donovisco sparks national attention after marrying singer/actress Jennifer Lopez in a private ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada...
July 9th-14th, 1999: Iranian Revolution; Democratic rebellion led by Mohammad Khatami, overthrows the government in Tehran, Iran...
August 19th, 1999: Andris Blakis is arrested in Los Angeles, California after a co-worker suffers radiation poisoning due to phosphorous-32,...
August 27th, 1999: The Astronaut's Wife starring Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron, directed by Frederick Schoen....
November 2nd, 1999: "Guerilla Radio" album by rap artist Engine Jammer makes its hit debut with singles "Born of a Broken Man", "Voice of the Voiceless", "Ashes in the Fall", and "War Within a Breath"...
November 11, 1999: The 8th Canadian Hussars and the Ontario Regiment of the Royal Canadian Armored Corps were to be returned to the Regular Force.
December 30th, 1999: Former Beatles member George Harrison is killed by celebrity stalker Michael Abram in Friar Park, England...
January 14th, 2000: Supernova starring James Spader, Angela Bassett, and Robert Forster, directed by Frederick Schoen, makes its hit debut, many critics state it "reinvents the genre"....
January 26th, 2000: Socially conscious rap artist Engine Jammer sparks a small brawl after throwing $1,000 in $20 bills on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, New York proclaiming,"This is your god!"
February 5th, 2000: Prague Riots; Riots erupt in Prague, Czechoslovakia after government forces prevent followers attempt to gather in Prague, to "witness the landing of the "Ptaah Squadron"..."
February 7th, 2000: Forbes magazine publishes its endorsement of commercial space travel, sparking international attention for investors...
March 31st, 2000: Singer Kathy Konners sparks controversy while appearing on The Tonight Show (NBC-TV) hosted by Conan O'Brian, by calling upon youth to take "chastity pledges" in Los Angeles, California....
April 23rd, 2000: "Crazy Mama" album by Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut, despite condemnation by women's groups with the song "Pop That Cherry"...
September 9th, 2000: Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the First Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
September 12, 2000: The Brazilian aircraft carriers NAeL Sao Paulo (ex-Foch) and NAeL Rio de Janiero (ex-Clemenceau) are commissioned into the Brazilian Navy replacing the aging Minas Gerais.
September 17th, 2000: Soviet journalist Georgiy Gongadze defects to the United States in Berlin, Germany.....
October 10th, 2000: "Freedom for My People" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") is released nationwide, despite government attempts of censorship with hit singles "Freedom for My People", "Love Rescue Me", and "Heartland"...
October 25th, 2000: "Love Tried to Welcome Me" album by Kathy Konners, makes its hit debut with singles "Sanctuary", "Don't Stop" and "Inside of Me", amidst rumors of sexually explicit themes within the songs...
November 7th, 2000: George W. Bush looses the elections after it was proven by CBS News that he was a draftdodger where John Kerry did his Military Service.
George.W Bush (Rep) 43%
John Kerry (Dem) 47%
January 10, 2001: Britain proposes that the Turks and Caicos Islands become part of Canada.
January 14th, 2001: Canadian officials legalize medical marijuana dispenseries nationwide, sparking international attention in Ottawa, Ontario....
January 21st, 2001: 250,000 people gather in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China demanding political and civil reforms nationwide...
February 20th, 2001: Chinese leaders announce martial law due to pro-democracy rallies in Beijing, China sparking international condemnation....
March 6th, 2001: Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) launch a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square, Chinese officials report c. 1,400 deaths in Beijing, China...
March 17th, 2001: British officials unveil the "New Eden" self-sustaining domed arcology, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw in Cornwall, Great Britain. It will serve as a model for other arcologies across the globe....
March 20, 2001: The Canadian government agrees to allow the Turks and Caicos Islands to join Canada on the condition that they vote on it in a referendum.
April 1st, 2001: FIFA implements its first random drug-testing program in the minor leagues. All players not on a team’s 40-man roster are subject to random testing for performance-enhancing drugs. The penalty for a first positive test is 15 games. Players testing positive five times will receive a lifetime ban.
April 27th, 2001: With the opening of "Inay's" Filipino food restaurant in Switzerland and Austria, "Inay's" reports 4,709 restaurants worldwide in San Francisco, California...
May 3, 2001: The referendum is hold and the results show that 82 percent of Turks and Caicos Islands residents wish to join Canada.
May 18, 2001: The MN Charles de Gaulle (R91) is commissioned into the Marine Nationale (French Navy).
May 25th, 2001: Singer Kathy Konners headlines "Festival Con Dios" in Murray, Kentucky, amidst controversy over her Christian fundamentalist beliefs...
June 1, 2001: The Turks and Caicos Islands become the fourth territory of Canada.
June 7th, 2001: Adventure Network International (ANI) announces that it will be launching civilian and corporate tourists to the lunar surface, during a press conference in Los Angeles, California....
July 4th, 2001: Space Moose: Millennium Moose is released in theaters, proving to be a sleeper hit...
September 8th, 2001: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the Second Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
October 19th, 2001: Royal Space Force: Blue Uru by Hiroyuki Yamaga details the efforts of an alien race to develop a FTL drive, highlighting the latest in anime techniques.....
November 27th, 2001: Tensions mount across the globe as North Korean troops exchange gunfire with American troops, killing 6 American soldiers and 8 North Korean soldiers...
December 12th, 2001: Irv Rubin, Jewish Defense League kills Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) in Culver City, California...
January 10th, 2002: Ivo A. Benda, leader of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" warns on state television of "Projekt: Porucha", an alleged Soviet plot to implant "control chips" into the minds of people in Prague, Czechoslovakia..
February 5, 2002: A Norwegian-negotiated ceasefire brought peace to Sri Lanka for the first time in 15 years.
March 15th, 2002: Seoul Riots; 250,000 protesters led by Lee Dong-an clash with police officials in Seoul, South Korea...
April 11th, 2002: American-backed pro-democracy revolution led by Pedro Carmona, overthrows the government in Caracas, Venezuela....
May 22nd, 2002: The Apocalypse starring Rhett Giles and Jill Stapley makes its hit film debut....
June 9th, 2002: "Shattered" album by Irish band Apex Predator, makes its hit debut with the hit singles "Far Away Eyes", "Beast of Burden" amd "Shattered"...
June 11th, 2002: American Idol (UPN-TV) hosted by Simon Cowell and Cindy Lauper makes its hit television debut in Hollywood, California...
June 22, 2002: Senegal wins after El-Hadji Diouf scores a Golden Goal in the 91st minute of extra time.
June 29th, 2002: U.S. and South Korean naval forces clash with North Korean naval vessels as they cross the Northern Limit Line...
August 7th, 2002: FIFA players and owners agree to their first joint drug program since 1985, calling for anonymous testing to begin in 2003. If more than five percent of the steroid tests are positive in 2003 or 2004, players would be randomly tested for a two-year period. Players won’t be punished for testing positive.
September 3rd, 2002: Musician Lance Bass, N'Sync, is launched into space at Cape Canaveral, Florida
September 7th, 2002: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the Third Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
September 20th, 2002: Firefly (UPN-TV) starring Nathan Fillion, written and directed by Joss Whedon, makes its hit television debut..,
October 22nd, 2002: Ivo A. Benda, leader of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" warns on state television of "Projekt: Porucha", an alleged Soviet plot to implant "control chips" into the minds of people in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
October 25th, 2002: Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) narrowly survives a plane crash outside the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill...
November 1st, 2002: Victoria Beckham, wife of soccer player David Beckham, is kidnapped and held for ransom in London, England...
November 2nd, 2002: Five people are arrested in Los Angeles, California, suspected of plotting a kidnapping attempt on the two children of Federico Donovisco and Jennifer Lopez...
November 14th, 2002: U.S. F-18s launch air strikes at enriched uranium facilities in Pyongyang, North Korea....
November 16th, 2002: U.S. naval forces fire warning shots at North Korean naval vessels as they cross the Northern Limit Line...
November 20th, 2002: South Korean naval forces fire warning shots at North Korean naval vessels as they cross the Northern Limit Line...
November 23rd-24th, 2002: Battle of Kwangju; U.S. military forces successfully resist North Korean offensive against Kwangju, South Korea....
November 25th, 2002: Ivo A. Benda, leader of the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" warns of "Projekt: Porucha", an alleged Soviet plot to implant "control chips" into the minds of people in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Also on this day, Siege of Seoul; North Korean forces launch a failed massive siege of Seoul, South Korea...
December 16, 2002: Canada signs the Kyoto Accord, limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
December 17, 2002: The Quebec City police arrest many people in a child prostitution bust that includes many well-known people of the city.
December 20th, 2002: Firefly (UPN-TV) is proclaimed by Variety magazine, "UPN-TV, the network that Joss Whedon built...."
December 27th, 2002: Chicago starring Christina Applegate flops at the box office, despite positive film reviews...
January 12, 2003: White supremacists/Neo-Nazis hijack several planes and destroy the Reichstag (Bonn) , the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the Deutsche Bank Tower and the Phollipsburg NPP. 5067 people are killed.
January 16, 2003: After achieving orbit, the crew of the space shuttle Columbia is informed that a piece of foam broke off and damaged the thermal protection system. The Columbia crew is ordered to head to and dock with the ISS until the Atlantis is prepped for launch..
January 17, 2003: Jürgen Möllemann, Minister of Foreign Affairs, says that "a religious motive for the 1/12 attacks can be ruled out".
January 19, 2003: The "Kommando Adolf Hitler" declare themselves responsible for the attacks. Friedrich Merz, State Secretary/Minister of Domestic Affairs, says that "we have to fight the BAF" (Braune Armee Fraktion). 2003-2005: A full-blown purge against all right-leaning officials takes place. Several upper officials of the Verfassungsschutz and the police are fired and some even arrested. Also on this day, U.S. air strikes destroy Sanseong-dong, repelling North Korean positions, but killing c. 82 people as "collateral damage"....
January 26th, 2003: The Daily Show (ABC-TV) hosted by Jon Stewart makes its hit television debut....
February 13th, 2003: U.S. Defense Department apologizes for the actions taken at Sanseong-dong, during a press conference in Washington D.C.,...
February 19, 2003: The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched from Cape Canaveral to the ISS with supplies to repair the Columbia's thermal protection system.
February 22, 2003: The Columbia and Atlantis return home after successfully repairing the Columbia. The entire incident increases support for NASA...
February 24th, 2003: North Korean military forces unveil SCUD missile launchers in Pyongyang, North Korea...
March 2nd, 2003: Sea of Japan Incident; North Korean MiG-17s shoot down an American reconnaisance plane over the Sea of Japan, sparking tensions across the Pacific Rim...
March 10th, 2003: Tensions mount as U.S. reconnaisance sattellites report that North Korea has positioned SCUD misile launchers around the city of Pyongyang....
March 21st, 2003: Anti-war demonstrations are held in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Chicago, Atlanta, Georgia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, sparking national attention...
March 24th, 2003: U.S. State Department officials unveil satellite evidence of nuclear weapons development by the Changgwang Sinyong Corporation in Pyongyang, sparking fears of a regional nuclear conflict...
April 7th, 2003: Anti-war demonstrations shutdown the Port of Oakland, amidst concern over a possible draft in Oakland, California..
April 9, 2003: Australia commissions its first Spruance-class multirole destroyer, the HMAS New South Wales (DDGH-41), into the Royal Australian Navy. Its sister ships are the HMAS Queensland (DDGH-42), HMAS South Australia (DDGH-43), HMAS Tasmania (DDGH-44), HMAS Victoria (DDGH-45), and HMAS Western Australia (DDGH-46).
April 12th, 2003: ANSWER Coalition launches anti-war demonstrations in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles, sparking international attention...
April 16th, 2003: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro dies of a heart attack in Havana, Cuba, sparking a succession crisis within the Communist state...
April 23rd-25th, 2003: Trilateral peace talks held in Beijing, between the United States, North Korea and the People's Republic of China collapse amidst accusations of "gunboat diplomacy"....
May 1st, 2003: Filipino food chain restaurant "Inay's" announces that it has 6,400 restaurants across the globe,during a press conference in San Francisco, California...
May 12th, 2003: North Korean leaders threaten to escalate the conflict with the possible launch of nuclear weapons at Tokyo, Japan and Seoul, South Korea during a state televised speech from Pyongyang, North Korea....
June 1st, 2003: Marijuana is legalized in parliamentary elections in Brussels, Belgium, sparking international attention and concern,...
June 30, 2003: The MOST Space Telescope is launched into orbit. It is the first space telescope dedicated to astroseismology. Most is both Canada’s first space telescope as well as the Worlds’ smallest one.
July 12, 2003: The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
July 15th, 2003: U.S. military announces successful airstrikes against North Korean nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, North Korea....
July 27th, 2003: Singer Enrique Iglesias and Soccer player Federico Donovisco begin a friendship after meeting during a soccer match in Miami, Florida...
August 7, 2003: The USS Constellation (CV-64) is decommissioned. It is replaced by the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76).
August 25th-27th, 2003: Six-party peace talks between North Korea, United States, People's Republic of China, South Korea, Russia, and Japan collapse in Beijing amidst accusations of "human rights violations"....
September 6th, 2003: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the Third Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia; Also on this day, The United States and Iran officially normalize diplomatic relations with each other.
September 12th, 2003: Political activist Ralph Nader is assassinated at a rally for gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo in San Francisco, California, sparking civil unrest and panic.....
October 6th, 2003: U.S. Department of Transportation reports that there are c. 3 million Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) on the roads across the United States....
October 7th, 2003: Canadian Parliament announce that same-sex marriages will be recognized by the government, sparking international attention and concern,....
October 25th, 2003: Anti-war demonstrations erupt in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Reno, Nevada and other cities across the globe...
November 6th, 2003: North Korean ambassador Ri Yong Ho defects in London, England warning that the North Korean military has a working nuclear weapon....
November 12th, 2003: Yokohoma Disaster; North Korean forces, in a last-ditch effort of a negotiated settlement launch a SCUD missile at Yokohoma, killing c. 8,420 people, the single largest civilian loss of life by Japan and the United States since World War II...
November 13th, 2003: FIFA announces that of 1,438 anonymous tests in the 2003 season, between five and seven percent were positive, triggering the start of random testing with penalties in 2004. A first offense will lead to counseling and a second offense to a 15-day suspension.
November 15th, 2003: Toyota, Nissan, and Honda resume auto production for the first time since the Yokohoma Disaster...
November 16th, 2003: Nikkei Stock Market falls 32% amidst foreign fears of radiation in Tokyo Japan...
November 19th, 2003: "Operation Barabossa" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Until the End of the World", "So Cruel" and "Mysterious Ways"....
November 20th, 2003: 128 nations begin transporting humanitarian aid to Yokohoma, sparking outrage from North Korea....
November 23rd, 2003: Tblisi Uprising; Soviet officials declare martial law after Eduard Shevardnadze is assassinated by Georgian nationalists...
November 24th, 2003: "Music for Relief" album is organized by Apex Predator, Kathy Konners, in an effort to provide humanitarian relief to the victims of the Yokohoma Disaster...
November 26th, 2003: Timeline starring Paul Walker and Gerard Butler, directed by Frederick Schoen, flops at the box office. It is considered the only box office loss of the director...
November 30, 2003: The ROKS Chungmugong Yi Sun-shin (DDH-975) is commissioned into the Republic of Korea Navy. It is 492 feet (150 meters) in length, has a displacement of 4500 tons standard (and 5520 tons full load), and a crew of 300. It is the first of six Chungmugong Yu Sun-shin-class destroyers to be built.
December 1st, 2003: A large and heavily escorted convoy of ships carrying relief supplies as well as medics arrives in Yokohama. The crews are all volunteers and for the most part are military. Supplies, shelters, donated clothing and goods and more are flown to the safe zones and refugee camps whilst specialist NBC teams from the US, UK, France, Germany and the Soviet Union go into Yokohama itself.
December 13th, 2003: Japanese Diet reports that the national economy has contracted c. 7.4% due to the Yokohoma Disaster...
December 15th, 2003: More convoys arrive with food and supplies, many donated to charities that have sprung up in the wake of the attack. The biggest contributer is the Music for Relief event which became the biggest public charity donation since Band Aid.
January 8, 2004: Daimler-Chrysler CEO Jürgen Schrempp is assassinated by the IACA (International Anti-Car Army). They claim that they "wanted to force Daimler to only build ecological cars".
March 3rd, 2004: "Sky Fits Heaven" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut with hit singles "Little Star", "To Have and Not to Hold", and "Has to Be"....
May 17th, 2004: First "Inay's" Union is established worldwide in San Francisco, California....
May 18, 2004: Stargate: The Lost City appears on the big screen. It is considered by many to a resounding success.
May 19th, 2004: Comedian Andy Kaufman announces a comedy concert tour in New York City, New York, after living away from the public eye....
May 26th, 2004: Singer Jennifer Hudson wins American Idol (UPN-TV) sparking national attention...
June 4th, 2004: c. 100,000 people protest the visit of U.S. President to the Vatican City in Rome, Italy....
June 5th, 2004: ANSWER Coalition launches anti-war protests in Washington D.C. and San Francisco, California calling for the withdrawal of troops from the Korean peninsula....
June 20th, 2004: "Down in the Hole" album by the Irish band Apex Predator. makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Where the Boys Go", "Dance" and "Let Me Go"....
July 8th, 2004: Pattern Recognition film based on the novel by William Gibson, starring Lorelei King, makes its hit film debut, based on the fear that aliens are behind "electronic voice phenomena"....
July 16, 2004: Stargate Atlantis premieres on international television. The series will last for seven seasons and have 154 episodes.
August 8, 2004: The AIDC F-ZS-2 Zhan Sun, a Taiwanese designed twin engine air superiority fighter takes off on its first flight. It will enter active service in the Republic of China Air Force in May 2010 and have a production run of 144 fighters.
August 27th, 2004: Japanese officials report c. 341,411 refugees created by the 2003 Yokohoma Disaster, sparking concern over humanitarian aid...
September 4th, 2004: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda establish the Fourth Symposium of Love in Prague, Czechoslovakia...
September 11th, 2004: Ukranian nationalist Viktor Yushchenko is assassinated in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, after demanding independence in a pro-democracy rally...
September 24th, 2004: Civil rights activist Anna Politkovskaya is assassinated in Rostov-on-Don, while investigating government corruption within the Soviet Union...
October 4th, 2004: "Inay's" launches it's XM radio site "Hear Music" to promote Asian music and artists, sparking international attention...
October 11th, 2004: Rock musician David Bowie becomes the latest celebrity space tourist after being launched from Rendlesham, England....
October 17th, 2004: Million Worker March; AFL-CIO and SEIU organize a massive demonstration against U.S. troops in the Korean Peninsual in Washington D.C.,....
November 2nd, 2004: President John McCain (R-AZ) is elected President of the United States, amidst harsh partisan rhetoric over service in the Vietnam War, sparking national attention...
John McCain (Rep) 48%
John Kerry (Dem) 50%
November 7, 2004: Brazilian player Ribeirinho (striker of Dynamo Kiev) tests positive for performance-enhancing steroids.
November 11th, 2004: Soviet Union becomes a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after trade talks in Paris, France....
November 17, 2004: The B-test is also positive for Brazilian player Ribeirinho.
November 20, 2004: Ribeirinho is banned for two years by FIFA from all national and international play.
January 7th, 2005: White Noise starring Michael Keaton and Deborah K. Unger, based on the idea of alien radio signals, makes its hit film debut....
January 13th, 2005: FIFA players and owners reach new drug-testing agreement calling for more banned substances and for a 10-day penalty for first-time offenders. Under the agreement made in Paris, France, players failing drug tests will have their names released to the public....
January 28th, 2005: Alone in the Dark starring Christian Slater and Tara Reid, directed by Frederick Schoen, makes its hit debut displaying the director's ability to adapt video games to film....
February 2nd, 2005: Soccer player Federico Donovisco and Singer Jennifer Lopez (a.k.a. "J-Fed") give birth to their third child named Enrique in Los Angeles, California...
March 14, 2005: The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law, aimed at preventing Taiwan from declaring independence. This has the effect of angering the Taiwanese government.
March 26, 2005: The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Between 200,000 and 300,000 attend the walk.
April 15th, 2005: Religious fundamentalists launch a rebellion against the government of President Mohammad Khatami in Tehran, Iran...
May 7, 2005: The BASF main production plant in Ludwigshafen is attacked.
May 9, 2005: The NNSB (Neue Naturschutz-Bewegung) declares itself responsible.
June 23rd, 2005: House of M (Marvel Comics) by Brian Michael Bendis warns storyline warns of the "Last Days", during the X-Men based storyline...
July 3rd, 2005: Spanish officials announce the complete national decriminalization of marijuana in Madrid, Spain...
July 5th, 2005: "Numb" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, with hit singles "Babyface", "Some Days Are Beter Than Others" and "Numb"....
July 18th, 2005: Communist authorities ban the "Symposium of Love" in Prague, Czechoslovakia, sparking anger from the "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda...
July 29th, 2005: Soviet officials announce the creation of an independent global positionining system (GPS) in Baikonur, aiding the modernization of the Soviet Red Army....
August 18th-24th. 2005: Soviet and Chinese military forces launch joint military manuevers to "strengthen friendship" in Vladivostok, Soviet Union...
September 2nd, 2005: A Sound of Thunder starring Ed Burns and Ben Kingsley, directed by Frederick Schoen, solidifies Schoen as the "go-to person" regarding science fiction....
October 17th, 2005: Religious leader Eduard Albert Meier travels to Moscow, proclaiming extraterrestrial messages of world peace, sparking international attention.....
October 21st, 2005: 20/20 (ABC-TV) does an investigative report on the conditions at "Inay's" chains across the United States, sampling lumpia and pansit at different locations....
November 6th, 2005: Japanese officials announce the creation of a self-sustaining domed arcology in Tokyo, Japan, sparking international attention and concern,....
December 13th, 2005: U.S. Dpartment of Transportation reports that ZEVs account for 5.1% of U.S. vehicle sales and 3.1% of glbal vehicle sales worldwide....
December 16th, 2005: United Nations General Assembly debates the issue of response to extraterrestrial radio signals in New York City, New York, sparking religious and political debate worldwide...
February 9th, 2006: Church of the Greys led by Whitley Streiber sues The Boston Globe after it reports on apparent racist statements made by key leaders of the movement, in federal court in New York City, New York...
February 12th, 2006: Technologies of the Frontier (TDF) successfully wins passage of a petition that Europeans have a "constitutional right to space" before the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium..
February 16th, 2006: U.S./Chinese Business Council is established is established for the explicit purpose of opening trade with the People's Republic of China in Washington D.C.,...
March 1st, 2006: "Cosmic People of Light Powers" led by Ivo A. Benda seize control of Brevnov, Czechoslovakia, sparking concern within the Warsaw Pact...
March 13th, 2006: President Idriss Déby is overthrown in a military coup by brothers Tom and Timane Erdimi in N'Djamena, Chad...
March 30th, 2006: U.S. trade officials call for the repeal of "local content" requirements for auto parts in the Soviet Union, during a conference in Zurich, Switzerland....
April 4th, 2006: Soviet officials announce the completion of the "BIOS-3" self-sustaining domed arcology in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, sparking international attention and concern...
April 11th, 2006: U.S./Chinese Business Council calls upon the World Trade Organization to accept membership for the People's Republic of China into the organization, amidst great political controversy...
April 26th, 2006: "Signal to Space" concerts are held in Berlin, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; New York City, New York; and Tokyo, Japan are launched in an effort to support SETI in sending a message to extraterrestrials...
May 18th, 2006: Andrew Martinez (a.k.a. "The Naked Guy") leads a pro-nudism movement rally in Berkeley, California....
May 30th, 2006: Shah Rez Pahlavi calls for American military intervention, citing political unrest and violence in his country during a press conference in Tehran, Iran....
June 8th, 2006: Non-violent student demonstrations take place in Tehran, Iran, calling for greater political and economic reforms....
June 15th, 2006: Same-sex marriages are legalized in New Zealand, despite pressure from the Anglican and Roman Catholic Church....
July 31st, 2006: Muslim fundamentalist terrorists led by Youssef Mohamad El Hajdib, bomb trains at Hamm and Koblenz, killing 18 people, sparking racial and religious tensions throughout Germany...
August 18, 2006: The first BAe Systems Nimrod MRA.4 Maritime Patrol aircraft is delivered to the Royal Navy to replace the Nimrod MR.2. A total of 58 production model Nimrods will be built over six years.
September 11th, 2006: Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland estate, due to a heart failure in Memphis, Tennessee...
September 16, 2006: The HMAS Sirius (O-266) is commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy.
September 19th, 2006: "Amazing" album by Kathy Konners makes its hit debut, with singles "Nobody's Perfect", and "Paradise (Not For Me)" and "Gone" expressing guilt over her alleged sexual affairs...
September 27, 2006: The Greens get the Majority in the Bundestag and, in October, agree on a coalition with the SPD. Joschka Fischer becomes Chancellor of Germany. They vow to "fight the fascist, Neo-Nazi and eco-terrorist threat". The NPD, for the first time in the history of Germany, get over the 5 percent threshold and send 6 delegates.
October 6th, 2006: Local officials announce the creation of the "Co-op City" self-sustaining domed arcology, outside the Bronx in New York City, New York, sparking international attention....
October 7th, 2006: Whitley Streiber calls for religious and tax-empt status for himself and his followers in Catskills, New York, sparking national attention...
October 9, 2006: The USS William F. Halsey (CVN-77) is launched from the Newport News Shipyard. The Halsey will be commissioned on January 10, 2009.
October 18th, 2006: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Soviet Union sparks cries of "racism" by Soviet-American Friendship Alliance in New York City, New York...
November 2, 2006: Bantharbunga Volcano on Iceland erupts in earnest (similar to the eruption of 1477, , making the year 2007 a "Year without a summer" and spurring fears of an apocalyptic event on December 21, 2012....
November 2nd- 24th, 2006: Air travel is restricted over much of Europe from North America, fueling economic concerns asthe price of fuel and food rises across Europe...
November 3rd, 2006: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Soviet Union by Sacha Baron Cohen, is released, sparking instant condemnation from Soviet officials...
November 3rd, 2006: 2 Finnish F-18s crash outside of Kauhava, Finland, sparking calls for limitations on air travel throughout the European Union...
November 4th, 2006: International airspace over Germany is shutdown by order of the government, amidst concerns of air safety.....
November 5th, 2006: International airspace over the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine, is shutdown, sparking civil unrest and violence the Soviet Union....
November 15th, 2006: Soviet officials call for a ban on Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Soviet Union in Moscow...
November 19th, 2006: Singer Enrique Iglesias and tennis player Anna Kournikova are secretly married in Santa Barbara, California; Celebrity guests include Kathy Konners, Jennifer Lopez and Federico Donovisco....
December 13th, 2006: Church of the Greys led by Whitley Streiber launches a lawsuit against the New York Post for "defamation of character", after accusations of prostitution, drug-trafficking, and arms dealing, sparking international attention in New York City, New York...
December 20th, 2006: Merill Lynch illegally seizes $800 million in hedge funds from Bear Stearn's as the funds begin to implode...
January 5th, 2007: White Noise: The Light starring Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhof, makes its hit debut, detailing fears that "electronic voice phenomena" is a pretext for an alien invasion....
January 9th, 2007: Professor Stephen Hawking is launched into space as a "space tourist" courtesy of Virgin Galactic in Rendlesham, England....
January 10th, 2007: Government under President Mamadou Sylla collapses in Conarky, Guinea, sparking tensions within the region...
February 2nd, 2007: Russian scientists led by Vladimir Popovkin announce the discovery of ice at the lunar Southern Pole, holding the promise of a viable water and fuel source for space travel....
February 6th, 2007: General Ibrahim Fofana comes to power in Conarky, Guinea in a military coup, amidst food shortages in the region....
February 16th, 2007: Countrywide Financial Corporation, the largest U.S. mortgage lender collapses, sparking an immediate financial selloff of assets...
February 25th, 2007: Eddie Murphy wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Dreamgirls in Hollywood, California...
March 3rd, 2007: White House officials report that they will only accept a "limited bailout" as Ameriquest, one of the nation's alrgest home loan lenders collapses in Washington D.C.,...
March 21st, 2007: Indonesian singer Anggun signs with "Inay's" Hear Music program, to promote Asian artists and music worldwide...
April 9, 2007: The highly controversial airport building site in Hamburg (Helmut-Schmidt-Flughafen), colloquially known as "Hamburg 21", is attacked with a car bomb. Tens of thousands of DM in damage are done. It is not clear, whether eco-terrorists or the radical right is responsible. Suspicion, though, immediately falls on the radical right wing.
April 10th, 2007: U.S. trade officials claim that the Soviet government has violated Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection laws and lax enforcement, during a trip to Moscow, amidst rising anti-American sentiment...
April 12, 2007: Eco-Terrorists calling themselves the GF (Green Front) claim responsibility for the Hamburg 21 attacks.
April 19, 2007: Joschka Fischer, Claudia Roth and Jürgen Trittin issue a joint declaration, distancing themselves from "militant behavior": "This is not our policy, and it does not help the environment to attack buildings and other objects percieved as a threat. It only discredits the Green Movement and thus is harmful to it's cause." They are nevertheless criticised for distancing so late.
April 23rd, 2007: Aurigny Air Services Flight #544 crashes off the Aldreney, Great Britain, killing 25 people, amidst rumors of a "UFO sighting"...
April 27th, 2007: Martial law is declared in Ankara, Turkey after military officials block election results showing Abdullah Gül as the winner of presidential elections...
May 15th, 2007: Professional golf player Tiger Woods announces his retirement from the game, after he is declared legally blind in Palo Alto, California....
May 18 2007: The HMS Queen Elizabeth (R10) is commissioned into the Royal Navy. The three Queen Elizabeth-class supercarriers are 1075 feet in length, 250 feet wide, 36 feet tall, and has a displacement of 83,500 tons. The Queen Elizabeth-class carriers have three catapults, two elevators, and can carry 86 fixed wing aircraft and helicopters made up of the Eurofighter Typhoon, F/A-18 Hornet, E-2 Hawkeye, S-3 Viking, C-2 Greyhound, Westland Apache, AW101 Merlin, and AW159 Wildcat. The Prince of Wales is expected by be commissioned sometime in late 2010 to early 2011. The Duke of York is expected to be commissioned in mid 2012. Also on this day, U.S. and Chinese trade representatives meet in Washington D.C., to discuss intellectual property rights and protections, amidst growing trade concerns....
June 2, 2007: After an attack on the Stendal NPP, which caused major damage and in which radioactivity was leaked to the environment, and after responsibility was claimed by the ANGA (Anti-Nuclear Green Army), Chancellor Joschka Fischer and Environmental minister Cem Özdemir had to resign.
June 4th, 2007: Communist government in Vientiane, Laos is overthrown in an American-backed military coup by General Vang Pao. Also on this day, U.S. Department of Agriculture warns that crops throughout the Atlantic Seaboard and especially the New England states have been devastated by the onset of frost event in summer months....
June 6th, 2007: State officials across New England report snow from Boston, MA; to Bangor, ME, sparking fears of the onset of an Ice Age.....
June 14th-16th, 2007: Johannesburg Riots; Riots erupt in Johannesburg, South Africa amidst protests over planned cuts to public servant pay by c. 12% in an effort to meet with austerity measures....
June 18th, 2007: Zeitgesit: The Movie written and directed by Peter Joseph makes its hit debut, popularizing the "Christ myth theory" and a number of conspiracy theory-based ideas, including banker control of the government....
June 21st, 2007: Soviet Union announces that it will be joining the European Economic Community (EEC) during trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland....
July 2nd, 2007: Members of the U.S. House of Representatives travel to Beijing, in an effort to evaluate whether to open the People's Republic of China to further trade...
July 16th-20th, 2007: Demonstrations are held in Hartford, CT; Cincinnati, OH; Detroit, MI; Minneapolis, MN; and San Francisco, CA, amidst fears of lost jobs to U.S./Chinese trade...
July 28th, 2007: Rap artist Engine Jammer sparks controversy after claiming that "the FOX Network is working against the African-American community" during an interview in Los Angeles, California...
August 15th, 2007: Anti-government riots erupt in Rangoon, calling for the overthrow of the military regime....
August 21st, 2007: Local officials in Minneapolis, Minnesota announce the transformation of the city into a self-sustaining domed arcology, sparking national attention....
August 27th, 2007: Canadian officials proudly proclaim "La Ville Souterraine" (RESO) self-sustaining domed arcology in Montreal, Quebec, sparking international attention....
September 1st, 2007: Arrests are made in the "Co-Op City Scandal" as Iris Herskowitz Baez and Nickhoulas Vitale are charged in a kickback scheme regarding the arcology program....
September 10th, 2007: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) falls c.20% in one day's trading as investors express their concerns over the faltering economy, citing the environmental crisis....
September 29th, 2007: Amidst growing concerns of food riots and civil unrest, the military regime collapses in Rangoon, Burma, sparking international attention and concern,...
October 5th, 2007: Travelex, along with the British Ministry of Finance announce the creation of "QUID" space currency in London, England....
October 6th, 2007: International Red Cross officials report the need to prevent a "humanitarian disaster" during a conference in Lucerne, Switzerland....
October 18, 2007: In Karachi, Pakistan, at least 139 people are killed and 450 injured as two bombs explode near a truck carrying Benazir Bhutto during her homecoming.
October 24th, 2007: Ivo A. Benda proclaims that 95% of the world's population is under the control of "Dark Saurians" during a rally in Prague, Czechoslovakia....
November 7th, 2007: "Tie You Up (Pain of Love)" album by Irish band Apex Predator makes its hit debut with singles "Tie You Up", "Feel On Baby" and "Pretty Beat Up", despite condemnation from LGBT organizations and the Roman Catholic Church....
November 13th, 2007: French General Strike led by Bernard Thibault threaten to overthrow the government amidst food shortages and crops failures in Paris, France, sparking international attention. Also on this day, In a shocking move, Shah Reza Pahlavi calls for a roundup of suspected LGBT persons as "foreign spies" and criminals in a televised address in Tehran, Iran....
November 14th-17th, 2007: German General Strike is led by Wolfgang Tiefensee shutdown the railways and public transportation throughout Germany, starting in Berlin....
November 17th 2007: President Sarkozy declares martial law in European France.
November 19th 2007: Generation Identitaire, a group of dissatisfied youths is founded (IOTL founded in 2011) They declare war against multi-culturalism and youth unemployment
November 20th 2007: President Köhler declares martial law in Germany. The Bundestag is dissolved until February 1st 2008.
November 22nd, 2007: Temperatures drop across the New York Tri-State area to c.-26 Fahrenheit, allowing people to drive on the ice from Brooklyn to Governor's Island....
November 27th, 2007: U.S. trade officials accuse the Soviet Union of violating copyright media laws, amidst worsening economic conditions in both countries during trade talks in Paris, France...
November 28th, 2007: The Amazing Spiderman (Marvel Comics) #544 is released, launching the "One More Day" storyline by J. Michael Straczynski, after Aunt May Parker dies...
December 1st 2007: Start of the Paris Riots. A police officer shoots a Algerian immigrant after he threatened the officer with a knife.
December 1st 2007: The main edition of "Tagesschau" is interrupted by angry protesters who claim that the "Tagesschau" is biased.Tagesschau is the most watched newscast in Germany.
December 4th 2007: Members of Generation Identitaire start to occupy several mosques in Paris and Lille. Causing an escalation of the Paris riots.
December 5th 2007: President Sarkozy bans Generation Identitaire. In Hamburg, Germany, are the buildings of "Der Spiegel" raided by the police. "Der Spiegel" reported that the dissolvement of the Bundestag was a distraction to ensure that her austerity measures could be passed.
December 6th: The general strike in France is prolonged untill December 31st, Generation Identitaire calls for the resignation of Nicholas Sarkozy. The French Newschannel BFM airs an interview of Bernard Thibault instead of an presidential speech of Sarkozy.
December 7th 2007: Mass demonstrations in Hamburg and in Berlin against Angela Merkel. The people demand of the lift of martial law, Bavaria calls the implentation of martial law without a war against the constitution.
December 8th 2007: The Soviet-Union and the USA demand an end of martial law in Germany and France.
December 10th 2007: A blizzard hits parts of the Netherlands and Germany. Many cities and villages are cut off from electricity.
December 13th 2007: Radical Muslims attack a meeting of Generation identitaire in Strasbourg. One attacker is killed. This incident causes riots in the Banlieus of Strasbourg, Paris, Lille, Bordeaux, Nice and Marseille. Leftist riots by communists break out in Toulouse and Nantes after it appears that the Prefect of these cities is supportive of Generation Identitaire.
Banlieu = suburban area where mostly poor immigrants live. IOTL there are lots of riots there too. Albeit not so extreme. Also on this day, Bart de Wever, leader of the Flemish Nationalist NVA, calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Verhofstad. He follows the example of Thibault and calls for an General Strike in Flanders.
December 14th 2007: 10:00 am: President Sarkozy threatens to use force against strikers who block the French transportsystem. As response Bernard Thibauld calls for a strike in the power plants and a shutdown of petrolstations. At 12:00 pm: The Socialist Party led by Segoléne Royal, announced they would openly support Bernard Thibauld. The Front National and the Greens follow suit. Only the small Parti Liberal supports Sarkozy. At 2:30 pm: The police raid the Flemish public broadcaster
VRT after their refusal to broadcast any newscast. The VRT did not want to break the strike. At the same time, a student demonstration in Louvain turns violent after frenchspeaking police officers (Sent from Liège) confiscated Flemish Flags....At 8:00pm: French protesters storm the buildings of France Télévisions and Radio France. All public broadcasting is suspended. At 11:45pm: The Flemish Parliament call for elections on the 15th of January 2008. The Belgian Federal Government calls this election illegal.
December 15th 2007: The Liberal Party of Guy Verhofstad forces him to step down as PM. New PM will be Elio di Rupo (PS)
December 16th, 2007: Soviet officials announce the creation of the "Crystal Island" self-sustaining domed arcology, designed by Norman Foster, in Moscow, sparking international attention...
December 17, 2007: The TOTAL headquaters in La Défense were nearly destroyed.
December 18, 2007: The IGA (International Green Army, but basically the same group) claimed responsibility
December 19, 2007: After demonstrations against the "Ökos" (Ecos) in major cities turned into riots, newly-elected Chancellor Claudia Roth lost a vote-of-no-confidence. New elections are to be held on February 3.
December 22nd, 2007: Connelly directed by Oliver Stone, starring Anthony Hopkins, makes its hit debut, fueling conspiracy theories about the assassinations of JFK and Jimmy Carter, amidst great controversy...
December 27th, 2007: The Amazing Spiderman (Marvel Comics) #545 by J. Michael Straczynski is released, causing the entire Marvel Universe to be "reimagined". Also on this day, At an election rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Bhutto experiences a third attempt on her life since her return to Pakistan.
December 31st, 2007: "Inay's" Filipino food restaurant announces that it has 15,756 restaurants worldwide, during a press conference in San Francisco, California....
February 3, 2008. The CDU/CSU wins the elections in a landslide. It even manages to clinch 50,3 percent of the vote and, thus, an absolute majority. The continued ecoterrorism discredited the Green Movement, the Green Party only gets 0,9 percent. The left also suffers heavily, getting 2,1 percent only. As a new force, the KAP (Konventionell-Atomare Partei), centered around exactly the opposite to what the Greens wanted, enter the Bundestag with 5,9 %. All parties vow to simultaneously fight the "brown and green threats".
February 12th-18th, 2008: United Nations General Assembly meets in New York City, New York regarding the work of the "Special Political Committee" and the issue of human-extraterrestrial contact....
March 7, 2008: The "Atomausstiegsgesetz", ratified in early 2007, gets fully repealed with the votes of CDU, FDP, CSU and KAP.
March 8th, 2008: Wan Azizah Wan Ismail becomes the first female Prime Minister for Malaysia, sparking international attention.....
March 11, 2008: The Calder Hal NPP in Great Britain is destroyed (and suffers a total meltdown) by a hijacked plane. The ANF (Anti-Nuclear Forces, but still the same group) claims responsibility the next day.
March 20th, 2008: World Trade Organization (WTO) rules that Soviet trade regulations regarding auto parts violate the provisions of the WTO obligations, sparking protests in Moscow....
April 1st, 2008: Financial crisis begins to spread to Asia, as the instability caused by European financial crisis triggers massive selloffs...
April 11th, 2008: Wall Street investors report the worst economic volatility in 112 years, sparking concerns of a worldwide economic meltdown.....
April 21, 2008: Benazir Bhutto becomes the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan.
May 15th, 2008: National Council of the Union of Burma launches an armed insurrection against the military regime in Napydiyaw, Mynanmar...
June 21st-25th, 2008: Moscow Lights; TASS reports 11 orange glowing lights, recorded by people on cellphones, cameras, et al. over Moscow, sparking concern across the globe...
July 9th, 2008: South African government announces that it will legalize same-sex marriages, sparking international attention and concern in Johannesburg, South Africa....
July 11th, 2008: Outlander starring Jim Caviezel, directed by Frederick Schoen, is a major hit, detailing a science fiction spin on the legend of Beowulf...
July 20th, 2008: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (UPN-TV) starring Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day, brings some of the highest ratings for the UPN-TV network....
July 29th, 2008: Rocket Racing League (RRL), in association with Monster Energy Drinks, launches the Monster AirVenture Race in Oshkosh, Washington...
August 9, 2008: The Japanese government removes Article 9 from its constitution.
September 3rd, 2008: Rap artist Engine Jammer launches a protest outside the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Saint Paul, Minnesota....
September 5th, 2008: Singer Miley Cyrus dies in a car accident in Santa Barbara, California, amidst rumors of drug and alcohol abuse, sparking national attention....
September 15th, 2008: Soviet officials demand an appeal of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, citing labor and environmental regulations in Moscow, sparking international attention....
November 4th, 2008: Mitt Romney wins the U.S. presidential elections, amidst concerns over the economy and foreign affairs.
Mitt Romney (Rep) 45%
Howard Dean (Dem) 40%
Sarah Palin (Tea) 12%
November 5th, 2008: Proposition 8 rejected; California approves same-sex marriage, sparking international attention and concern...
December 4th, 2008: "Masdar City" self-sustaining domed arcology is completed outside of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, sparking international attention and concern...
December 22, 2008: The ROKS Sejong the Great (DDG-991) is commissioned into the Republic of Korea Navy. It is the first of six ships of its class and the third stage of the RoK’s KDX program to build modern destroyers.
January 2nd, 2009: Justice League of America features the Justice League of America (JLA) clashing with the forces of "Earth-D"...
January 4, 2009: The Indian Ministry of Defense signs an agreement to purchase eight Lockheed Martin P-8I Neptune maritime patrol aircraft to replace their aging Tupolev Tu-142s.
January 10, 2009: The USS William F. Halsey (CVN-77) is commissioned into the United States Navy.
January 12th 2009: After 16 years Fox cancels Conan and Andy to replace it with local news and Fox NewsDay
January 31, 2009: The USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) is decommissioned after the commissioning of the USS William F. Halsey (CVN-77).
February 6th, 2009: Scientists led by Imre Friedmann uncover evidence of fossil remains of life on the Martian surface, based on meteorite fragments from the lunar surface at Mare Tranquilitas....
February 28, 2009: The INS Vikrant (R24) is laid down in Kochi, India. The Vikrant will be the first of a pair of indigenous aircraft carriers developed by India.
March 4th, 2009: "Do You Feel Loved?" album by Soviet band "My Vse Manekeny" (a.k.a. "We Are All Mannequins") makes its hit debut, with hit singles, "Wake Up Dead Man", "Do You Feel Loved" and "Mofo"....
March 12th, 2009: The Daily Show (ABC-TV) hosted by Jon Stewart sparks controversy, after Stewart launches an on-air criticism of the policies of the corporate sponsors of the ABC-TV network....
March 16th, 2009: "Zeitgeist" movement members with c. 75,000 people led by Peter Joseph hold a massive rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York...
April 2nd 2009: The Sukhoi SU-34 enters squadron wide service and begins to replace the SU-24 as the main Soviet ground attack and interdiction aircraft.
April 28th, 2009: Hezbollah guerillas led by Hassan Nasrallah kill the Egyptian Presidet and 5 members of the Cabinet, sparking martial law in Cairo, Egypt...
May 6th, 2009: Shah Reza Pahlavi meets with U.S. President Mitt Romney, caling for greater U.S./Iranian ties, sparking protests in Washington D.C.,....
May 16th, 2009: Actress Jodie Foster and Cydney Bernard are married in a marriage ceremony in Los Angeles, California, sparking international attention...
May 19th, 2009: Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus starring Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson, makes its hit film debut....
June 12th, 2009: Mir-Hossein Mousavi wins presidential elections, under tight internatonal inspection in Tehran, Iran....
July 7th, 2009: Pro-democracy leader Lech Walesa praises the music of Kathy Konners, during her European tour, meeting secretly with the leader in Berlin, Germany....
August 18th, 2009: Sex Pot starring Rollin Perry and Seth Cassell, makes its hit film debut....
August 25th, 2009: Actor Alec Baldwin (D-CT) announces his bid for the U.S. Senate in Bridgeport, Connecticut, sparking national attention....
September 18th, 2009: The Girl Who Played With Fire starring Dolph Lundgren, makes its hit debut, reviving the actor's career...
September 30th, 2009: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) under the leadership of Juan Goytisolo of Spain, announces the creation of "Heritage Sites" whereby international monuments and historical sites are to be preserved, in the face of a possible Ice Age....
October 2, 2009: Stargate Universe premieres on television. It will last five seasons and have 110 episodes.
October 24th, 2009: German political officials call for a ban on the activities , after members of the Church of the Greys protest before the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany..
November 13, 2009: The USS America (CVN-78) is laid down at Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia. The America will be 1100 feet long (335.28 meters in length), be powered by 3 PMBR 120 MW pebble bed nuclear reactors (license built by General Electric), four electromagnetic catapults, three elevators, and a total crew of 3,360. The planned air wing of the America-class will be 22 F-14E Super Tomcats, 24 F/A-18E/F Super Hornets, 24 F-35C Lightning IIs, 2 C-2B Greyhounds, 4 E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes, 4 S-3B Vikings, 4 MH-60R Seahawks, and 4 MH-60S Knighthawks. The USS America is expected to replace the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) after it is launched in late 2014-eary 2015.
November 17th, 2009: The Daily Show (ABC-TV) sparks national controversy after it interviews the Vice-President sparking national attention...
December 13th, 2009: Followers of Whiteley Streiber spark controversy, with their religious ministry and its UFO beliefs, during a visit to Jerusalem, sparking civil unrest and violence....
December 20th, 2009: Carter directed by Oliver Stone, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Connelly, popularizes the conspiracy theories surronding the 1981 death of President Jimmy Carter....
December 21st, 2009: Mexico's federal government legalizes marijuana, despite heavy pressure from American leaders, sparking international attention,...