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 **IOTL**: Cleveland, who was also willing to outbid the competition and has several ties to rock n'roll history, got the Hall. The criteria was and still is 25 years after the first album - meaning the Beatles had to wait until 1988.
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+AIDS patient Ryan White, 13, to return to Western ‎Middle School despite the objections of nearly fifty teachers and ‎over a hundred parents. White, a hemophiliac, had contracted ‎AIDS through a contaminated blood transfusion. Although his ‎doctors predicted that he had just six months to live, Ryan White ‎would survive until June 23, 1990 – two weeks after graduating ‎from Western High School.
-Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", was lynched by a mob, a huge factor in the rise of vigilantism  in the US.
+**IOTL**: White was excluded from school, and died in April, never graduating.
-**IOTL**: Ramirez was beaten by the mob, but taken to prison, where he died in 2013 of a lymphoma.
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-Fearing for her life, Dian Fossey began keeping her handgun loaded with ammunition for protection. In December 1985, she fired at two assailants who tried to kill her in her sleep, wounding one and driving both to flee. After the attack, Fossey reluctantly returned to the United States where she would establish the Ape Defense Fund in collaboration with author Douglas Adams and biologist Richard Dawkins. (Some have noted that the acronym ADF also corresponds to Adams-Dawkins-Fossey.) The ADF was at the center of the ape rights movement and controversy of the late 1980s.
+A War on Satanism, driven by among other things accusations of backmasking of satanic messages in rock music (including "Hotel California", as [[timelines:politics_dirty_laundry|its singer\lyricist Don Henley is now a Congressman]]), and the Meese Commission extending its investigation to "porn rock" with devilish messages, explodes once Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker", is lynched by a mob. This is a huge factor in the rise of vigilantism  in the US.
-**IOTL**: Fossey was killed in said attack. Adams, a staunch supporter of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund as well as an avid naturalist, hooked up with zoologist Mark Carwardine in 1986 and developed what would become //Last Chance to See//. He kept a close relationship with Dawkins until his death.
+**IOTL**: The "Satanic Panic" wasn't as severe. The Meese Report was just a comprehensive investigation into pornography, helped by the fact questionable music was discussed in the Congress by the Parents Music Resource Center - which never exists ITTL as [[timelines:music_dirty_laundry|Prince's career ending]] never leads to Tipper Gore listening to "Darling Nikki". Ramirez was beaten by the mob, but taken to prison, where he died in 2013 of a lymphoma.
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 **IOTL**: Claremont remained in Marvel writing X-Men comics until his departure from the company in 1991. 1986 saw a Punisher miniseries by Steven Grant and Mike Zeck,  which was followed in 1987 by //The Punisher//, initially by writer Mike Baron and artist Klaus Janson, which ran 104 issues (July 1987 – July 1995)  and had  two spin-offs, //The Punisher War Journal// (1988 –1995) and //The Punisher War Zone// (1992 – 1995). Frank Castle has appeared in three theatrical films of questionable quality, with one of his portrayers, Thomas Jane, also playing the Punisher in the short film //Dirty Laundry//. //Year One// tells Batman's origins, but Gordon is still a friend.
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+Fearing for her life, Dian Fossey began keeping her handgun loaded with ammunition for protection. In December 1985, she fired at two assailants who tried to kill her in her sleep, wounding one and driving both to flee. After the attack, Fossey reluctantly returned to the United States where she would establish the Ape Defense Fund in collaboration with author Douglas Adams and biologist Richard Dawkins. (Some have noted that the acronym ADF also corresponds to Adams-Dawkins-Fossey.) The ADF was at the center of the ape rights movement and controversy of the late 1980s.
+**IOTL**: Fossey was killed in said attack. Adams, a staunch supporter of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund as well as an avid naturalist, hooked up with zoologist Mark Carwardine in 1986 and developed what would become //Last Chance to See//. He kept a close relationship with Dawkins until his death.
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-Coca-Cola was a huge casualty of the Cola Wars. Trying to counter Pepsi, who even Atlanta golden boy Evander Holyfield in their ads, Coke gradually changes their formula to a "New Coke" tasting closer to the opponents.  Pepsi managed to track down a Coke loyalist (Mullins) who had saved ‎ten years’ worth of sealed cans and bottles of Coke as part of a pop culture collection, and convinced him to be the plaintiff in a false advertisment lawsuit. With uncontested proof, Coke loses and America turns on them, who in two years go from 50% of the soft drink market to just 11%. A teary Bill Cosby apologizes for being used in the New Coke ads, and Pepsi is even preparing to grow further with “Pepsi Supreme,” an even-sweeter reformulation of the regular drink.
+Coca-Cola was a huge casualty of the Cola Wars. Trying to counter Pepsi, who even have Atlanta golden boy Evander Holyfield in their ads, Coke gradually changes their formula to a "New Coke" tasting closer to the opponents.  Pepsi managed to track down a Coke loyalist (Mullins) who had saved ‎ten years’ worth of sealed cans and bottles of Coke as part of a pop culture collection, and convinced him to be the plaintiff in a false advertisment lawsuit. With uncontested proof, Coke loses and America turns on them, who in two years go from 50% of the soft drink market to just 11%. A teary Bill Cosby apologizes for being used in the New Coke ads, and Pepsi is even preparing to grow further with “Pepsi Supreme,” an even-sweeter reformulation of the regular drink. The company also thrives with Slice, creating a new market for sodas with fruit juice.
-**IOTL**: New Coke replaced the regular formula right away, facing resistance and lasting for only 77 days before the original's reintroduction as "Coca-Cola Classic", which resulted in a significant gain in sales. Gay Mullins, a Seattle retiree looking to start a public relations firm with $120,000 of borrowed money, formed the organization Old Cola Drinkers of America on May 28 to lobby Coca-Cola to either reintroduce the old formula or sell it to someone else. His organization eventually received over 60,000 phone calls. He also filed a class action lawsuit against the company, which was quickly dismissed by a judge who said he preferred the taste of Pepsi. Cosby also left Coke claiming the fiasco damaged his credibility, while Holyfield's Pepsi ads were only in the 1990s.
+**IOTL**: New Coke replaced the regular formula right away, facing resistance and lasting for only 77 days before the original's reintroduction as "Coca-Cola Classic", which resulted in a significant gain in sales. Gay Mullins, a Seattle retiree looking to start a public relations firm with $120,000 of borrowed money, formed the organization Old Cola Drinkers of America on May 28 to lobby Coca-Cola to either reintroduce the old formula or sell it to someone else. His organization eventually received over 60,000 phone calls. He also filed a class action lawsuit against the company, which was quickly dismissed by a judge who said he preferred the taste of Pepsi. Cosby also left Coke claiming the fiasco damaged his credibility, while Holyfield's Pepsi ads were only in the 1990s. Slice was successful upon release in 1986, but stagnated by 1988.
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 Between April and May 1986, suspicions are raised that the Soviet Union did an unlicensed nuclear test in Belarus, until colonel Anatoli Kushnin defects to the United States and releases info that leads the Kremlin to publicly reveal that there was an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (neighbor to Belarus) on April 26, one of the worst nuclear disasters along with another one in the USSR, Kyshtym in 1957.
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 **IOTL**: When the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) was introduced in 1990 by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Chernobyl was the only one at Level 7: Major accident, with Kyshtym  as Level 6 (the only other Level 7 was Fukushima in 2011). The radioactive levels were so elevated that their spread across Europe couldn't be covered up by the Soviet Union. Kushnin remained in the fire containment and rescue operations near the power plant until May.
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+Even if [[timelines:sports_dirty_laundry|//Family Ties// is cancelled early]], Judith Barsi, who played the adoptive daughter of Elyse Keaton, ends up due to her steady work being rescued by Child Protective Services from an abusive upbringing at the hands of father Jozsef, being still alive by the 2010s.
+**IOTL**: The one time Barsi's mother Maria tried to denounce Jozsef for threats and physical violence against herself and her daughter, it was discarded for lack of evidence, and two years later as a psychologist diagnosed Barsi with physical and emotional abuse, the CPS investigation was dropped once Maria said she was divorcing Jozsef and would move away from him. Before she could do so, Jozsef killed both (Judith being only 10) before shooting himself, with Barsi leaving behind posthumous voice roles in //All Dogs Go to Heaven// and //The Land Before Time//.