That was my thought as to why the coups were continuing, and eventually succeeding in the ATL. Both sides were unwilling to allow the possibility of more pieces of the chessboard from falling...
Wow! Alien Signal Confirmed: A Collaborative TL
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Here are some PODs to show that the history of drugs is slightly different in the ATL:
September 29th, 1978: General Edmundo Meneses seizes control of the government in a military coup in Managua, Nicaragua...
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....
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...
January 23rd, 1982: Carlos Cabezas begins trafficking cocaine from Nicaragua into San Francisco, Caifornia through SFO International Airport....
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 5th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses begins using San Francisco, California as the main center of the cocaine trade in North America....
June 4th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses leads a political rally for Adolfo Calero in the Mission District of San Francisco, California....
November 26th, 1984: Jairo Meneses is arrested for assault and battery during a rally at the University of California at Berkeley....
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....
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...
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 8th, 1989: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses is arrested by a joint task force of DEA and FBI agents in San Francisco....
September 29th, 1978: General Edmundo Meneses seizes control of the government in a military coup in Managua, Nicaragua...
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....
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...
January 23rd, 1982: Carlos Cabezas begins trafficking cocaine from Nicaragua into San Francisco, Caifornia through SFO International Airport....
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 5th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses begins using San Francisco, California as the main center of the cocaine trade in North America....
June 4th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses leads a political rally for Adolfo Calero in the Mission District of San Francisco, California....
November 26th, 1984: Jairo Meneses is arrested for assault and battery during a rally at the University of California at Berkeley....
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....
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...
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 8th, 1989: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses is arrested by a joint task force of DEA and FBI agents in San Francisco....
Any thoughts as to what other pop culture twists will be made in the ATL? If anything, I am still waiting for any more Star Trek or Star Wars PODs. The stranger, the better!!!
Here are a few PODs that should show how strange pop culture has become:
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,...."
Octobr 31st, 1982: Wayne Aho proclaims UFO landings, during the Halloween episode of Real People (NBC-TV)....
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 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....
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..."
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..."
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..."
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...
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,...."
Octobr 31st, 1982: Wayne Aho proclaims UFO landings, during the Halloween episode of Real People (NBC-TV)....
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 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....
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..."
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..."
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..."
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...
Here are some PODs for China and Vietnam, which should explain how things are different in Asia:
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...
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....
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.,...
September 8th, 1987: Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping announces the withdrawal of Chinese PLA troops from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure...
February 15th- May 16th, 1988: Chinese troops begin their withdrawal from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure,....
August 15th- November 15th, 1988: Second phase of withdrawal of Chinese PLA forces from Vietnam is initiated, amidst heavy international pressure...
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...
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....
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.,...
September 8th, 1987: Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping announces the withdrawal of Chinese PLA troops from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure...
February 15th- May 16th, 1988: Chinese troops begin their withdrawal from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure,....
August 15th- November 15th, 1988: Second phase of withdrawal of Chinese PLA forces from Vietnam is initiated, amidst heavy international pressure...
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.
June 22, 2002: Senegal wins after El-Hadji Diouf scores a Golden Goal in the 91th minute of extra time.
July 3, 2010: Ghanas Asamoah Gyan scores the penalty shot in the 120th minute and advances to the semifinal.
July 3, 2010: Ghanas Asamoah Gyan scores the penalty shot in the 120th minute and advances to the semifinal.
Here is the fourth 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".
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....
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....
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...
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...
May 1st 1978: Shah Reza Pahlvani announces extensive political reforms, hoping to stop protests against his regime...
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.
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.."
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. 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....
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 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 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 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 28, 1979: Three Mile Island suffers a complete nuclear meltdown.
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 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 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.,...
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....
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 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...
January 8, 1981: Several Southern Democrats defect and narrowly elect Republican Vice Presidential nominee John Connally Vice President of the United States.
March 30, 1981: John Hinckley, Jr. assassinates President James Earl Carter, Jr (Democratic). Vice President John Connally (Republican) succeeds to the Presidency, amid protests.
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 30th, 1981: Major General Abul Monjur overthrows the government with a military coup in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sparking tensions throughout the region...
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....
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"...
January 23rd, 1982: Carlos Cabezas begins trafficking cocaine from Nicaragua into San Francisco, Caifornia through SFO International Airport....
March 24th, 1982: Abdus Sattar is named acting president after protests overthrow the military regime in Chittagong, Bangladesh....
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,...."
August 1st, 1982: Government of President David Arap Moi is overthrown in a military coup led by General Hezekiah Ochuka in Nairobi, Kenya...
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...
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....
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 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....
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...
3 July 1983: The first sub orbital test flight of a full scale mock up of the Soviet Buran shuttle is tested.
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 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....
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 14th, 1984: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, is assassinated by members of the Ulster Freeom Fighters (UFF) in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
June 4th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses leads a political rally for Adolfo Calero in the Mission District of San Francisco, California....
October 12th, 1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is assassinated in Brighton, England by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)....
October 31st, 1984: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi survives an assassination by Sikh guards in New Delhi, India, sparking sectarian violence nationwide...
November 26th, 1984: Jairo Meneses is arrested for assault and battery during a rally at the University of California at Berkeley....
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 15th, 1985: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) accounts for 92% of all erectile-dysfunction drugs according to WHO/CDC officials in Atlanta, Georgia....
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...
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 27th, 1985: Primatologist Dian Fossey holds a press conference in Cambridge, England accusing the government in Kigali, Rwanda of attempting to assassinate her....
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 26, 1986: Due to the unqualified staff having been fired in January, the Chernobyl disaster in Pripyat, Ukraine SSR is averted.
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...
August 9, 1987: The Stendal NPP is completed and operational.
September 8th, 1987: Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping announces the withdrawal of Chinese PLA troops from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure...
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.
February 15th- May 16th, 1988: Chinese troops begin their withdrawal from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure,....
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...
August 15th- November 15th, 1988: Second phase of withdrawal of Chinese PLA forces from Vietnam is initiated, amidst heavy international pressure...
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...
1 October 1988: Soviet Shuttle Ptichka completes an unmanned first flight remaining in orbit for 36 hours.
February 8th, 1989: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses is arrested by a joint task force of DEA and FBI agents in San Francisco....
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....
June 1st, 1989: Day of the Eagle novel by Tom Clancy, proposes trans-orbital SST bombers, becoming a major bestseller....
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),...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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..."
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....
3 June 1991: Shuttle Buran conducts its second unmanned flight lasting 16 days were it successfully docked with a a Soyuz crew transport.
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..."
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 12th, 1991: Outbreak of AIDS/HIV is blamed on widespread use of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) in Los Angeles, California...
December 22nd, 1991-January 6th, 1992: Tblisi Uprising; Zviad Gamsakhurdia leads an armed insurrection against the Soviet Union in Tblisi, Georgia SSR....
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...
February 11th, 1992: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) is approved for over the counter sales by the Ministry of Health in London, England...
December 15th-28th, 1992: General Dzhokhar Dudayev launches an Islamic fundamentalist uprising in Tblisi, Georgia SSR...
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.
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....
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....
March 23rd, 1994: Presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio survives an assassination attempt in Mexico City, Mexico....
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"....
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...
January 20th, 1995: Police officials report smuggling of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
March 13th, 1995: Azerbaijani Uprising; General Rovshan Javadov launches an uprising against the Soviet government in Baku, calling for national independence...
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..."
October 18th, 1995: Soviet officials announce that a "socialist market economy" is the goal of reforms in Moscow....
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..."
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...
July 8th, 1997: Pat Robertson posits that UFOs are actually demonic in origin and suggests enthusiasts be stoned...
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...
May 20th, 1997: Criminal syndicates begin the sale and trade of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) throughout Sweden...
December 15th, 1997: Space Moose (TV-MA) is approved for broadcast on The Comedy Channel...
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.
September 28th, 1998: Albanian Uprising; Fatos Nano leads pro-democracy uprising in Tirana, Albania, sparking fears of a Soviet crackdown...
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...
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.
December 30th, 1999: Former Beatles member George Harrison is killed by celebrity stalker Michael Abram in Friar Park, England...
July 4th, 2001: Space Moose: Millennium Moose is released in theaters, proving to be a sleeper hit...
April 11th, 2002: American-backed pro-democracy revolution led by Pedro Carmona, overthrows the government in Caracas, Venezuela....
June 22, 2002: Senegal wins after El-Hadji Diouf scores a Golden Goal in the 91st minute of extra time.
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 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.
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".
November 11th, 2004: Soviet Union becomes a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after trade talks in Paris, France....
May 7, 2005: The BASF main production plant in Ludwigshafen is attacked.
May 9, 2005: The NNSB (Neue Naturschutz-Bewegung) declares itself responsible.
March 13th, 2006: President Idriss Déby is overthrown in a military coup by brothers Tom and Timane Erdimi in N'Djamena, Chad...
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.
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 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 27th, 2007: Martial law is declared in Ankara, Turkey after military officials block election results showing Abdullah Gül as the winner of presidential elections...
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....
June 21st, 2007: Soviet Union announces that it will be joining the European Economic Community (EEC) during trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland....
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.
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".
March 7, 2008: The "Atomausstiegsgesetz", ratified in early 2007, gets fully repealed with the votes of CDU, FDP, CSU and KAP.
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.
February 18th, 2010: Chef d'escadron Salou Djibo overthrows the government in Lagos, Nigeria in a military coup....
March 5th, 2010: Soviet officials warn "Soviet economic growth is unsteady, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable..." during a speech in Moscow, sparking economic fears worldwide...
July 3, 2010: Ghana's Asamoah Gyan scores the penalty shot in the 120th minute and advances to the semifinal.
July 7, 2012: Rafael Verthongen, Volkert van der Graaf and Peter Breitner are found conspiring in Meppen (Northern Germany). The police arrests the three as leaders of eco-Terrorism.
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".
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....
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....
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...
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...
May 1st 1978: Shah Reza Pahlvani announces extensive political reforms, hoping to stop protests against his regime...
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.
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.."
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. 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....
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 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 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 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 28, 1979: Three Mile Island suffers a complete nuclear meltdown.
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 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 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.,...
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....
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 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...
January 8, 1981: Several Southern Democrats defect and narrowly elect Republican Vice Presidential nominee John Connally Vice President of the United States.
March 30, 1981: John Hinckley, Jr. assassinates President James Earl Carter, Jr (Democratic). Vice President John Connally (Republican) succeeds to the Presidency, amid protests.
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 30th, 1981: Major General Abul Monjur overthrows the government with a military coup in Chittagong, Bangladesh, sparking tensions throughout the region...
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....
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"...
January 23rd, 1982: Carlos Cabezas begins trafficking cocaine from Nicaragua into San Francisco, Caifornia through SFO International Airport....
March 24th, 1982: Abdus Sattar is named acting president after protests overthrow the military regime in Chittagong, Bangladesh....
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,...."
August 1st, 1982: Government of President David Arap Moi is overthrown in a military coup led by General Hezekiah Ochuka in Nairobi, Kenya...
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...
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....
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 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....
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...
3 July 1983: The first sub orbital test flight of a full scale mock up of the Soviet Buran shuttle is tested.
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 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....
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 14th, 1984: Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, is assassinated by members of the Ulster Freeom Fighters (UFF) in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
June 4th, 1984: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses leads a political rally for Adolfo Calero in the Mission District of San Francisco, California....
October 12th, 1984: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is assassinated in Brighton, England by members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA)....
October 31st, 1984: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi survives an assassination by Sikh guards in New Delhi, India, sparking sectarian violence nationwide...
November 26th, 1984: Jairo Meneses is arrested for assault and battery during a rally at the University of California at Berkeley....
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 15th, 1985: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) accounts for 92% of all erectile-dysfunction drugs according to WHO/CDC officials in Atlanta, Georgia....
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...
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 27th, 1985: Primatologist Dian Fossey holds a press conference in Cambridge, England accusing the government in Kigali, Rwanda of attempting to assassinate her....
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 26, 1986: Due to the unqualified staff having been fired in January, the Chernobyl disaster in Pripyat, Ukraine SSR is averted.
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...
August 9, 1987: The Stendal NPP is completed and operational.
September 8th, 1987: Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping announces the withdrawal of Chinese PLA troops from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure...
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.
February 15th- May 16th, 1988: Chinese troops begin their withdrawal from Vietnam, amidst heavy international pressure,....
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...
August 15th- November 15th, 1988: Second phase of withdrawal of Chinese PLA forces from Vietnam is initiated, amidst heavy international pressure...
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...
1 October 1988: Soviet Shuttle Ptichka completes an unmanned first flight remaining in orbit for 36 hours.
February 8th, 1989: Nicaraguan crime lord Norwin Meneses is arrested by a joint task force of DEA and FBI agents in San Francisco....
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....
June 1st, 1989: Day of the Eagle novel by Tom Clancy, proposes trans-orbital SST bombers, becoming a major bestseller....
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),...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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..."
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....
3 June 1991: Shuttle Buran conducts its second unmanned flight lasting 16 days were it successfully docked with a a Soyuz crew transport.
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..."
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 12th, 1991: Outbreak of AIDS/HIV is blamed on widespread use of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) in Los Angeles, California...
December 22nd, 1991-January 6th, 1992: Tblisi Uprising; Zviad Gamsakhurdia leads an armed insurrection against the Soviet Union in Tblisi, Georgia SSR....
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...
February 11th, 1992: "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) is approved for over the counter sales by the Ministry of Health in London, England...
December 15th-28th, 1992: General Dzhokhar Dudayev launches an Islamic fundamentalist uprising in Tblisi, Georgia SSR...
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.
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....
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....
March 23rd, 1994: Presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio survives an assassination attempt in Mexico City, Mexico....
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"....
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...
January 20th, 1995: Police officials report smuggling of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....
March 13th, 1995: Azerbaijani Uprising; General Rovshan Javadov launches an uprising against the Soviet government in Baku, calling for national independence...
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..."
October 18th, 1995: Soviet officials announce that a "socialist market economy" is the goal of reforms in Moscow....
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..."
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...
July 8th, 1997: Pat Robertson posits that UFOs are actually demonic in origin and suggests enthusiasts be stoned...
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...
May 20th, 1997: Criminal syndicates begin the sale and trade of "Revatio" (a.k.a. Sildenafil) throughout Sweden...
December 15th, 1997: Space Moose (TV-MA) is approved for broadcast on The Comedy Channel...
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.
September 28th, 1998: Albanian Uprising; Fatos Nano leads pro-democracy uprising in Tirana, Albania, sparking fears of a Soviet crackdown...
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...
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.
December 30th, 1999: Former Beatles member George Harrison is killed by celebrity stalker Michael Abram in Friar Park, England...
July 4th, 2001: Space Moose: Millennium Moose is released in theaters, proving to be a sleeper hit...
April 11th, 2002: American-backed pro-democracy revolution led by Pedro Carmona, overthrows the government in Caracas, Venezuela....
June 22, 2002: Senegal wins after El-Hadji Diouf scores a Golden Goal in the 91st minute of extra time.
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 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.
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".
November 11th, 2004: Soviet Union becomes a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) after trade talks in Paris, France....
May 7, 2005: The BASF main production plant in Ludwigshafen is attacked.
May 9, 2005: The NNSB (Neue Naturschutz-Bewegung) declares itself responsible.
March 13th, 2006: President Idriss Déby is overthrown in a military coup by brothers Tom and Timane Erdimi in N'Djamena, Chad...
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.
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 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 27th, 2007: Martial law is declared in Ankara, Turkey after military officials block election results showing Abdullah Gül as the winner of presidential elections...
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....
June 21st, 2007: Soviet Union announces that it will be joining the European Economic Community (EEC) during trade talks in Geneva, Switzerland....
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.
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".
March 7, 2008: The "Atomausstiegsgesetz", ratified in early 2007, gets fully repealed with the votes of CDU, FDP, CSU and KAP.
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.
February 18th, 2010: Chef d'escadron Salou Djibo overthrows the government in Lagos, Nigeria in a military coup....
March 5th, 2010: Soviet officials warn "Soviet economic growth is unsteady, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable..." during a speech in Moscow, sparking economic fears worldwide...
July 3, 2010: Ghana's Asamoah Gyan scores the penalty shot in the 120th minute and advances to the semifinal.
July 7, 2012: Rafael Verthongen, Volkert van der Graaf and Peter Breitner are found conspiring in Meppen (Northern Germany). The police arrests the three as leaders of eco-Terrorism.
One thing's for sure. The ATL certainly has a more international feel than most TLs. Thanks for the PODs....
Any thoughts as to who the British Prime Ministers are? Margaret Thatcher got killed in 1984 in the TL. Also in 2008, Great Britain suffers a nuclear meltdown caused by terrorists...Needs more British stuffI want to see what happens with sea dragon
So who are the American Presidents besides Jimmy Carter and John Connelly? This only answers only the question of who is in the White House up until 1984/1988.
Also, what has happened to pop culture in the ATL?
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 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...
April 25th, 2010: Stephen Hawking warns that extraterrestrial contact could be a "risky", during a lecture at Cambridge University, England.....
June 10th, 2011: California Space Authority (CSA) is unveiled in Santa Barbara, California, sparking international attention as a spaceport....
March 23rd, 2012: New Mexico Spaceport Authority is established in Doña Ana, New Mexico with Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic as one of the main sponsors...
Also, what has happened to pop culture in the ATL?
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 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...
April 25th, 2010: Stephen Hawking warns that extraterrestrial contact could be a "risky", during a lecture at Cambridge University, England.....
June 10th, 2011: California Space Authority (CSA) is unveiled in Santa Barbara, California, sparking international attention as a spaceport....
March 23rd, 2012: New Mexico Spaceport Authority is established in Doña Ana, New Mexico with Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic as one of the main sponsors...
Here are a few PODs based on actual quotes:
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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...
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...
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..."
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..."
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..."
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..."
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...
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...
Does anyone have any requests for who should win the presidential elections of the ATL? If anything , the U.S. presidential elections from 1984 until 2012 are completely free...
Godzilla movies so far
I kept the series the same until 1992 with minor changes in the films before hand. Okay I'll get some more later.
The list is as follows:
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.
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 the eating scene.
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 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 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.
(You can edit these down if you wish.)
I kept the series the same until 1992 with minor changes in the films before hand. Okay I'll get some more later.
The list is as follows:
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.
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 the eating scene.
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 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 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.
(You can edit these down if you wish.)
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Considering that most film presidents are supposed to be analogues to known presidential candidates or personalities, can we guess that in 1988 or 1992, we have George H. W. Bush elected?