Here is the fourth draft of the ATL:
January 28th, 1986: Christa McAuliffe becomes the first civilian in space, with the successful launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
Januay 31st, 1986: President Ronald Reagan calls the crew of the Space Shuttle from Washington D.C., praising their efforts , saying," you have 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'..."
Febuary 1, 1986: In the Soviet Union, Gorbachev begins to purge the CPSU of it's hard-line members.
Febuary 3: 1986: Inspired by the Challenger, the Soviets want to put a civilian in space as well.
February 12th, 1986: Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milka Planinc warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that economies of the Balkan region are unstable,...
February 22nd-25th, 1986: General Juan Ponce Enrile and Gregorio Honasan overthrow the government in a military coup in Manila, Philippines...
February 28th 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in Stockholm. A nationwide manhunt is started to apprehend the attacker.
March 6th, 1986: Space Shuttle Columbia under Commander Jon McBride is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with little incident...
April 5, 1986: At a speech to the Politburo, Gorbachev attacks Stalin's rule, telling them about what his family and his wife's family went through, and labels Stalin as a criminal.
April 10: 1986: Gorbachev begins to put younger men in the Politburo, and even taps Anatoly Dobrynin to become Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, and Pyotor Lushev as Defence Minister.
April 26th 1986: A reactor test in a Soviet nuclear power station in Chernobyl very nearly leads to a catastrophic accident. The narrowly averted disaster is covered up and the details only become known after several years.
May 3rd, 1986: Space Shuttle Challender launches the Ulysses solar polar orbiter under Commander Frederick H. Hauck from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
May 9th, 1986: Riots in Tallinn between Estonians and Russians.
May 12th, 1986: In Lithuania people demand indepent to country.
May 16th, 1986: Top Gun starring Scott Baio and Brooke Shields makes its hit debut,...
May 20th, 1986: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches the Galileo probe under Commander David M. Walker at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also on this day, after reviewing the German-Soviet pact of 1939, the Politburo declares it illegal, and excepts Lithuanian's demands.
May 22, 1986: In response to the recent demands for an independent country in Lithuania, and the riots in Estonia, a mass strike is held in Poland by the underground Solidarity trade union, calling for a non-communist Poland united with Lithuania.
June 3, 1986: Inspired by the Polish strike, several Czechoslovakian and Hungarian trade unions hold similiar actions in their respective nations, calling for non-communist government.
June 10th-17th, 1986: Inspired by the riots in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, riots erupt in Sofia, Bulgaria...
June 19, 1986: The strike in Poland finally ends, after the government finally accedes to negotiate with the government.
July 1st, 1986: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched carrying the first British astronaut, Lieutenant Nigel Wood (RAF), and first Indonesian astronaut, Taufik Akbar, under Commander Michael Coats (US) from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
July 23, 1986: The Czechoslovakian and Hungarian strikes end after their respective governments are forced to negotiate as well.
July 26, 1986: The recent strikes in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia have sent a wave of fear throughout the Communist bloc nations, and inspired anti-Communist activists to fight harder.
August 1st, 1986: Howard the Duck directed by George Lucas and starring Lea Thompson, makes its hit debut...
August 9, 1986: Afraid for his position as General Secretary, due to hardliners within the Party, Hu Yaobang manages to convince Deng Xiaoping to keep him as GS with his new, radical "Great Days" plan, a plan to open up the Chinese government and guarantee survival as the Communist Bloc in Europe seems to be beginning to collapse. Deng approves of the plan, and massive social reforms begin to be put into place.
August 29th, 1986: Amidst the threat of secessionist fervor in the Baltic States, Mikhail Gorbachev warns of a military crackdown on the region, during a televised speech in Moscow....
September 7th, 1986: General Augusto Pinochet is assassinated by Marcelo Barrios Andres, Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR), in Montevideo, Chile, causing massive civil unrest and violence...
September 13th, 1986: Young Astronauts (CBS-TV) animated series, makes its hit television debut...
September 14th, 1986: Communist guerillas bomb Seoul's Kimpo International Airport, killing 14 people, in opposition to the Chinese reform efforts...
September 19th, 1986: Blue Velvet directed by David Lynch, starring Rebecca De Mornay and Willem Dafoe makes its hit debut...
September 20th, 1986: 4 Iranian Shiite terrorists bomb Turk Air 415 in Ankara, Turkey en route to Cyprus, killing 315 people,...
September 26th, 1986: Reporter David Hirst, The Guardian, is kidnapped by AMAL guerillas in Beirut, Lebanon,...
September 27th 1986: Nothing much happens to Metallica bass player Cliff Burton. On October 4th, the band's Damage Inc. tour continues in Helsinki, Finland.
October 3rd, 1986: Soviet K-219, Yankee-I class submarine sinks 480 miles east of Bermuda, under Captain Igor Britanov, killing 120 people, after an explosion in one of its nuclear missile tubes...
October 16th 1986: The International Olympic Committee chooses Lillehammer, Norway to be the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics and Birmingham, UK to be the host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Also on this day, Alexander Barkashov forms the Russian National Unity (RNU) movement in Moscow in an effort to preserve "Russia for Russians"...
November 6th, 1986: President Ronald Reagan is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland; CBS Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports the story...
November 13th, 1986: President Ronald Reagan addresses the nation about his medical diagnosis in a televised address in Washington D.C.,...
November 19, 1986: President Ronald Reagan decides to resign in light of his condition, afraid of how it will effect his Presidency.
November 20, 1986: George Bush is sworn in as President.
November 21, 1986: Bush picks his choice for VP Robert "Bob" Dole (R-KS), who is confirmed by Congress a few hours later.
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January 7th, 1987: Mahmud al-Mustafa, a Libyan dissident, calls for a "government-in-exile" during a rally in Athens, Greece...
January 22nd, 1987: Soviet officials report a mutiny of cadets in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, as an attack by "Islamic fundamentalists"...
January 25, 1987: The Green Bay Packers beat the New York Giants 54-27 at Super Bowl XXI.
March 4, 1987: KGB agent Rudolf Abel defects to North Korea, intending to pass along several security secrets to the isolated Kim Il Sung regime.
March 23rd, 1987: Martial law is declared by the government in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia under Prime Minister Branko Mikulić,...
March 29th, 1987: Plitvice Lakes Incident; Serbian nationalists clash with Croatian separtists in Plitvice Lakes, Croatia, Yugoslavia...
April 11th, 1987: Al Gore announces he will run for president.
April 12, 1987: Massive riots erupt in East Germany after a man is shot and killed by Volkspolizei in East Berlin. The government begins to crack under the pressure from the people.
April 13th, 1987: Gary Hart, a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, officially announces he will run for president.
April 15th, 1987: Government of President Raúl Alfonsín is overthrown by military officers affiliated with the Carapintada movement under Aldo Rico in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
April 21st, 1987: Bill Clinton, after much pondering, announces he will run for president.
April 24th, 1987: Slobodan Milosevic calls for a "Greater Serbia" during a rally in Kosovo, Yugoslavia,...
May 6th, 1987: Poklonnaya Hill Riots; Communist Party Secretary Boris Yeltsin is beaten and hanged by Pamyat members for "Gorbachev's selling out the Russian people". Also on this day, Jesse Jackson declares his candidacy for the Democratic nomination.
May 15th, 1987: Ishtar starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, makes its hit film debut,...
May 21st, 1987: Feeling that President Bush is not conservative enough, televangelist Pat Robertson becomes the first candidate to challenge him in the Republican primaries.
June 2nd, 1987: Sofia Riots; Riots erupt in Sofia, Bulgaria during student demonstration in honor of national hero, Christo Botev (1876)...
June 8, 1987: North Korean reformers take over in a military coup, installing a combination military/civilian transitional government with help from South Korea. Kim Il Sung and many of his cabinet members are killed in a bombing outside of Pyongyang, North Korea.
June 26th, 1987: Bulgarian State Security (DS) fires on The Anarchist Youth Federation (F.A.M.) members in Sofia, Bulgaria, killing 8 people. Also on this day, Yussef Kherbigh, National Salvation Front of Libya (NSFL), calls for American recognition for a Libyan "government-in-exile" in Rome, Italy,..
July 2nd, 1987: Iranian ambassador Mohammed Razi is killed by a car bomb in Madrid, Spain,...
July 3, 1987: the new North Korean government wishes to start summits with the US as soon as possible.
July 6, 1989: The GDR is officially dissolved and merges with the FRG, whose capital is moved to a re united Berlin.
July 9, 1987: Riots begin in Czechoslovakia after the government refuses to meet workers' demands.
July 17th 1987 - Off the back of a successful re-election campaign, Margaret Thatcher announces she will seek a British shuttle in space by the year 2000. She names William Whitelaw as the first Minister for Space working out of the Ministry of Defence.
July 24th, 1987: Hezbollah takes credit for the bombing of Air Afrique over Geneva, Switzerland, killing 145 people,...
July 28th, 1987: Iranian exile Mansuri Mohammad Hasan announces hte formation of a "government-in-exile" in Istabul, Turkey,...
August 5th, 1987: Hollywood couple Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey are killed in a car accident while driving through Belfast, Northern Ireland...
August 17, 1987: The East German government, to the shock of the world, collapses after the Berlin politburo is destroyed in a multiple-fatality bombing in East Berlin.
August 18th, 1987: Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene and Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa are killed in a grenade attack in Jayawardenepura by PLF guerillas...
August 22,1987: The Czechoslovakian government is forced to hold elections to stop the riots in Prague. Also on this day, Cabbage Patch Kids: The Movie starring Mckenzie Astin, makes its hit debut,...
September 2nd-3rd, 1987: Aziz Kelmendi leads Albanian in an ethnic rebellion in Leskovac, Serbia, Yugoslavia,....
September 3, 1987: Demonstrations in Kiev are violently crushed by Soviet troops, in response to the destabilization of the Warsaw Pact.
September 7, 1987: Xinjiang province in China explodes into revolution after Uyghur politician Nur Bekri calls for a "global jihad against communism" in Urumqi.
September 10, 1987: Soviet troops crush an attempted Islamist rebellion in Tajikistan.
September 11th, 1987: Fatal Attraction directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kim Bassinger and Mel Gibson, makes its hit debut...
September 12th, 1987: The Pretenders (NBC-TV) starring Amada Pays, makes its television series debut,...
September 13, 1987: Through reformers in the KGB and military, Gorbachev finds out about his signiture being forged in order for the uprisings to be crushed, to make it appear that he gave the orders.
September 17th-22nd, 1987: Neo-Nazis spark race riots in Hoyerswerda, East Germany, ahead of Bundeswehr forces, sparking international tensions...
September 20, 1987: Gorbachev makes a televized speech in Moscow, outing the forgers in the KGB and military, and also apologizes for the deaths. Also on this day, Cabbage Patch Kids: The Animated Series (CBS-TV), makes its hit television debut,...
September 24th 1987 - In light of the space program announcement, the BBC commissions a biopic of the now Major Nigel Wood, the first Briton in space. John Nettles is chosen for the part of Wood
October 6th, 1987: The Spirit (NBC-TV) based on the comic by Will Eisner, starring Sam J. Jones and Nana Visitor, makes its hit television debut...
October 9th, 1987: The Princess Bride starring NFL player Bubba Smith and Carrie Fisher, makes its hit debut,...
October 13, 1987: As the Soviets appear to be unable to respond to the chaos in East Germany, the West German Bundeswehr moves into East Germany to stabilize.
October 17, 1987: Gorbachev harshly criticizes the West German move into East Germany, but makes no further response.
November 1, 1987: The first elections in 40 years are held in Czechoslovakia. The Charter 77 Group, led by Jiří Dienstbier, almost completely ousts the Communist Party. In response, the KPC refuses to relinquish power and declares the Charter 77 illegal.
November 3, 1987: The Czechoslovakian people rise up and fight the government, led by Dienstbier.
November 10, 1987: The Prague Politburo is captured by rioters and Jiří Dienstbier declares the Free Czechoslovak Republic in Prague.
November 29th, 1987: North Korean militants bomb a Korean Airlines flight out of Baghdad, killing 115 people...
December 1st, 1987: British ambassador John Gray is assassinated in Beirut, Lebanon, Hamas claims responsibility,...
December 12, 1987: After several production delays and a major re-write Superman IV: Peace In Our Time (formerly "The Quest For Peace") makes its debut. While not as successful as the first film, it is successful enough to convince Warner Bros. to buy back the rights from the Salkinds and contract Christopher Reeve to two more films.
December 18th, 1987: Leonard, Part 6 starring Bill Cosby makes its hit debut,...
December 20th, 1987: Iraqi ambassador Midhat al-Hiyali is assassinated in Athens, Greece by a group claiming to be part of the "Sons of Allah",...
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January 31, 1988: Super Bowl XXII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the reigning champions, the Green Bay Packers, 46-39.
March 7th, 1988: The Dictator (CBS-TV) starring Christopher Lloyd as a deposed dictator, makes its hit series debut,...
March 24th, 1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Uma Thurman and John Neville, makes its hit debut...
April 25th, 1988: Slovenian leaders Veljko Rus, France Bučar, Dimitrij Rupel, Veno Taufer, Milan Apih, Tine Hribar, Peter Jambrek, Janez Menart, and Tone Pavček announce plans for secession in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia,...
May 12, 1988: The Gennifer Flowers scandal is broken by Ted Koppel on Nightline (ABC-TV)
May 15th, 1988: Yugoslavian President Raif Dizdarević is assassinated in Belgrade, sparking nationalist sentiment...
May 16th, 1988: Yugoslavian Prime Minister Branko Mikulić is ousted in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in a "no-confidence" vote,...
May 18th, 1988: Former SS-officer Josef Schwammberger leads a rally in Stuttgart, West Germany, further heating tensions between the two Germanies....
June 2, 1988: President Bush gives a campaign speech regarding "America's Future in Space" and the creation of the SEI commission
June 7, 1988: Richard Donner publicly expresses interest in returning to direct both Superman V and VI.
June 11th, 1988: Where's Rodney (ABC-TV) starring Rodney Dangerfield and Soleil Moon Frye, makes its hit debut...
June 15, 1988: The DNC becomes one of the most bitterly divided in recent memory. Gore and Hart have a strong following. Clinton and Jackson are probably acceptable for VP positions. After a tough primary season, the democratic nomination is decided. Al Gore receives the nomination for President with Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton as his VP.
June 18th, 1988: Turkish President Halil Turgut Özal is assassinated by Kartal Demirağ in Ankara, Turkey; Prime Minister Yıldırım Akbulut is selected as successor...
June 20, 1988: Production on Superman V/VI begins with Richard Donner at the helm. Unlike with the Salkinds, Warner Bros. gives him greater creative control in hopes of emulating the success of the first film.
July 4th, 1988: WWF wrestler Keith “Adrian Adonis” Franke survives a car crash at Lewisporte, Newfoundland...
August 23rd-27th, 1988: Pro-Communist riots erupt in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, as East German residents clash with Bundswehr forces...
September 1, 1988: Gorbachev and Bush meet at Camp David, to discuss Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, and the cold war.
October 19th, 1988: Croatian nationalist Nikola Štedul is assassinated by Yugoslavian agents in Kirkcaldy, Scotland...
October 24th, 1988: Sergey Baburina and Nikolay Pavlo call for a "National Salvation Front" government during a rally in Moscow, in direct opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev, claiming "he has sold us to the Zionist pigs"...
October 30th, 1988: "Anarchist Interurban" network is established in Gdansk and Warsaw, trafficking pro-democracy leaders along an underground network...
November 5, 1988: Election Day, nearly 40% of the electorate turn out to vote between Al Gore / Bill Clinton (D) or incumbent President George Bush / Bob Dole (R)
November 23rd, 1988: Fighting erupts between Communist and nationalist militias in Mölln, East Germany...
December 16th, 1988: Rain Man directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, flops at the box office, amidst criticism that it is insulting to the mentally disabled...
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January 1, 1989: The SEI delivers three proposals to the President. The Mars option, created by Engineer Robert Zubrin. The Lunar option, which advocates a second Apollo Series, or three a Space Station option to compete with Russia's MIR. All three call for the Shuttle's decommissioning by 1995, with a replacement vehicle picking up the slack. Also on this day, West German Chancellor Kohl announces plans for a reunited Germany by Jan 1, 1991.
January 5th 1989- Miami Vice gets renewed by NBC for another 5 Years, ensuring that the Duo enjoys a new lease on life. Furthermore, NBC also produces a spinoff for Miami Vice titled, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. In the 1st of a successful series, we see the opposite side effect of the Crime Operation, starring Tommy Vercetti (Played by Ray Liotta) in the city of Miami as a drug leader working his way up. Running for 6 Seasons, GTA Vice City ends up a a sleeper hit, aided by the added musical section of the Miami Club Scene and its breathtaking intro of the city. From Season 1 onward, the ongoing arc of who stole his cocaine finally culminates in Season 3 with the death or Richard Diaz (Luis Guzman). Season 4-6 Deals with Vercetti's rise and the final season of 6 describes Vercetti holding against former friend Lance Vance (OOC: Not Thomas Obviously but instead a young Eddie Murphy). At the final episode, "Keep Your Friends Close". Everything falls for Vercetti.
January 22, 1989: The San Francisco 49ers wins Super Bowl XXIII 34-23 against the New England Patriots.
March 16th, 1989: Slobodan Milošević seizes control of the government in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia,...
April 8th, 1989: Libertarian Riots; Police launch a crackdown on "Libertarian Days" festivities at the University of Frankfurt, West Germany...
April 11, 1989: Gorbachev condemns the actions by Russian nationalist groups, as well as the neo-nazi groups in Germany, and asks West and East German leaders to show restraint in dealing with these groups. He orders the Red Army to move on the nationalists as a last resort.
April 18th, 1989: Wei Hsueh-kang, convicted drug lord, establishes himself as a political boss of the Kuomingtang in Yunnan, China...
May 1: 1989: May Day riots. Riots break out across the Communist world, when protesters demanding free elections turn to violence after harsh reactions from authorities. The most notable riots were in Moscow, Leningrad, Beijing, Shanghai, Havana,East Berlin, Pyongyang, Hanoi, Saigon, Warsaw,Budapest,Bucharest, Belgrade, and Sofia.
May 16th, 1989: Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam is overthrown in a military coup in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by senior members of the military...
May 29th, 1989: Neo-Nazis firebomb homes in Solingen, East Germany,...
June 9, 1989, Gorbachev advises Ceausescu of Romania and several other elderly and Stalinist Communists to step down.
June 12, 1989: Gorbachev appoints a new committee. East Germany is lost.
June 23rd, 1989: Batman directed by Joe Dante, starring Mel Gibson as "Bruce Wayne", Sean Young as "Vicki Vale", Ray Liotta as "Harvey Dent", and Robin Williams as "Joker"...
June 28th, 1989: Fighting erupts in Gazimestan, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, as Serbian militias launch attacks into Bosnia-Hercegovina,...
July 4, 1989: President Bush visits Moscow. At the summit the German compromise, which reunifies Germany. Soviet forces are freed up to contain Eastern Europe.
July 14, 1989: Iraqi strong man Saddam Hussein is assassinated by Iranian agents leading to resumption in hostilities in the Iran-Iraq war
August 1st, 1989: Ambassador Živorad Kovačević defects to the United States amidst civil war erupting in Yugoslavia,...
August 10, 1989: China belatedly condemns North Korea's response to May Day, bowing to international pressure
August 17, 1989: A mob of 1,500,000 angry demonstrators stormed the streets of Beijing demanding that the government step down and have free and fair elections. The politburo was shocked when over half of the PLA walked away and sided with the revolutionaries, bringing their weapons with them.
August 18, 1989: An armed mob of 50,000 stormed the Chinese Politburo and the People's Congress. The crowd roundesd up all the top 150 party officials, heald a show trial on charges of Crimes against the Chinese People, convicted, and summarily executed them all.
August 19, 1989: A group of 10 top PLA Officers who were part of the "18 August Revolution" took control of the fledgling nation and promised elections would be held in December of 1990 to give Parties time to form and a constitution to be written that would Satisfy the Chinese people.
September 4, 1989: The breakout success of Batman (and unexpected success of Superman IV) prompt WB executives to consider teaming up their two biggest heroes for a project called "World's Finest".
October 3rd, 1989: General Moises Giroldi overthrows the government of Manuel Noriega in Panama City Panama....
October 28th, 1989: San Francisco Giants led by Matt Williams beat the Oakland A's in Game 6 of the World Series at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California,...
November 24th, 1989: Due to the collapse of government safety measures and poor Soviet construction, the nuclear power plant at Greifswald, East Germany suffers a massive nuclear meltdown,...
December 13, 1989: During an interview promoting the anti-nuclear power movement in the wake of "Greifswald Disaster", Helen Slater reveals that she will reprise her role as Supergirl in Superman V. (Scheduled for release December 1990 with VI released Summer 1991) Ultimately culminating in dissension within the DC Comics fanbase because of the character's death during "Crisis on Infinite Earths" three years prior.
December 25th, 1989: Baseball manager Billy Martin narrowly survives a car accident outside of Johnson City, New York,...
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January 1, 1990: Rioters take to the streets of Havana and storm the presidential Palace and hang Castro and his brother, along with the top 10 party officials and generals.
January 13th, 1990: Tibetan nationalists led by Sengchen Lobsang Gyaltsen detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, in an effort to demand independence...
January 17, 1990: After growing unrest across The Soviet Union Gorbachev orders all Soviet troops back into the Soviet Union to Maintain Order.
January 18th, 1990: Members of the Tasilhunpo Monastery are held responsible for a bombing in Lhasa, Tibet,..
January 28, 1990: Super Bowl XXIV: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in an extremely close game, 44-42, after triple over time.
February 6th, 1990: On the 79th birthday of former President Ronald Reagan, conservative leaders led by Alexander M. Haig and Harold Stassen call upon hte Nobel Prize Committee to nominate Ronald Reagan for "bringing an end to world communism"....
March 15th, 1990: Premier Mikhail Gorbachev angrily denounces Western criticism of his handling of the crises in Eastern Europe by Western leaders stating, "What hypocrites you are!! You continue to support the apartheid regime in South Africa, you allowed Neo-Nazis to run rampant in East Germany, you've backed the military dictatorships in the Philippines, and you have backed the terrorist states of Iran and Iraq. Shame on you!!"
March 18th, 1990: Tibetan nationalists bomb the Communist Party headquarters in Lhasa, Tibet, demanding independence,...
May 1, 1990: on the 1st Anniversary of the May Day Riots Rioters accross the Eastern Bloc violently overthrow their Communist Governments after mass Army Desertions.
May 24th 1990 - In light of growing discontent, Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister and is succeeded on June 4th by Health Secretary Ken Clarke.
May 26th, 1990: Alija Izetbegović, leader of the Party of Democratic Action (PDA) seizes control of the government in Sarajevo, calling for independence for Bosnia-Hercegovina...
June 1, 1990: Taiwan announces that they will rejoin the re established Republic of China and vote in the upcoming elections. On the same day a new constitution is announced that creates a bicameral legislative branch, creates a presidency, and judiciary. Most Observers noted that the new Constitution is just the US Constitution written in Chinese. The Constitution also contains the right to free speech.
September 26th, 1990: Serbian forces launch attacks in Pakrac, Petrinja and Sisak, sparking national attention,...
December 18, 1990: China Votes. The KMT takes 1500 out of 2000 seats in the Chinese House of Representatives, and 300 of 500 in the Chinese House of Delegates.
December 25th, 1990: Tibetan nationalists brutally murder government officials in Lhasa, Tibet stating, "We will accept nothing less than complete independence..."
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January 24th, 1991: Democratic activist Wang Dan warns of corruption within the government, during a speech in Beijing, China,...
March 4th, 1991: Democratic leader Xu Jiatun warns of the corruption within the Kuomingtang, during a speech in Beijing, China...
March 23rd, 1991: Lee Siu-kei aided by Yip Kai-foon launches a series of riots in Hong Kong and Shanghai, in an effort to silence opponents of the Kuomingtang government,...
April 3rd, 1991: Triad boss Tung Kuei-sen establishes himself as a political boss in Taipei, Taiwan,...
April 6th 1991 - Governor Bill Clinton announces he will run for President, Tom Harkin suspends his own campaign to support Clinton
June 12th 1991 - Governor Mario Cuomo of New York announces he will run for President in 1992
June 14th-19th, 1991: Rebellious Red Army factions take hostage hospital in Budyonnovsk, Russia, threatening to execute patients unless political prisoners are released..
June 19th 1991- In the midst of the Uwe Boll Riots in LA based on the horrible mutilation of him, NBC releases a Pilot dubbed GTA San Andreas. Running for 5 Years, (Think San Andreas Expanded). GTA : SA later ends on a tragic note, as actor Tupac Shakur, playing as Carl Johnson was shot 6 times in the heart though later miraculously survived.
June 23rd, 1991: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis starring Harrison Ford and Julianne Moore, makes its hit debut, the fourth installment in the franchise,....
July 11th-22nd, 1991: Srebrenica Massacre; Serbian forces launch a brutal ethnic cleansing against Bosnians in Srebrenica, Yugoslavia...
August 19, 1991: several Soviet anti-communist groups and Red Army deserters storm a Politburo meeting, arresting Gorbachev and most of the others.
August 20, 1991: In the largest mass Execution in history Gorbachev and 499 other Party officials were publicly hanged at 12 noon Moscow time for crimes against Humanity.
August 21,1991: Top leaders in the "19 August Revolution" Declare the USSR dissolved. Also on this day, General Gennady Yanayev, Chairman of the Soviet Defense Council proclaims representation of the "true government of the Soviet peoples..."
August 22nd, 1991: President George H.W. Bush condemns the "19 August Revolution" as an "act of terrorism" during a televised speech in Washington D.C.,...
August 25th, 1991: CIA Director William Webster briefs President George H.W. Bush that the danger lies in a "nuclear civil war" within the Soviet Union, between those supporting the Communists and those supporting the "19 August Revolution"....
August 28th, 1991: Spetsnaz forces seize control of the Politburo, killing leaders of the "19 August Revolution" in Moscow, USSR...
September 3rd, 1991: General Gennady Yanayev, launches a televised vowing to "bring to justice the butchers of Moscow" during a televised speech from an undisclosed military base. U.N. officials estimate c. 3,126,424 people in Moscow (9/1) have been killed by the rebels in the worst act of international terrorism.
September 4th, 1991: President George H.W. Bush calls upon the international community to condemn the actions of the "19 August Revolution". The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes Resolution #1518 condemning the actions of the rebels.
September 9th, 1991: Jewish leaders celebrating Rosh Hashanah, condemn the "butchers of Moscow" as the perpetrators of a "New Holocaust" during a speech in Leningrad,...
September 13th 1991 - As George Bush is barred from running for President in the 1992 election due to the 22nd Amendment, Vice President Robert Dole announces his Presidential campaign.
September 18th, 1991: Triad boss Cheung Chi Keung establishes himself as a political boss in Guangzhou, China,...
October 21st, 1991: Baćin Massacre; Serbian troops massacre every villager in Baćin, Croatia ...
November 1st 1991- The Longest Running Romance Comedy Show Plumbers Don't Wear Ties" is given its First Movie. The show, orginating in the 1989 Pilot on NBC staring Jeanne Basone as Jane is showing her exploits, such as her and John (Edward J. Foster) and the Narrator Harry Armis and the dreaded boss Thresher (Paul Bokor). At first, the show is considered to be a horrible idea, but amazingly, nearly 72 Million Viewers watch the Premiere Episode (In no short part due to a movement in the Grunge and Neo Miami Vice Movement), which famously had Jane and John nearly being involved in a Job Interview/Rape/Killing/Chase/Price Is Right Bidding for Jane against Thresher. The Uncensored Version of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties can be found in a select infamous moment here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtDGJxMKm64). After the 1st episode, the Show was given a 3 Year Contract extension, which included many famous episodes in the first 13 Episodes such As the Following:
-Harry Armis vs. Chicago Senator and host of Oprah: Oprah Winfrey for the control of the story
-Harry Armis bickering at you while Tom Brokaw announces that "The Claw" has died
-Thresher trying to have his way with Jane
- John trying to have his way with Jane
-Pop Music Sensation Michael Jackson famously appearing when to his tune "Billie Jean" bids on Jane for $5 Billion.
This show has even spawned the highest grossing Video Game of All Time on the SNES with 117 Million Buys.
November 1st, 1991: Kuomingtang boss Yip Kai-foon is ruled innocent of charges of extortion and racketeering in Shanghai, despite video evidence...
November 4, 1991: 9 nuclear warheads go missing. Soviet General Gennady Yanayev calls President George H.W. Bush about the missing nukes.
November 5, 1991: the nuclear terror strikein Moscow in fact does the opposite of the revolutionaries intention. It galvanizes communists across asia, leading to a severe backlash against the revolutionaries. In Pravda in an anonymous interview on revolutionary, "I was for revolution and the end of the Ussr until my supposed comrades used a nuke in Moscow to destroy the kremlin and thousands of civilians. I re-enlisted, I will serve in the Soviet army with honor, even if I wind up going to Afghanistan"
November 6th 1991 - Senator Arlen Specter announces he will challenge the Vice President for the Republican nomination
November 10, 1991: "19 August" reveals anarchist connections and says it will strike all over the world with the Nukes they stole.
November 18,1991: Nuclear explosions rock New York, Tokyo, London, Los Angles, Washington, Berlin, Paris, Toronto, and Mecca.
November 20th, 1991: Vukovar Massacre; Croatian and Serbian guerillas launch a brutal ethnic campaign against each other in the confusion caused the nuclear incidents...
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January 1, 1992: General Gennady Yanaydev Requests help from President Bush and NATO to secure the Soviet nuclear arsenal. Both Agree to put aside their differences in order to combat the threat of Global terror posed by 19 August and other groups.
January 6th 1992- GTA Vice City Stories, a movie ends up released in theaters. Noted as a prequel from 1984, the movie stars healthy Left Fielder for the Yankees Bo Jackson as Victor Vance. (Same Story as OTL)
January 9th-18th, 1992: Soviet military forces launch raids against rebels in Kizlyar, Pervomayskoye and Sovetskoye, Dagestan...
February 5th, 1992: Muslim guerillas bomb a bus carrying government workers in Urumqi, Xinjiang, demanding independence for the region...
February 9th 1992 - Clinton and Dole win the Iowa caucuses
March 1st 1992 - After successive defeats, both Bob Kerrey and Arlen Specter withdraw from the race. Dole becomes the presumptive GOP nominee
April 14th 1992 - After a bitter primary campaign, Governor Bill Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee
May 13th, 1992: Li Hongzhi leads rally in Changchun, calling for an end to the monopoly of power held by the Kuomingtang,...
November 3, 1992: Bob Dole Defeats Bill Clinton 300-238.
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July 29th, 1993: Soviet troops capture "19 August" forces, after detecting a nuclear radiation signal in Andreevan Guba naval base, Russia, USSR,...
October 9th, 1993: Soviet troops capture "19 August" forces led by Ivan Smirnov as they attempt to detonate a nuclear weapon in Podolsk, Russia, USSR
November 27th, 1993: "19 August" guerillas led by Aleksei Tikhomirov and Oleg Baranov are captured at Sevmorput naval base, Russia, USSR....
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February 13th, 1994: Christina Klein is arrested in Berlin, Germany after attempting to detonate a nuclear weapon...
May 6th, 1994: Adolf Jaekle is arrested in Frankfurt, Germany on charges of arms sales to Neo-Nazi militias, he is released after reporting the transport of a "19 August" weapon into Germany....
September 6th-14th, 1994: "19 August" rebels launch a series bombings against civilians in Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, USSR, killing 38 people...
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July 4, 1996: The US and USSR agree to a treaty to eliminate all ICBM missiles by January 1, 2006 and reduce stockpiles to 500 bombs each not to exceed 5 MT. The treaty is ratified by the Senate 89-10. General yanaydev and President Dole both receive The 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
January 28th, 1986: Christa McAuliffe becomes the first civilian in space, with the successful launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
Januay 31st, 1986: President Ronald Reagan calls the crew of the Space Shuttle from Washington D.C., praising their efforts , saying," you have 'slipped the surly bonds of Earth' to 'touch the face of God.'..."
Febuary 1, 1986: In the Soviet Union, Gorbachev begins to purge the CPSU of it's hard-line members.
Febuary 3: 1986: Inspired by the Challenger, the Soviets want to put a civilian in space as well.
February 12th, 1986: Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milka Planinc warns the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that economies of the Balkan region are unstable,...
February 22nd-25th, 1986: General Juan Ponce Enrile and Gregorio Honasan overthrow the government in a military coup in Manila, Philippines...
February 28th 1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in Stockholm. A nationwide manhunt is started to apprehend the attacker.
March 6th, 1986: Space Shuttle Columbia under Commander Jon McBride is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with little incident...
April 5, 1986: At a speech to the Politburo, Gorbachev attacks Stalin's rule, telling them about what his family and his wife's family went through, and labels Stalin as a criminal.
April 10: 1986: Gorbachev begins to put younger men in the Politburo, and even taps Anatoly Dobrynin to become Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, and Pyotor Lushev as Defence Minister.
April 26th 1986: A reactor test in a Soviet nuclear power station in Chernobyl very nearly leads to a catastrophic accident. The narrowly averted disaster is covered up and the details only become known after several years.
May 3rd, 1986: Space Shuttle Challender launches the Ulysses solar polar orbiter under Commander Frederick H. Hauck from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
May 9th, 1986: Riots in Tallinn between Estonians and Russians.
May 12th, 1986: In Lithuania people demand indepent to country.
May 16th, 1986: Top Gun starring Scott Baio and Brooke Shields makes its hit debut,...
May 20th, 1986: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches the Galileo probe under Commander David M. Walker at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also on this day, after reviewing the German-Soviet pact of 1939, the Politburo declares it illegal, and excepts Lithuanian's demands.
May 22, 1986: In response to the recent demands for an independent country in Lithuania, and the riots in Estonia, a mass strike is held in Poland by the underground Solidarity trade union, calling for a non-communist Poland united with Lithuania.
June 3, 1986: Inspired by the Polish strike, several Czechoslovakian and Hungarian trade unions hold similiar actions in their respective nations, calling for non-communist government.
June 10th-17th, 1986: Inspired by the riots in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, riots erupt in Sofia, Bulgaria...
June 19, 1986: The strike in Poland finally ends, after the government finally accedes to negotiate with the government.
July 1st, 1986: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched carrying the first British astronaut, Lieutenant Nigel Wood (RAF), and first Indonesian astronaut, Taufik Akbar, under Commander Michael Coats (US) from Cape Canaveral, Florida...
July 23, 1986: The Czechoslovakian and Hungarian strikes end after their respective governments are forced to negotiate as well.
July 26, 1986: The recent strikes in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia have sent a wave of fear throughout the Communist bloc nations, and inspired anti-Communist activists to fight harder.
August 1st, 1986: Howard the Duck directed by George Lucas and starring Lea Thompson, makes its hit debut...
August 9, 1986: Afraid for his position as General Secretary, due to hardliners within the Party, Hu Yaobang manages to convince Deng Xiaoping to keep him as GS with his new, radical "Great Days" plan, a plan to open up the Chinese government and guarantee survival as the Communist Bloc in Europe seems to be beginning to collapse. Deng approves of the plan, and massive social reforms begin to be put into place.
August 29th, 1986: Amidst the threat of secessionist fervor in the Baltic States, Mikhail Gorbachev warns of a military crackdown on the region, during a televised speech in Moscow....
September 7th, 1986: General Augusto Pinochet is assassinated by Marcelo Barrios Andres, Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez (FPMR), in Montevideo, Chile, causing massive civil unrest and violence...
September 13th, 1986: Young Astronauts (CBS-TV) animated series, makes its hit television debut...
September 14th, 1986: Communist guerillas bomb Seoul's Kimpo International Airport, killing 14 people, in opposition to the Chinese reform efforts...
September 19th, 1986: Blue Velvet directed by David Lynch, starring Rebecca De Mornay and Willem Dafoe makes its hit debut...
September 20th, 1986: 4 Iranian Shiite terrorists bomb Turk Air 415 in Ankara, Turkey en route to Cyprus, killing 315 people,...
September 26th, 1986: Reporter David Hirst, The Guardian, is kidnapped by AMAL guerillas in Beirut, Lebanon,...
September 27th 1986: Nothing much happens to Metallica bass player Cliff Burton. On October 4th, the band's Damage Inc. tour continues in Helsinki, Finland.
October 3rd, 1986: Soviet K-219, Yankee-I class submarine sinks 480 miles east of Bermuda, under Captain Igor Britanov, killing 120 people, after an explosion in one of its nuclear missile tubes...
October 16th 1986: The International Olympic Committee chooses Lillehammer, Norway to be the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics and Birmingham, UK to be the host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Also on this day, Alexander Barkashov forms the Russian National Unity (RNU) movement in Moscow in an effort to preserve "Russia for Russians"...
November 6th, 1986: President Ronald Reagan is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland; CBS Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports the story...
November 13th, 1986: President Ronald Reagan addresses the nation about his medical diagnosis in a televised address in Washington D.C.,...
November 19, 1986: President Ronald Reagan decides to resign in light of his condition, afraid of how it will effect his Presidency.
November 20, 1986: George Bush is sworn in as President.
November 21, 1986: Bush picks his choice for VP Robert "Bob" Dole (R-KS), who is confirmed by Congress a few hours later.
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January 7th, 1987: Mahmud al-Mustafa, a Libyan dissident, calls for a "government-in-exile" during a rally in Athens, Greece...
January 22nd, 1987: Soviet officials report a mutiny of cadets in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, as an attack by "Islamic fundamentalists"...
January 25, 1987: The Green Bay Packers beat the New York Giants 54-27 at Super Bowl XXI.
March 4, 1987: KGB agent Rudolf Abel defects to North Korea, intending to pass along several security secrets to the isolated Kim Il Sung regime.
March 23rd, 1987: Martial law is declared by the government in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia under Prime Minister Branko Mikulić,...
March 29th, 1987: Plitvice Lakes Incident; Serbian nationalists clash with Croatian separtists in Plitvice Lakes, Croatia, Yugoslavia...
April 11th, 1987: Al Gore announces he will run for president.
April 12, 1987: Massive riots erupt in East Germany after a man is shot and killed by Volkspolizei in East Berlin. The government begins to crack under the pressure from the people.
April 13th, 1987: Gary Hart, a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, officially announces he will run for president.
April 15th, 1987: Government of President Raúl Alfonsín is overthrown by military officers affiliated with the Carapintada movement under Aldo Rico in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
April 21st, 1987: Bill Clinton, after much pondering, announces he will run for president.
April 24th, 1987: Slobodan Milosevic calls for a "Greater Serbia" during a rally in Kosovo, Yugoslavia,...
May 6th, 1987: Poklonnaya Hill Riots; Communist Party Secretary Boris Yeltsin is beaten and hanged by Pamyat members for "Gorbachev's selling out the Russian people". Also on this day, Jesse Jackson declares his candidacy for the Democratic nomination.
May 15th, 1987: Ishtar starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, makes its hit film debut,...
May 21st, 1987: Feeling that President Bush is not conservative enough, televangelist Pat Robertson becomes the first candidate to challenge him in the Republican primaries.
June 2nd, 1987: Sofia Riots; Riots erupt in Sofia, Bulgaria during student demonstration in honor of national hero, Christo Botev (1876)...
June 8, 1987: North Korean reformers take over in a military coup, installing a combination military/civilian transitional government with help from South Korea. Kim Il Sung and many of his cabinet members are killed in a bombing outside of Pyongyang, North Korea.
June 26th, 1987: Bulgarian State Security (DS) fires on The Anarchist Youth Federation (F.A.M.) members in Sofia, Bulgaria, killing 8 people. Also on this day, Yussef Kherbigh, National Salvation Front of Libya (NSFL), calls for American recognition for a Libyan "government-in-exile" in Rome, Italy,..
July 2nd, 1987: Iranian ambassador Mohammed Razi is killed by a car bomb in Madrid, Spain,...
July 3, 1987: the new North Korean government wishes to start summits with the US as soon as possible.
July 6, 1989: The GDR is officially dissolved and merges with the FRG, whose capital is moved to a re united Berlin.
July 9, 1987: Riots begin in Czechoslovakia after the government refuses to meet workers' demands.
July 17th 1987 - Off the back of a successful re-election campaign, Margaret Thatcher announces she will seek a British shuttle in space by the year 2000. She names William Whitelaw as the first Minister for Space working out of the Ministry of Defence.
July 24th, 1987: Hezbollah takes credit for the bombing of Air Afrique over Geneva, Switzerland, killing 145 people,...
July 28th, 1987: Iranian exile Mansuri Mohammad Hasan announces hte formation of a "government-in-exile" in Istabul, Turkey,...
August 5th, 1987: Hollywood couple Matthew Broderick and Jennifer Grey are killed in a car accident while driving through Belfast, Northern Ireland...
August 17, 1987: The East German government, to the shock of the world, collapses after the Berlin politburo is destroyed in a multiple-fatality bombing in East Berlin.
August 18th, 1987: Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene and Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa are killed in a grenade attack in Jayawardenepura by PLF guerillas...
August 22,1987: The Czechoslovakian government is forced to hold elections to stop the riots in Prague. Also on this day, Cabbage Patch Kids: The Movie starring Mckenzie Astin, makes its hit debut,...
September 2nd-3rd, 1987: Aziz Kelmendi leads Albanian in an ethnic rebellion in Leskovac, Serbia, Yugoslavia,....
September 3, 1987: Demonstrations in Kiev are violently crushed by Soviet troops, in response to the destabilization of the Warsaw Pact.
September 7, 1987: Xinjiang province in China explodes into revolution after Uyghur politician Nur Bekri calls for a "global jihad against communism" in Urumqi.
September 10, 1987: Soviet troops crush an attempted Islamist rebellion in Tajikistan.
September 11th, 1987: Fatal Attraction directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kim Bassinger and Mel Gibson, makes its hit debut...
September 12th, 1987: The Pretenders (NBC-TV) starring Amada Pays, makes its television series debut,...
September 13, 1987: Through reformers in the KGB and military, Gorbachev finds out about his signiture being forged in order for the uprisings to be crushed, to make it appear that he gave the orders.
September 17th-22nd, 1987: Neo-Nazis spark race riots in Hoyerswerda, East Germany, ahead of Bundeswehr forces, sparking international tensions...
September 20, 1987: Gorbachev makes a televized speech in Moscow, outing the forgers in the KGB and military, and also apologizes for the deaths. Also on this day, Cabbage Patch Kids: The Animated Series (CBS-TV), makes its hit television debut,...
September 24th 1987 - In light of the space program announcement, the BBC commissions a biopic of the now Major Nigel Wood, the first Briton in space. John Nettles is chosen for the part of Wood
October 6th, 1987: The Spirit (NBC-TV) based on the comic by Will Eisner, starring Sam J. Jones and Nana Visitor, makes its hit television debut...
October 9th, 1987: The Princess Bride starring NFL player Bubba Smith and Carrie Fisher, makes its hit debut,...
October 13, 1987: As the Soviets appear to be unable to respond to the chaos in East Germany, the West German Bundeswehr moves into East Germany to stabilize.
October 17, 1987: Gorbachev harshly criticizes the West German move into East Germany, but makes no further response.
November 1, 1987: The first elections in 40 years are held in Czechoslovakia. The Charter 77 Group, led by Jiří Dienstbier, almost completely ousts the Communist Party. In response, the KPC refuses to relinquish power and declares the Charter 77 illegal.
November 3, 1987: The Czechoslovakian people rise up and fight the government, led by Dienstbier.
November 10, 1987: The Prague Politburo is captured by rioters and Jiří Dienstbier declares the Free Czechoslovak Republic in Prague.
November 29th, 1987: North Korean militants bomb a Korean Airlines flight out of Baghdad, killing 115 people...
December 1st, 1987: British ambassador John Gray is assassinated in Beirut, Lebanon, Hamas claims responsibility,...
December 12, 1987: After several production delays and a major re-write Superman IV: Peace In Our Time (formerly "The Quest For Peace") makes its debut. While not as successful as the first film, it is successful enough to convince Warner Bros. to buy back the rights from the Salkinds and contract Christopher Reeve to two more films.
December 18th, 1987: Leonard, Part 6 starring Bill Cosby makes its hit debut,...
December 20th, 1987: Iraqi ambassador Midhat al-Hiyali is assassinated in Athens, Greece by a group claiming to be part of the "Sons of Allah",...
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January 31, 1988: Super Bowl XXII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the reigning champions, the Green Bay Packers, 46-39.
March 7th, 1988: The Dictator (CBS-TV) starring Christopher Lloyd as a deposed dictator, makes its hit series debut,...
March 24th, 1988: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Uma Thurman and John Neville, makes its hit debut...
April 25th, 1988: Slovenian leaders Veljko Rus, France Bučar, Dimitrij Rupel, Veno Taufer, Milan Apih, Tine Hribar, Peter Jambrek, Janez Menart, and Tone Pavček announce plans for secession in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia,...
May 12, 1988: The Gennifer Flowers scandal is broken by Ted Koppel on Nightline (ABC-TV)
May 15th, 1988: Yugoslavian President Raif Dizdarević is assassinated in Belgrade, sparking nationalist sentiment...
May 16th, 1988: Yugoslavian Prime Minister Branko Mikulić is ousted in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in a "no-confidence" vote,...
May 18th, 1988: Former SS-officer Josef Schwammberger leads a rally in Stuttgart, West Germany, further heating tensions between the two Germanies....
June 2, 1988: President Bush gives a campaign speech regarding "America's Future in Space" and the creation of the SEI commission
June 7, 1988: Richard Donner publicly expresses interest in returning to direct both Superman V and VI.
June 11th, 1988: Where's Rodney (ABC-TV) starring Rodney Dangerfield and Soleil Moon Frye, makes its hit debut...
June 15, 1988: The DNC becomes one of the most bitterly divided in recent memory. Gore and Hart have a strong following. Clinton and Jackson are probably acceptable for VP positions. After a tough primary season, the democratic nomination is decided. Al Gore receives the nomination for President with Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton as his VP.
June 18th, 1988: Turkish President Halil Turgut Özal is assassinated by Kartal Demirağ in Ankara, Turkey; Prime Minister Yıldırım Akbulut is selected as successor...
June 20, 1988: Production on Superman V/VI begins with Richard Donner at the helm. Unlike with the Salkinds, Warner Bros. gives him greater creative control in hopes of emulating the success of the first film.
July 4th, 1988: WWF wrestler Keith “Adrian Adonis” Franke survives a car crash at Lewisporte, Newfoundland...
August 23rd-27th, 1988: Pro-Communist riots erupt in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, as East German residents clash with Bundswehr forces...
September 1, 1988: Gorbachev and Bush meet at Camp David, to discuss Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, and the cold war.
October 19th, 1988: Croatian nationalist Nikola Štedul is assassinated by Yugoslavian agents in Kirkcaldy, Scotland...
October 24th, 1988: Sergey Baburina and Nikolay Pavlo call for a "National Salvation Front" government during a rally in Moscow, in direct opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev, claiming "he has sold us to the Zionist pigs"...
October 30th, 1988: "Anarchist Interurban" network is established in Gdansk and Warsaw, trafficking pro-democracy leaders along an underground network...
November 5, 1988: Election Day, nearly 40% of the electorate turn out to vote between Al Gore / Bill Clinton (D) or incumbent President George Bush / Bob Dole (R)
November 23rd, 1988: Fighting erupts between Communist and nationalist militias in Mölln, East Germany...
December 16th, 1988: Rain Man directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, flops at the box office, amidst criticism that it is insulting to the mentally disabled...
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January 1, 1989: The SEI delivers three proposals to the President. The Mars option, created by Engineer Robert Zubrin. The Lunar option, which advocates a second Apollo Series, or three a Space Station option to compete with Russia's MIR. All three call for the Shuttle's decommissioning by 1995, with a replacement vehicle picking up the slack. Also on this day, West German Chancellor Kohl announces plans for a reunited Germany by Jan 1, 1991.
January 5th 1989- Miami Vice gets renewed by NBC for another 5 Years, ensuring that the Duo enjoys a new lease on life. Furthermore, NBC also produces a spinoff for Miami Vice titled, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. In the 1st of a successful series, we see the opposite side effect of the Crime Operation, starring Tommy Vercetti (Played by Ray Liotta) in the city of Miami as a drug leader working his way up. Running for 6 Seasons, GTA Vice City ends up a a sleeper hit, aided by the added musical section of the Miami Club Scene and its breathtaking intro of the city. From Season 1 onward, the ongoing arc of who stole his cocaine finally culminates in Season 3 with the death or Richard Diaz (Luis Guzman). Season 4-6 Deals with Vercetti's rise and the final season of 6 describes Vercetti holding against former friend Lance Vance (OOC: Not Thomas Obviously but instead a young Eddie Murphy). At the final episode, "Keep Your Friends Close". Everything falls for Vercetti.
January 22, 1989: The San Francisco 49ers wins Super Bowl XXIII 34-23 against the New England Patriots.
March 16th, 1989: Slobodan Milošević seizes control of the government in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia,...
April 8th, 1989: Libertarian Riots; Police launch a crackdown on "Libertarian Days" festivities at the University of Frankfurt, West Germany...
April 11, 1989: Gorbachev condemns the actions by Russian nationalist groups, as well as the neo-nazi groups in Germany, and asks West and East German leaders to show restraint in dealing with these groups. He orders the Red Army to move on the nationalists as a last resort.
April 18th, 1989: Wei Hsueh-kang, convicted drug lord, establishes himself as a political boss of the Kuomingtang in Yunnan, China...
May 1: 1989: May Day riots. Riots break out across the Communist world, when protesters demanding free elections turn to violence after harsh reactions from authorities. The most notable riots were in Moscow, Leningrad, Beijing, Shanghai, Havana,East Berlin, Pyongyang, Hanoi, Saigon, Warsaw,Budapest,Bucharest, Belgrade, and Sofia.
May 16th, 1989: Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam is overthrown in a military coup in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by senior members of the military...
May 29th, 1989: Neo-Nazis firebomb homes in Solingen, East Germany,...
June 9, 1989, Gorbachev advises Ceausescu of Romania and several other elderly and Stalinist Communists to step down.
June 12, 1989: Gorbachev appoints a new committee. East Germany is lost.
June 23rd, 1989: Batman directed by Joe Dante, starring Mel Gibson as "Bruce Wayne", Sean Young as "Vicki Vale", Ray Liotta as "Harvey Dent", and Robin Williams as "Joker"...
June 28th, 1989: Fighting erupts in Gazimestan, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, as Serbian militias launch attacks into Bosnia-Hercegovina,...
July 4, 1989: President Bush visits Moscow. At the summit the German compromise, which reunifies Germany. Soviet forces are freed up to contain Eastern Europe.
July 14, 1989: Iraqi strong man Saddam Hussein is assassinated by Iranian agents leading to resumption in hostilities in the Iran-Iraq war
August 1st, 1989: Ambassador Živorad Kovačević defects to the United States amidst civil war erupting in Yugoslavia,...
August 10, 1989: China belatedly condemns North Korea's response to May Day, bowing to international pressure
August 17, 1989: A mob of 1,500,000 angry demonstrators stormed the streets of Beijing demanding that the government step down and have free and fair elections. The politburo was shocked when over half of the PLA walked away and sided with the revolutionaries, bringing their weapons with them.
August 18, 1989: An armed mob of 50,000 stormed the Chinese Politburo and the People's Congress. The crowd roundesd up all the top 150 party officials, heald a show trial on charges of Crimes against the Chinese People, convicted, and summarily executed them all.
August 19, 1989: A group of 10 top PLA Officers who were part of the "18 August Revolution" took control of the fledgling nation and promised elections would be held in December of 1990 to give Parties time to form and a constitution to be written that would Satisfy the Chinese people.
September 4, 1989: The breakout success of Batman (and unexpected success of Superman IV) prompt WB executives to consider teaming up their two biggest heroes for a project called "World's Finest".
October 3rd, 1989: General Moises Giroldi overthrows the government of Manuel Noriega in Panama City Panama....
October 28th, 1989: San Francisco Giants led by Matt Williams beat the Oakland A's in Game 6 of the World Series at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California,...
November 24th, 1989: Due to the collapse of government safety measures and poor Soviet construction, the nuclear power plant at Greifswald, East Germany suffers a massive nuclear meltdown,...
December 13, 1989: During an interview promoting the anti-nuclear power movement in the wake of "Greifswald Disaster", Helen Slater reveals that she will reprise her role as Supergirl in Superman V. (Scheduled for release December 1990 with VI released Summer 1991) Ultimately culminating in dissension within the DC Comics fanbase because of the character's death during "Crisis on Infinite Earths" three years prior.
December 25th, 1989: Baseball manager Billy Martin narrowly survives a car accident outside of Johnson City, New York,...
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January 1, 1990: Rioters take to the streets of Havana and storm the presidential Palace and hang Castro and his brother, along with the top 10 party officials and generals.
January 13th, 1990: Tibetan nationalists led by Sengchen Lobsang Gyaltsen detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, in an effort to demand independence...
January 17, 1990: After growing unrest across The Soviet Union Gorbachev orders all Soviet troops back into the Soviet Union to Maintain Order.
January 18th, 1990: Members of the Tasilhunpo Monastery are held responsible for a bombing in Lhasa, Tibet,..
January 28, 1990: Super Bowl XXIV: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Philadelphia Eagles in an extremely close game, 44-42, after triple over time.
February 6th, 1990: On the 79th birthday of former President Ronald Reagan, conservative leaders led by Alexander M. Haig and Harold Stassen call upon hte Nobel Prize Committee to nominate Ronald Reagan for "bringing an end to world communism"....
March 15th, 1990: Premier Mikhail Gorbachev angrily denounces Western criticism of his handling of the crises in Eastern Europe by Western leaders stating, "What hypocrites you are!! You continue to support the apartheid regime in South Africa, you allowed Neo-Nazis to run rampant in East Germany, you've backed the military dictatorships in the Philippines, and you have backed the terrorist states of Iran and Iraq. Shame on you!!"
March 18th, 1990: Tibetan nationalists bomb the Communist Party headquarters in Lhasa, Tibet, demanding independence,...
May 1, 1990: on the 1st Anniversary of the May Day Riots Rioters accross the Eastern Bloc violently overthrow their Communist Governments after mass Army Desertions.
May 24th 1990 - In light of growing discontent, Margaret Thatcher resigns as British Prime Minister and is succeeded on June 4th by Health Secretary Ken Clarke.
May 26th, 1990: Alija Izetbegović, leader of the Party of Democratic Action (PDA) seizes control of the government in Sarajevo, calling for independence for Bosnia-Hercegovina...
June 1, 1990: Taiwan announces that they will rejoin the re established Republic of China and vote in the upcoming elections. On the same day a new constitution is announced that creates a bicameral legislative branch, creates a presidency, and judiciary. Most Observers noted that the new Constitution is just the US Constitution written in Chinese. The Constitution also contains the right to free speech.
September 26th, 1990: Serbian forces launch attacks in Pakrac, Petrinja and Sisak, sparking national attention,...
December 18, 1990: China Votes. The KMT takes 1500 out of 2000 seats in the Chinese House of Representatives, and 300 of 500 in the Chinese House of Delegates.
December 25th, 1990: Tibetan nationalists brutally murder government officials in Lhasa, Tibet stating, "We will accept nothing less than complete independence..."
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January 24th, 1991: Democratic activist Wang Dan warns of corruption within the government, during a speech in Beijing, China,...
March 4th, 1991: Democratic leader Xu Jiatun warns of the corruption within the Kuomingtang, during a speech in Beijing, China...
March 23rd, 1991: Lee Siu-kei aided by Yip Kai-foon launches a series of riots in Hong Kong and Shanghai, in an effort to silence opponents of the Kuomingtang government,...
April 3rd, 1991: Triad boss Tung Kuei-sen establishes himself as a political boss in Taipei, Taiwan,...
April 6th 1991 - Governor Bill Clinton announces he will run for President, Tom Harkin suspends his own campaign to support Clinton
June 12th 1991 - Governor Mario Cuomo of New York announces he will run for President in 1992
June 14th-19th, 1991: Rebellious Red Army factions take hostage hospital in Budyonnovsk, Russia, threatening to execute patients unless political prisoners are released..
June 19th 1991- In the midst of the Uwe Boll Riots in LA based on the horrible mutilation of him, NBC releases a Pilot dubbed GTA San Andreas. Running for 5 Years, (Think San Andreas Expanded). GTA : SA later ends on a tragic note, as actor Tupac Shakur, playing as Carl Johnson was shot 6 times in the heart though later miraculously survived.
June 23rd, 1991: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis starring Harrison Ford and Julianne Moore, makes its hit debut, the fourth installment in the franchise,....
July 11th-22nd, 1991: Srebrenica Massacre; Serbian forces launch a brutal ethnic cleansing against Bosnians in Srebrenica, Yugoslavia...
August 19, 1991: several Soviet anti-communist groups and Red Army deserters storm a Politburo meeting, arresting Gorbachev and most of the others.
August 20, 1991: In the largest mass Execution in history Gorbachev and 499 other Party officials were publicly hanged at 12 noon Moscow time for crimes against Humanity.
August 21,1991: Top leaders in the "19 August Revolution" Declare the USSR dissolved. Also on this day, General Gennady Yanayev, Chairman of the Soviet Defense Council proclaims representation of the "true government of the Soviet peoples..."
August 22nd, 1991: President George H.W. Bush condemns the "19 August Revolution" as an "act of terrorism" during a televised speech in Washington D.C.,...
August 25th, 1991: CIA Director William Webster briefs President George H.W. Bush that the danger lies in a "nuclear civil war" within the Soviet Union, between those supporting the Communists and those supporting the "19 August Revolution"....
August 28th, 1991: Spetsnaz forces seize control of the Politburo, killing leaders of the "19 August Revolution" in Moscow, USSR...
September 3rd, 1991: General Gennady Yanayev, launches a televised vowing to "bring to justice the butchers of Moscow" during a televised speech from an undisclosed military base. U.N. officials estimate c. 3,126,424 people in Moscow (9/1) have been killed by the rebels in the worst act of international terrorism.
September 4th, 1991: President George H.W. Bush calls upon the international community to condemn the actions of the "19 August Revolution". The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes Resolution #1518 condemning the actions of the rebels.
September 9th, 1991: Jewish leaders celebrating Rosh Hashanah, condemn the "butchers of Moscow" as the perpetrators of a "New Holocaust" during a speech in Leningrad,...
September 13th 1991 - As George Bush is barred from running for President in the 1992 election due to the 22nd Amendment, Vice President Robert Dole announces his Presidential campaign.
September 18th, 1991: Triad boss Cheung Chi Keung establishes himself as a political boss in Guangzhou, China,...
October 21st, 1991: Baćin Massacre; Serbian troops massacre every villager in Baćin, Croatia ...
November 1st 1991- The Longest Running Romance Comedy Show Plumbers Don't Wear Ties" is given its First Movie. The show, orginating in the 1989 Pilot on NBC staring Jeanne Basone as Jane is showing her exploits, such as her and John (Edward J. Foster) and the Narrator Harry Armis and the dreaded boss Thresher (Paul Bokor). At first, the show is considered to be a horrible idea, but amazingly, nearly 72 Million Viewers watch the Premiere Episode (In no short part due to a movement in the Grunge and Neo Miami Vice Movement), which famously had Jane and John nearly being involved in a Job Interview/Rape/Killing/Chase/Price Is Right Bidding for Jane against Thresher. The Uncensored Version of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties can be found in a select infamous moment here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtDGJxMKm64). After the 1st episode, the Show was given a 3 Year Contract extension, which included many famous episodes in the first 13 Episodes such As the Following:
-Harry Armis vs. Chicago Senator and host of Oprah: Oprah Winfrey for the control of the story
-Harry Armis bickering at you while Tom Brokaw announces that "The Claw" has died
-Thresher trying to have his way with Jane
- John trying to have his way with Jane
-Pop Music Sensation Michael Jackson famously appearing when to his tune "Billie Jean" bids on Jane for $5 Billion.
This show has even spawned the highest grossing Video Game of All Time on the SNES with 117 Million Buys.
November 1st, 1991: Kuomingtang boss Yip Kai-foon is ruled innocent of charges of extortion and racketeering in Shanghai, despite video evidence...
November 4, 1991: 9 nuclear warheads go missing. Soviet General Gennady Yanayev calls President George H.W. Bush about the missing nukes.
November 5, 1991: the nuclear terror strikein Moscow in fact does the opposite of the revolutionaries intention. It galvanizes communists across asia, leading to a severe backlash against the revolutionaries. In Pravda in an anonymous interview on revolutionary, "I was for revolution and the end of the Ussr until my supposed comrades used a nuke in Moscow to destroy the kremlin and thousands of civilians. I re-enlisted, I will serve in the Soviet army with honor, even if I wind up going to Afghanistan"
November 6th 1991 - Senator Arlen Specter announces he will challenge the Vice President for the Republican nomination
November 10, 1991: "19 August" reveals anarchist connections and says it will strike all over the world with the Nukes they stole.
November 18,1991: Nuclear explosions rock New York, Tokyo, London, Los Angles, Washington, Berlin, Paris, Toronto, and Mecca.
November 20th, 1991: Vukovar Massacre; Croatian and Serbian guerillas launch a brutal ethnic campaign against each other in the confusion caused the nuclear incidents...
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January 1, 1992: General Gennady Yanaydev Requests help from President Bush and NATO to secure the Soviet nuclear arsenal. Both Agree to put aside their differences in order to combat the threat of Global terror posed by 19 August and other groups.
January 6th 1992- GTA Vice City Stories, a movie ends up released in theaters. Noted as a prequel from 1984, the movie stars healthy Left Fielder for the Yankees Bo Jackson as Victor Vance. (Same Story as OTL)
January 9th-18th, 1992: Soviet military forces launch raids against rebels in Kizlyar, Pervomayskoye and Sovetskoye, Dagestan...
February 5th, 1992: Muslim guerillas bomb a bus carrying government workers in Urumqi, Xinjiang, demanding independence for the region...
February 9th 1992 - Clinton and Dole win the Iowa caucuses
March 1st 1992 - After successive defeats, both Bob Kerrey and Arlen Specter withdraw from the race. Dole becomes the presumptive GOP nominee
April 14th 1992 - After a bitter primary campaign, Governor Bill Clinton becomes the presumptive Democratic nominee
May 13th, 1992: Li Hongzhi leads rally in Changchun, calling for an end to the monopoly of power held by the Kuomingtang,...
November 3, 1992: Bob Dole Defeats Bill Clinton 300-238.
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July 29th, 1993: Soviet troops capture "19 August" forces, after detecting a nuclear radiation signal in Andreevan Guba naval base, Russia, USSR,...
October 9th, 1993: Soviet troops capture "19 August" forces led by Ivan Smirnov as they attempt to detonate a nuclear weapon in Podolsk, Russia, USSR
November 27th, 1993: "19 August" guerillas led by Aleksei Tikhomirov and Oleg Baranov are captured at Sevmorput naval base, Russia, USSR....
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February 13th, 1994: Christina Klein is arrested in Berlin, Germany after attempting to detonate a nuclear weapon...
May 6th, 1994: Adolf Jaekle is arrested in Frankfurt, Germany on charges of arms sales to Neo-Nazi militias, he is released after reporting the transport of a "19 August" weapon into Germany....
September 6th-14th, 1994: "19 August" rebels launch a series bombings against civilians in Buinaksk, and Volgodonsk, USSR, killing 38 people...
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July 4, 1996: The US and USSR agree to a treaty to eliminate all ICBM missiles by January 1, 2006 and reduce stockpiles to 500 bombs each not to exceed 5 MT. The treaty is ratified by the Senate 89-10. General yanaydev and President Dole both receive The 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
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